sad
1. experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness (Freq. 9)
- feeling sad because his dog had died
- "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti
• Ant:
glad
• Similar to:
bittersweet, doleful, mournful, heavyhearted, melancholy,
melancholy, pensive, wistful, tragic, tragical,
tragicomic, tragicomical
• Derivationally related forms:
sadness
2. of things that make you feel sad
- 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"- Christina Rossetti
• Similar to:
sorrowful
• Derivationally related forms:
sadness
3. bad;
unfortunate
- my finances were in a deplorable state
- a lamentable decision
- her clothes were in sad shape
- a sorry state of affairs
• Syn:
deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sorry
• Similar to:
bad
• Derivationally related forms:
sorriness (for: sorry), sadness, lament (for: lamentable)
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