HyperDic: sad

English > 3 senses of the word *sad*:
ADJECTIVE	all	sad	experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness
	all	sad	of things that make you feel sad
	all	sad, deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sorry	bad

sad > pronunciation
Sounds	sae'd
Rhymes	ad / AD ... Volgograd: 52 rhymes with aed...

English > *sad*: 3 senses > adjective 1
Meaning	Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
Examples	"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
Narrower	bittersweet	tinged with sadness
	doleful, mournful	Filled with or evoking sadness
	heavyhearted	depressed
	melancholy, melancholic	Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
	pensive, wistful	showing pensive sadness
	tragic, tragical	Very sad
	tragicomic, tragicomical	manifesting both tragic and comic aspects
See also	unhappy	Experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
Opposite	glad	showing or causing joy and pleasure
Spanish	triste
Catalan	trist, trista
Nouns	sadness	emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
Nouns	sadness	the state of being sad
Adverbs	sadly	in an unfortunate way

English > *sad*: 3 senses > adjective 2
Meaning	Of things that make you feel sad.
Examples	"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
Broader	sorrowful	Experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss
Spanish	triste
Catalan	trist
Nouns	sadness	the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
Adverbs	sadly	with sadness

English > *sad*: 3 senses > adjective 3
Meaning	bad; unfortunate.
Example	"her clothes were in sad shape"
Synonyms	deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sorry
Broader	bad	Having undesirable or negative qualities
Spanish	deplorable, desolador, lamentable, lamentoso, penoso, triste
Catalan	deplorable
Nouns	sadness	the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
Adverbs	sadly	in an unfortunate or deplorable manner

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