English adjective: sad | |||
| 1. | sad experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness | ||
| Samples | Feeling sad because his dog had died. Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad. | ||
| Similar | bittersweet, doleful, heavyhearted, melancholic, melancholy, mournful, pensive, tragic, tragical, tragicomic, tragicomical, wistful | ||
| Antonyms | glad | ||
| 2. | sad of things that make you feel sad | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Similar | sorrowful | ||
| Antonyms | joyful | ||
| 3. | sad bad; unfortunate | ||
| Samples | My finances were in a deplorable state. A lamentable decision. Her clothes were in sad shape. A sorry state of affairs. | ||
| Synonyms | deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sorry | ||
| Similar | bad | ||
| Antonyms | good | ||