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adjective
Sad  adj.  (compar. sadder; superl. saddest)  
1.
Sated; satisfied; weary; tired. (Obs.) "Yet of that art they can not waxen sad, For unto them it is a bitter sweet."
2.
Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard. (Obs., except in a few phrases; as, sad bread.) "His hand, more sad than lump of lead." "Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad."
3.
Dull; grave; dark; somber; said of colors. "Sad-colored clothes." "Woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of all sad colors."
4.
Serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous. (Obs.) "Ripe and sad courage." "Lady Catharine, a sad and religious woman." "Which treaty was wisely handled by sad and discrete counsel of both parties."
5.
Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful. "First were we sad, fearing you would not come; Now sadder, that you come so unprovided." "The angelic guards ascended, mute and sad."
6.
Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow; as, a sad accident; a sad misfortune.
7.
Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked. (Colloq.) "Sad tipsy fellows, both of them." Note: Sad is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sad-colored, sad-eyed, sad-hearted, sad-looking, and the like.
Sad bread, heavy bread. (Scot. & Local, U.S.)
Synonyms: Sorrowful; mournful; gloomy; dejected; depressed; cheerless; downcast; sedate; serious; grave; grievous; afflictive; calamitous.



noun
SAD  n.  Seasonal affective disorder. (Acron.)



verb
Sad  v. t.  To make sorrowful; to sadden. (Obs.) "How it sadded the minister's spirits!"






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"Sad" Quotes from Famous Books



... word lately pronounced by Dr. Monygham—floated into her still and sad immobility. Incorrigible in his devotion to the great silver mine was the Senor Administrador! Incorrigible in his hard, determined service of the material interests to which he had pinned his faith in the triumph of order and justice. Poor boy! She had a clear vision of the grey hairs ...
— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad

... and make them wax and wane: So women, that, of all things made of nothing, 15 Are the most perfect idols of the moone, Or still-unwean'd sweet moon-calves with white faces, Not only are paterns of change to men, But as the tender moon-shine of their beauties Cleares or is cloudy, make men glad or sad. 20 So then they rule in men, not ...
— Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois • George Chapman

... the relatives of Napoleon were excluded from residing in the French territory. In the unhappy kingdom of Spain the execrable and impotent Ferdinand, impotent in all but cruelty, exercised the most unlimited powers of tyranny and oppression; a sad contrast to the comparatively mild and liberal Government of Joseph Buonaparte. In Spain, almost every man who had assisted Wellington to drive out the French, in fact, every avowed friend of civil and religious Liberty, were either ...
— Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 3 • Henry Hunt

... "I do believe it—almost always—except when I'm so sad that I can't believe anything. But even when I can't believe it, I know it's true—and I try to believe. You don't know how I try, Peter. Now take the letters to the post, and don't let's be sad any more. Courage, courage! That's ...
— The Railway Children • E. Nesbit

... Avenue into Benicia Street. This is the hour when the fly cedes to the mosquito, as the Tuscan poet says, and, as one may add, the frying grasshopper yields to the shrilly cricket in noisiness. The embrowning air rings with the sad music made by these innumerable little violinists, hid in all the gardens round, and the pedestrian feels a sinking of the spirits not to be accounted for upon the theory that the street is duller than the Avenue, for it ...
— Suburban Sketches • W.D. Howells


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