Sad

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Affected or characterized by sorrow or unhappiness.
  • adj. Expressive of sorrow or unhappiness.
  • adj. Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing: a sad movie; sad news.
  • adj. Deplorable; sorry: a sad state of affairs; a sad excuse.
  • adj. Dark-hued; somber.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
  • adj. Steadfast, valiant.
  • adj. Dignified, serious, grave.
  • adj. Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
  • adj. Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
  • adj. Appearing sorrowful.
  • adj. Causing sorrow; lamentable.
  • adj. Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
  • adj. Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
  • adj. soggy (to refer to pastries).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Sated; satisfied; weary; tired.
  • adj. Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.
  • adj. Dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors.
  • adj. Serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous.
  • adj. Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.
  • adj. Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow.
  • adj. Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked.
  • v. To make sorrowful; to sadden.
  • n. Seasonal affective disorder.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Full; having had one's fill; sated; surfeited; hence, satiated; wearied; tired; sick.
  • Heavy; weighty; ponderous.
  • Firm; solid; fixed.
  • Close; compact; hard; stiff; not light or soft.
  • Heavy; soggy; doughy; that has not risen well: as, sad bread.
  • Weighty; important; momentous.
  • Strong; stout: said of a person or an animal.
  • Settled; fixed; resolute.
  • Steadfast; constant; trusty; faithful.
  • Sober; serious; grave; sedate; discreet; responsible; wise; sage.
  • Sorrowful; melancholy; mournful; dejected.
  • Expressing or marked by sorrow or melancholy.
  • Having the external appearance of sorrow; gloomy; downcast: as, a sad countenance.
  • Distressing; grievous; disastrous: as, a sad accident; a sad disappointment.
  • Troublesome; trying; bad; wicked: sometimes used jocularly: as, a sad grumbler; a sad rogue.
  • Dark; somber; sober; quiet: applied to color: as, a sad brown.
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  • Depressed, cheerless, desponding, disconsolate.
  • Dire, deplorable.
  • To make firm.
  • To strengthen; establish; confirm.
  • To sadden; make sorrowful; grieve.
  • Strongly; stiffly.
  • Soberly; prudently; discreetly.
  • Closely; firmly: as, to lie sad.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. bad; unfortunate
  • adj. of things that make you feel sad
  • adj. experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness
  • Equivalent
    bad    sorrowful    melancholy    doleful    heavyhearted    melancholic    tragical    mournful    wistful    tragicomical   
    Cross Reference
    distressing    lamentable    mournful    bad    dull   
    Variant
    saddest    sadder   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    calamitous    grievous    sedate    mournful    cheerless    grave    downcast    depressed    dejected    afflictive   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Brad    Chad    Dad    Gad    Mossad    Riyadh    Tad    Thad    ad    add   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    terrible    pathetic    curious    miserable    blue-skied    written    druidess    taken    lost    confin