Sad

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English

Adjective

Sad (comparative sadder, superlative saddest)

  1. (obsolete) Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
  2. (obsolete) Steadfast, valiant.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:
      And thus they strekyn forth into the stremys, many sadde hunderthes.
  3. (obsolete) Dignified, serious, grave.
    • , II.xi:
      Vprose Sir Guyon, in bright armour clad, / And to his purposd iourney him prepar'd: / With him the Palmer eke in habit sad, / Him selfe addrest to that aduenture hard [...].
  4. Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
    • 1646, Thomas Browne , Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
      this is either used crude, and called Sulphur Vive, and is of a sadder colour; or after depuration, such as we have in magdeleons of rolls, of a lighter yellow.
  5. Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
    She gets sad when he's away.
  6. Appearing sorrowful.
    The puppy had a sad little face.
  7. Causing sorrow; lamentable.
    It's a sad fact that most rapes go unreported.
    • The Great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
    • For, all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad. ―G.K. Chesterton
  8. Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
    • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.127:
      Heaven knows what cash he got, or blood he spilt, / A sad old fellow was he, if you please [...].
    That's the saddest-looking pickup truck I've ever seen.
  9. (slang) Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
    I can't believe you use drugs; you're so sad!
  10. (dialect) soggy (to refer to pastries).

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Quaker-colored, abominable, acier, affecting, afflictive, anguished, anxious, arrant, ashen, ashy, atrocious, awful, badly off, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, beneath one, bitter, blackish, blameworthy, bleak, blue, bored, brutal, canescent, cheap, cheerless, cheesy, cinereous, cinerous, comfortless, common, contemptible, creamy, crummy, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dark-colored, darkish, darksome, debasing, degrading, dejected, delicate, demeaning, deplorable, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, despicable, detestable, dingy, dire, discomforting, disgraceful, disgusted, disgusting, dismal, dismaying, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, donsie, doomful, dove-colored, dove-gray, down, downbeat, downcast, dreadful, drear, dreary, dull, dumpish, dumpy, dusk, dusky, dusty, eggshell, egregious, enormous, evil-starred, fatal, fetid, filthy, flagrant, flat, fortuneless, foul, fulsome, funereal, funest, gaudy, gimcracky, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, gloss, grave, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grieving, grievous, grim, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, gross, gutter, hapless, hateful, heavy, heavyhearted, heinous, horrible, horrid, humiliating, humiliative, ill off, ill-starred, in adverse circumstances, inauspicious, infamous, infra dig, infra indignitatem, iridescent, iron-gray, joyless, laden with sorrow, lamentable, lead-gray, leaden, light, livid, loathsome, long-faced, lousy, luckless, mean, melancholic, melancholy, mellow, meretricious, mirthless, miserable, monstrous, morose, mother-of-pearl, mournful, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, moving, nacreous, nasty, nauseated, nauseous, nefarious, nigrescent, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, ominous, opalescent, oppressed, opprobrious, out of luck, outrageous, painful, pale, paltry, pastel, pathetic, patinaed, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, planet-struck, pleasureless, poignant, poor, prey to malaise, quiet, rank, regrettable, repelled, reprehensible, repulsive, revolted, rotten, rubbishy, rueful, sad of heart, sad-eyed, sad-faced, saddened, saddening, sadhearted, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, semigloss, shabby, shameful, sharp, shocking, shoddy, short of luck, sickened, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, simple, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, soft, soft-colored, soft-hued, softened, somber, sombrous, sordid, sore, sorrowful, sorry, squalid, star-crossed, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, subdued, subtle, suffering angst, swart, swarthy, sweet, taupe, tear-jerking, tender, terrible, too bad, touching, trashy, triste, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unbecoming, unblessed, unclean, uncomfortable, underprivileged, uneasy, unfortunate, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unlucky, unprosperous, unprovidential, unquiet, unsatisfied, unworthy of one, valueless, vile, villainous, weighed upon, weighted down, woebegone, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English sæd (“sated with, weary of, satiated, filled, full”), from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated, satisfied”), from Proto-Indo-European *sā- (“to satiate, satisfy”). Cognate with Dutch zat (“sated, drunk”), German satt (“well-fed, full”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌸𐍃 (saþs, “full, satisfied”), Latin satur (“well-fed, sated”).

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feeling sorrow
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Czech

Noun

Sad m.

  1. orchard

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Danish

Verb

Sad

  1. past of sidde

Polish

Noun

Sad m.

  1. orchard

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /s̪at̪/

Declension

    declension of Sad
singular plural
nominative sad sady
genitive sadu sadów
dative sadowi sadom
accusative sad sady
instrumental sadem sadami
locative sadzie sadach
vocative sadzie sady

Scots

Adjective

Sad (comparative sadder, superlative saddest)

  1. grave, serious
  2. strange, remarkable
  3. sad

Etymology

Old English sæd.

Pronunciation

Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

sȁd (Cyrillic spelling са̏д)

  1. now
  2. currently
  3. presently

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sьda, *sьgoda.

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Slovene

Noun

sad m.

  1. fruit
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