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adjective, sad·der, sad·dest.
1.
affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful: to feel sad because a close friend has moved away.
2.
expressive of or characterized by sorrow: sad looks; a sad song.
3.
causing sorrow: a sad disappointment; sad news.
4.
(of color) somber, dark, or dull; drab.
5.
deplorably bad; sorry: a sad attempt.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English sæd grave, heavy, weary, orig. sated, full; cognate with German satt, Gothic saths full, satisfied; akin to Latin satis enough, satur sated, Greek hádēn enough. See satiate, saturate
before 1000; Middle English; Old English sæd grave, heavy, weary, orig. sated, full; cognate with German satt, Gothic saths full, satisfied; akin to Latin satis enough, satur sated, Greek hádēn enough. See satiate, saturate
Related forms
sad·ly, adverb
sad·ness, noun
Synonyms
1. unhappy, despondent, disconsolate, discouraged, gloomy, downcast, downhearted, depressed, dejected, melancholy.
1. unhappy, despondent, disconsolate, discouraged, gloomy, downcast, downhearted, depressed, dejected, melancholy.
Antonyms
1. happy.
1. happy.
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World English Dictionary
sad (sæd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj , sadder, saddest | |
| 1. | feeling sorrow; unhappy |
| 2. | causing, suggestive, or expressive of such feelings: a sad story |
| 3. | unfortunate; unsatisfactory; shabby; deplorable: her clothes were in a sad state |
| 4. | informal (Brit) ludicrously contemptible; pathetic: he's a sad, boring little wimp |
| 5. | (of pastry, cakes, etc) not having risen fully; heavy |
| 6. | (of a colour) lacking brightness; dull or dark |
| 7. | archaic serious; grave |
| —vb | |
| 8. | (NZ) to express sadness or displeasure strongly |
| [Old English sæd weary; related to Old Norse sathr, Gothic saths, Latin satur, satis enough] | |
| 'sadly | |
| —adv | |
| 'sadness | |
| —n | |
| sad (sæd) | |
| —adj , sadder, saddest | |
| 1. | feeling sorrow; unhappy |
| 2. | causing, suggestive, or expressive of such feelings: a sad story |
| 3. | unfortunate; unsatisfactory; shabby; deplorable: her clothes were in a sad state |
| 4. | informal (Brit) ludicrously contemptible; pathetic: he's a sad, boring little wimp |
| 5. | (of pastry, cakes, etc) not having risen fully; heavy |
| 6. | (of a colour) lacking brightness; dull or dark |
| 7. | archaic serious; grave |
| —vb | |
| 8. | (NZ) to express sadness or displeasure strongly |
| [Old English sæd weary; related to Old Norse sathr, Gothic saths, Latin satur, satis enough] | |
| 'sadly | |
| —adv | |
| 'sadness | |
| —n | |
| SAD | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| seasonal affective disorder | |
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Word Origin & History
sad
O.E. sæd "sated," from P.Gmc. *sathaz (cf. O.N. saðr, M.Du. sat, Du. zad, O.H.G. sat, Ger. satt, Goth. saþs "satiated"), from PIE *seto- (cf. L. satis "enough, sufficient," O.C.S. sytu, Lith. sotus, O.Ir. saith "satiety"), from base *sa- "satisfied" (cf. Skt. a-sinvan "insatiable"). Sense
development seems to have passed through a meaning "heavy," and "weary, tired of" before emerging c.1300 as "unhappy." An alternative course would be through "steadfast, firm," and "serious" to "grave." In the main modern sense, it replaced O.E. unrot, negative of rot "cheerful, glad." Slang sense of "inferior, pathetic" is from 1899; sad sack is 1920s, popularized by World War II armed forces (specifically by cartoon character invented by Sgt. George Baker, 1942, and published in U.S. Armed Forces magazine "Yank"), probably a euphemistic shortening of common military slang phrase sad sack of shit. The verb sadden "to make sorrowful" is from 1600; earlier form was sade, from O.E. sadian.
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Medical Dictionary
SAD abbr.
seasonal affective disorder
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Slang Dictionary
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
| SAD seasonal affective disorder |
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Example sentences
Most psychotherapists would agree that depression is anger and sadness that has been repressed.
Sadness is an emotion, and depression is an illness.
Yet its down-turned eyes and deeply lined face seem to suggest an inner sadness.
No words could describe either the beauty of the place, nor the profound sadness of the moment.
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