Define:Sad

Relatit: SAD, säd, sąd, and sáð

English

Etymology

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

• /sæd/
• Audio (US) 
• Rhymes: -æd

Adjective

Sad (comparative sadder, superlative saddest)

1. (obsolete) Satit, havin haed ane's fill; satisfied, weary.
2. (obsolete) Steadfast, valiant.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book V:

     And thus they strekyn forth into the stremys, many sadde hunderthes.

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.

6. Appearin sorrowfu.

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^[1]:

     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.

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 [...].

9. (slang) Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.

10. (dialect) Soggy (tae refer tae pastries).

Synonyms

• (feelin mentally uncomfortable): discomfortit, distressed, uncomfortable, unhappy
• (law in spirits): depressed, doun in the dumps, glum, melancholy
• (movin, full o feelin): poignant, touchin
• (causin sorrow): lamentable
• (puir in quality): pitifu, sorry
• See an aa Wikisaurus:sad
• See an aa Wikisaurus:lamentable

Antonyms

• happy
• cheerfu
• gleefu, upbeat
• decent

Derived terms

• sadness

Related terms

• sadden

Translations

of colours: dark, sombre, dull

• Finnish: synkkä (fi)

feelin sorrow

• American Sign Language: 5@NearInsideNosehigh-PalmBack-5@NearInsideNosehigh-PalmBack 5@NearInsideNeckhigh-PalmBack-5@NearInsideNeckhigh-PalmBack
• Arabic: حزين‎ (ḥazīn), مؤسف‎ (muʾsif)
• Armenian: տխուր (txur)
• Basque: goibel
• Belarusian: сумны (sumny)
• Bengali: দুঃখিত (duḥkhit)
• Catalan: trist (ca) m, trista (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哀傷 (zh), 哀伤 (zh) (āishāng), 悲傷 (zh), 悲伤 (zh) (bēishāng), 憂傷, 忧伤 (zh) (yōushāng)

• Czech: smutný (cs)
• Dutch: triest (nl)
• Esperanto: malgaja
• Filipino: malungkot
• Finnish: surullinen (fi)
• French: triste (fr)
• Friulian: avilît
• Galician: triste (gl)
• Georgian: სევდიანი, დარდიანი, მწუხარე, ნაღვლიანი
• German: traurig (de)
• Hawaiian: kaumaha
• Hindi: उदास (udās), दुखी (dukhī)
• Hungarian: szomorú (hu)
• Ido: trista (io)
• Irish: brónach
• Italian: triste (it)

• Japanese: 悲しい (ja) (かなしい, kanashii)
• Krymchak: опранмах, бехсун (bekhsun)
• Latgalian: skumeigs, žāls
• Latin: tristis, maestus (la)
• Latvian: skumjš, bēdīgs
• Luxembourgish: trauereg
• Maori: hinapouri
• Norwegian: trist, lei seg
• Old English: drēoriġ, ċeariġ
• Pashto: غمجن‎ (ps) (ğamjan), خپه‎ (ps) (xapa), خواشينی‎ (ps) (xwâšinay)
• Persian: غمگین‎ (fa) (ğamgin)
• Polish: smutny (pl)
• Portuguese: triste (pt)
• Romanian: trist (ro), tristă f, abătut (ro) m, n, abătută f
• Russian: грустный (ru) (grústnyj), печальный (ru) (pečál’nyj)
• Sanskrit: खिन्न (khinna)
• Scottish Gaelic: brònach, dubhach, gruamach
• Serbo-Croatian: žalostan
• Slovak: smutný
• Spanish: triste (es)
• Swedish: ledsen (sv), sorgsen
• Turkish: üzgün (tr)
• Ukrainian: смутний (smútnyj)
• Urdu: اداس‎ (udās), دکھی‎ (dukhī)
• Vietnamese: buồn (vi)
• Zazaki: mırozın m, mırozıne f

appearin sorrowfu

• Catalan: trist (ca)
• Finnish: surullinen (fi), surkea (fi)

• Latvian: bēdīgs
• Pashto: غمجن‎ (ps) (ğamjan), خپه‎ (ps) (xapa), خواشينی‎ (ps) (xwâšinay)

causin sorrow, lamentable

• Catalan: trist (ca), lamentable
• Finnish: surullinen (fi)
• Irish: brónach

• Latvian: bēdīgs
• Pashto: غمجن‎ (ps) (ğamjan)

poor in quality, deplorable

• Catalan: trist (ca), deplorable (ca)
• Finnish: surkea (fi)

• Latvian: bēdīgs

slang: socially inadequate or undesirable

• Catalan: patètic, trist (ca)

• Finnish: säälittävä

• Template:Ttbc: trishtuar
• Template:Ttbc: tmuran; žalostan
• Template:Ttbc: droevig, bedroefd, treurig, triest, verdrietig (3, 4)
• Template:Ttbc: λυπημένος (lypēménos)
• Template:Ttbc: עצוב (atzúv)
• Template:Ttbc: szomorú
• Template:Ttbc: sendu, sedih

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• Template:Ttbc: 슬픈 (seulpeun)
• Template:Ttbc: xemgîn, دڵ ته‌نگ‎
• Template:Ttbc: trist (1,2), rørende (3)
• Template:Ttbc: fo mhulad, fo ghruaim, cianail, dòlasach, truagh, tùrsach, muladach
• Template:Ttbc: tužan, utučen, sumoran, turoban, tmuran, žalostan
• Template:Ttbc: olycklig (sv) (1,2)
• Template:Ttbc: విచారము (vicaaramu), దిగులు (digulu)

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External links

• Sad in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionar, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Sad in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• ads
• ASD
• SDA

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Czech

Noun

1. orchard

Derived terms

• sadař
• sadový

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Danish

Verb

Sad

1. past o sidde

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Polish

Pronunciation

• /s̪at̪/

Noun

Sad m

1. orchard

Declension

   

	singular	plural
nominative	sad	sady
genitive	sadu	sadów
dative	sadowi	sadom
accusative	sad	sady
instrumental	sadem	sadami
locative	sadzie	sadach
vocative	sadzie	sady

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Scots

Etymology

Old English sæd.

Pronunciation

• /sɑd/

Adjective

Sad (comparative sadder, superlative saddest)

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Template:Proto.

Alternative forms

• sȁda

Pronunciation

• /sâd/

Adverb

1. now
2. currently
3. presently

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Slovene

Noun

sad

1. fruit