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SAD
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Irregular inflected forms: sadder , saddest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bad; unfortunate
Example:
a sorry state of affairs
Synonyms:
deplorable; distressing; lamentable; pitiful; sad; sorry
Classified under:
Similar:
bad (having undesirable or negative qualities)
Derivation:
sadness (the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness
Example:
Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad
Classified under:
Similar:
bittersweet (tinged with sadness)
doleful; mournful (filled with or evoking sadness)
heavyhearted (depressed)
melancholic; melancholy (characterized by or causing or expressing sadness)
pensive; wistful (showing pensive sadness)
tragic; tragical (very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction)
tragicomic; tragicomical (manifesting both tragic and comic aspects)
Antonym:
glad (showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy)
Derivation:
sadness (emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being)
sadness (the state of being sad)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of things that make you feel sad
Example:
When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)
Derivation:
sadness (the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness)
Context examples:
At once began to rise the cries that were fiercely sad—cries that called through the darkness and cold to one another and answered back.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It was strange among so many sad and weary faces to see one which was full of energy and resolution.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"What can I do for you?" she inquired softly, for she was moved by the sad voice in which the man spoke.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
“I am already sad in heart for what I have done,” said he, sitting down on the bank, and sinking his face into his hands.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“This is a sad business about Sir Danvers,” he said.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
But soon, he cried with sad and solemn enthusiasm, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
“It was a sad thing to do,” he said afterwards, “but I knew Dan was too good a man for me, for we tried it out before.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When the faithful maiden heard of this, she grew so sad that she thought her heart would break, and she would not go thither, but the other girls came and took her.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient seem sad or depressed?
(NPI - Seem Sad or Depressed, NCI Thesaurus)
A question about an individual's feeling sad at its worst.
(Feeling Sad at its Worst, NCI Thesaurus)
