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Define:Sad

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Relatit: SAD, säd, sąd, and sáð

English

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Etymology

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Frae Middle Inglis

sad

, frae Old English

, frae Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“satit, satisfied”), frae Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“tae satiate, satisfy”). Cognate wi Wast Frisian

sêd

, Dutch

, German

, Danish

sat

, Norwegian

sad

, Gothic

, and through Indo-European, with Laitin

. Relatit tae sate.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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Sad (comparative sadder, superlative saddest)

  1. (obsolete) Satit, havin haed ane's fill; satisfied, weary.
  2. (obsolete) Steadfast, valiant.
  3. (obsolete) Dignified, serious, grave.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xi:
      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 [...].
  4. O colours: dark, deep; later, sompre, dull.
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
      this is either used crude, and called Sulphur Vive, and is of a sadder colour; or after depuration, such as we have in magdeleons of rolls, of a lighter yellow.
  5. Feelin sorrow; sorrowfu, mournfu.
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  6. Appearin sorrowfu.
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  7. Causin sorrow; lamentable.
    • The Great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
    • G. K. Chesterton
      For, all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, The China Governess:
      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.
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  8. Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
    • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.127:
      Heaven knows what cash he got, or blood he spilt, / A sad old fellow was he, if you please [...].
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  9. (slang) Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
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  10. (dialect) Soggy (tae refer tae pastries).

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Anagrams

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  1. orchard

Derived terms

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  • sadový

Danish

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Sad

  1. past o sidde

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • /s̪at̪/

Sad m

  1. orchard

Declension

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Etymology

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Old English sæd.

Pronunciation

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  • /sɑd/

Adjective

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Sad (comparative sadder, superlative saddest)

  1. grave, serious
  2. strange, remarkable
  3. sad

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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From Error, please see the template documentation {{Proto}} for the proto forms the template supports *sьda.

Alternative forms

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  • /sâd/

Adverb

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  1. now
  2. currently
  3. presently

Slovene

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  1. fruit
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