sad
Plural: sads
Adjective
- Feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy.
- experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; ; - Christina Rossetti
- "feeling sad because his dog had died"
- "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"
Adjective Satellite
- of things that make you feel sad; ; ; ; - Christina Rossetti
- "sad news"
- "she doesn't like sad movies"
- "it was a very sad story"
- "When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me"
- bad; unfortunate
- "her clothes were in sad shape"
Adj
- Emotionally negative.
- Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
- Emotionally negative.
- Appearing sorrowful.
- Emotionally negative.
- Causing sorrow; lamentable.
- Emotionally negative.
- Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
- Emotionally negative.
- Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
- Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
- Steadfast, valiant.
- Dignified, serious, grave.
- Naughty; troublesome; wicked.
- Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
- Soggy (to refer to pastries).
- Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.
Verb
- To make melancholy; to sadden or grieve (someone).
Noun
- Alternative form of saad (“Arabic letter”).
Intj
- Expressing contempt, ridicule or disgust; bah!
Examples
- I can't believe you use drugs; you're so sad!
- It's a sad fact that most rapes go unreported.
- It’s a sad day in Scrabble when your opponent plays ’QUIZ’ and takes all the points.
- sad bread
- She gets sad when he's away.
- That's the saddest-looking pickup truck I've ever seen.
- The puppy had a sad little face.
- You’d have to be really sad to wear a shirt like that.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English sad, from Old English sæd (“satisfied, full, sated, unable to handle more, weary”), from Proto-West Germanic *sad, from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated, satisfied”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, satisfy”).
Cognate to Saterland Frisian sääd, West Frisian sêd, Dutch zat, German Low German satt, German satt.
Synonyms
deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sorry, ass, atrabiliary, atrabilious, austere, bad, base, below par, bland, blitheless, blue, broken, bum, bummed out, chapfallen, cheap, cheerless, chintzy, chopfallen, colourless, crapperific, crappo, crappy, craptabulous, craptacular, craptastic, crestfallen, crummy, cut up, damp, dark, deep, dejected, demure, depressed, depressing, despondent, dim, dingy, discomforted, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, distressed, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, dusky, earnest, elegiac, elegious, faint, flimsy, forlorn, full, fuscous, gloomy, glum, grave, grief-stricken, grieving, grievous, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, inconsolable, infelicitous, inferior, inky, intense, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymable, lachrymose, lack-laughter, lackluster, lamentful, languid, leaden, lousy, low, low-grade, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, mischievous, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, muddy, muted, passionate, pathetic, pathetisad, pitiable, pitisome, plaintive, poignant, poor, querulous, regrettable, rinky-dink, roguish, rubbish, rueful, sad, saddened, saddening, sage, saturated, saturnine, schlocky, sedate, serious, shattered, shitty, shoddy, slight, slim, sober, solemn, solemncholy, somber, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, staid, stern, subpar, substandard, sullen, swarthy, sweer, thoughtful, threnetic, threnetical, tin-pot, touching, tragic, triste, tristful, unacceptable, uncheerful, uncheery, uncolorful, uncomfortable, unconsolable, unfit, unhappy, unholiday, unlively, unsatisfactory, unsound, unsuitable, upsetting, vexatious, wan, weightsome, weighty, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched
Antonyms
glad, blissed out, blissful, cheerful, cock-a-hoop, content, decent, dejected, delighted, depressed, discontented, dissatisfied, ecstatic, elated, excited, exultant, gay, gleeful, gloomy, happy, jovial, joyful, miserable, on cloud nine, over the moon, overjoyed, pacific, perky, placated, pleased, sad, satisfied, thrilled, tickled pink, triumphant, unhappy, upbeat
Scrabble Score: 4
sad: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsad: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sad: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary