Sad
[sæd]
Definition
(adj.) experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; '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 .
(adj.) 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 .
Edited by Brent--From WordNet
Definition
(supperl.) Sated; satisfied; weary; tired.
(supperl.) Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.
(supperl.) Dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors.
(supperl.) Serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous.
(supperl.) Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.
(supperl.) Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow; as, a sad accident; a sad misfortune.
(supperl.) Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked.
(v. t.) To make sorrowful; to sadden.
Editor: Rhoda
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Sorrowful, desponding, depressed, downcast, melancholy, cheerless, disconsolate, crest-fallen, chap-fallen, cast down.[2]. Gloomy, dismal, doleful, mournful, lugubrious, grievous, woebegone.[3]. Grievous, afflictive, calamitous, disastrous, dire, deplorable.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Heavy, grave, dull, sorrowful, woe-begone, calamitous, dismal, doleful,mournful, gloomy, dejected, depressed, cheerless, serious, downcast, grievous,melancholy, saturnine
ANT:Light, light-hearted, cheerful, joyful, joyous, gay, glad, exhilarating,exhilarated, happy, blithe
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Definition
adj. sorrowful: serious: cast down: calamitous: weary: sombre: stiff: doughy: dejected: troublesome: sober dark-coloured: (obs.) ponderous heavy.—v.t. to grieve.—v.t. Sad′den to make sad: to render heavy: to grow hard.—v.i. to grow sad.—adjs. Sad′-eyed (Shak.) having an expression of sadness in the eyes; Sad′-faced (Shak.) having an expression of sadness in the face; Sad′-heart′ed (Shak.) having the heart full of sadness.—adv. Sad′ly.—n. Sad′ness.
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Examples
- I couldn't help it, I felt so lonely and sad, and was so very glad to see you. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He now smiled: and not a bitter or a sad smile, but one well pleased and deeply gratified. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Alack-a-day, the good Lord Luigi reigns not here in these sad times. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He is sad; silence seals his mind. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Before that time we sit listening to a tale, a marvellous fiction, delightful sometimes, and sad sometimes, almost always unreal. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They are sad Goths in Art, Mr. Hartright. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It must seem very strange to any one but me, and does even to me: I often feel the old sad pity for--I need not write the word--for him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Yes--refused, Rebecca continued, with a sad, tearful voice. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Biddy, said I, I think you might have written to me about these sad matters. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was a sad, anxious day; and the morrow, though differing in the sort of evil, did by no means bring less. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The misery of a weak, helpless, dumb creature is surely one of the saddest of all the mournful sights which this world can show. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- For eighteen long months the storms of war beat upon the helpless town, and left it at last the saddest wreck that ever the sun has looked upon. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He was always the saddest of the groupe; and, even to my unpractised senses, he appeared to have suffered more deeply than his friends. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It was the saddest experience of my life, Miss Porter; and then, added to it, there was my own grief--the greatest I have ever known. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Nothing but the saddest of all confessions that a man can make--the confession of his own folly. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She would often be lost in deep thought, with the saddest look upon her face. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Or the verse 'The saddest of fates is to die and meet destiny from hunger? Plato. The Republic.
- If it were as you say, what could be sadder than so much ardent labor all in vain? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I come back sadder and wiser; weakly enough, but not worried. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Then the passages were tinged with a subdued happiness that was even sadder than the rest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Edith came down upon her feet a little bit sadder; with a romance blown to pieces. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The day seems different to me from every other day, and the light not of the same colour--of a sadder colour. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The more inflexibly stubborn the humour, the softer, the sadder the tone. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The north and east owned a terrific influence, making all pain more poignant, all sorrow sadder. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But then, again, your face grew sadder; you shook your head. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- These two monosyllables were uttered in a sadder tone than ever; and as she said them she shook her head slightly and sighed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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