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- 1 Emotionally negative.; Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
"She gets sad when he's away."
- 2 Emotionally negative.; Appearing sorrowful.
"The puppy had a sad little face."
- 3 Emotionally negative.; Causing sorrow; lamentable.
"It's a sad fact that most rapes go unreported."
- 4 Emotionally negative.; Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
"That's the saddest-looking pickup truck I've ever seen."
- 5 Emotionally negative.; Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
"[…]this is either uſed crude, and called ſulphur vive, and is of a ſadder colour; or after depuration, ſuch as we have in magdeleons or rols of a lighter yellow."
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- 6 Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary. obsolete
- 7 Steadfast, valiant. obsolete
"The fearefull newes that whilſt the flame doth but begin, Sad pollicie may ſerue to quench the fire: […]"
- 8 Dignified, serious, grave. obsolete
"Therfore it nedeth that better prouysion. Were founde for youthe by sad and wyse counsayle"
- 9 Naughty; troublesome; wicked. obsolete
"Mr. Santon laughed, and merely said,—"Oh, you cruel beauty!" returning to his paper again; but, seated in the bay-window was one, who could not thus lightly look upon the conduct of the coquettish Winnie, for it was evident she was a sad coquette."
- 10 Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable. slang
"I can't believe you use drugs; you're so sad!"
- 11 Soggy (to refer to pastries). dialectal
- 12 Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard. obsolete
"sad bread"
- 1 bad; unfortunate wordnet
- 2 experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness wordnet
- 3 of things that make you feel sad wordnet
- 1 Expressing contempt, ridicule or disgust; bah! Internet, humorous, sometimes
- 1 Initialism of Special Activities Division. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 2 Initialism of Shiromani Akali Dal (Indian political party) abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 1 Alternative form of saad (“Arabic letter”). alt-of, alternative
- 2 Initialism of seasonal affective disorder. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 3 Initialism of standard American diet. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 4 Initialism of social anxiety disorder. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 5 Initialism of single-wavelength anomalous dispersion. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 1 To make melancholy; to sadden or grieve (someone). archaic, transitive
"16??, John Webster, Appius and Virginia My father's wondrous pensive, and withal / With a suppress'd rage left his house displeas'd, / And so in post is hurried to the camp: / It sads me much; to expel which melancholy, / I have sent for company."
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. The interjection sense is a reference to frequent usage of the word as an interjection in the tweets of Donald Trump, President of the United States (2017–2021; a Trumpism.
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. The interjection sense is a reference to frequent usage of the word as an interjection in the tweets of Donald Trump, President of the United States (2017–2021; a Trumpism.
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. The interjection sense is a reference to frequent usage of the word as an interjection in the tweets of Donald Trump, President of the United States (2017–2021; a Trumpism.
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