sad
Part of speech: adj
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: heading
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, American businessman and politician (born 1946), President of the United States (2017–2021); a Trumpism.
Inflected forms:
form: sadder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more sad
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: saddest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most sad
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Emotionally negative.
pos: adj
examples: She gets sad when he's away.
Firſt were we ſad, fearing you would not come, / Now ſadder that you come ſo vnprouided:[…]
[…]Th’ Angelic Guards aſcended, mute and ſad[…]
gloss: Emotionally negative.
pos: adj
examples: The puppy had a sad little face.
We need a sad man. Give us a sad man.” Tomo gave the look of a sad man, then followed with the body of a sad man. “That's it, more of that. can you manufacture a mole right here? Yes, a very ugly mole. Right here, on the chin.[…]
gloss: Emotionally negative.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
gloss: Emotionally negative.
pos: adj
examples: That's the saddest-looking pickup truck I've ever seen.
Heaven knows what cash he got, or blood he spilt, / A sad old fellow was he, if you please[…].
Musk is betting that lonely users will trade their cash (and last shreds of their connection to human life) for a bot that is explicitly designed to flirt with sad men, as the saddest man on Earth spearheaded it.
gloss: Emotionally negative.
pos: adj
examples: […]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.
sad-coloured clothes
Woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of many colours, especially all sad colours.
gloss: Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Steadfast, valiant.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: The fearefull newes that whilſt the flame doth but begin,
Sad pollicie may ſerue to quench the fire: […]
gloss: Dignified, serious, grave.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Therfore it nedeth that better prouysion.
Were founde for youthe by sad and wyse counsayle
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: […]
gloss: Naughty; troublesome; wicked.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
In ſuch places, it would not be doubted, that a grim Daniel Scroggins, and an aproned Sam Smith, might be found—ſad tipſy fellows, both of them, to whoſe ingenuity this or that mechanical improvement had been due.
gloss: Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I can't believe you use drugs; you're so sad!
You’d have to be really sad to wear a shirt like that.
gloss: Soggy (to refer to pastries).
pos: adj
tags: dialectal
gloss: Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: sad bread
[…]his hand, more ſad then lomp of lead,[…]
Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad.
gloss: Expressing contempt, ridicule or disgust; bah!
pos: intj
tags: Internet
humorous
sometimes
Synonyms: atrabiliary
atrabilious
blitheless
dispirited
blue
bummed out
chapfallen
cheerless
chopfallen
crestfallen
cut up
damp
dejected
depressed
despondent
disgruntled
disconsolate
disheartened
dismal
doleful
dolesome
down
down in the dumps
down in the mouth
downcast
downhearted
downsome
dull
elegiac
elegious
forlorn
gloomy
glum
grief-stricken
grieving
heavy-hearted
heartsore
heartsick
inconsolable
infelicitous
jawfallen
joyless
lachrymose
lamentful
low
low-spirited
lugubrious
lumpish
melancholic
melancholy
miserable
moody
mopey
morose
mournful
passionate
plaintive
Plutonian
Plutonic
querulous
ruthful
sad
saddened
saturnine
shattered
solemn
sombre
sorrowful
sorrow-ridden
sorrowsome
spiritless
sullen
threnetic
threnetical
triste
tristful
uncheerful
uncheery
unconsolable
unlively
wistful
woe
woebegone
woeful
wretched
Antonyms: blissed out
blissful
cock-a-hoop
content
delighted
ecstatic
elated
excited
exultant
gay
glad
gleeful
happy
jovial
joyful
on cloud nine
overjoyed
over the moon
pacific
perky
placated
pleased
satisfied
thrilled
tickled pink
triumphant
Related words: sadden
apathetic
haggard
lamentable
Derived words: get a sad on
make someone's ears sad
oversad
pack a sad
pathetisad
sad ass
sad beige
sadboi
sad bread
sad case
sadcase
sad-cited
sadcited
sad-com
sadcore
sadder
saddest
saddie
saddish
saddo
sad drunk
sad-eyed
sad-faced
sadfic
sadfish
sadfishing
sadfuck
sadful
sadge
sadhearted
sadiron
sadlarious
sadless
sadmin
sadness
sad number
sad panda
sadpost
sad sack
sadsome
sadster
sad to say
sad tree
sad trombone
sadware
sangry
semisad
supersad
unsad
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