sad

Meanings

Adjective

• Emotionally negative.
• Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
• Steadfast, valiant.
• Dignified, serious, grave.
• Naughty; troublesome; wicked.
• Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
• Soggy (to refer to pastries).
• Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.

Verb

• To make melancholy; to sadden or grieve (someone).

Noun

• Alternative of saad

Related

Similar words

• discomforted, distressed, uncomfortable, unhappy
• depressed, down in the dumps, glum, melancholy
• poignant, touching
• lamentable
• pitiful, sorry

Opposite words

• happy
• cheerful
• gleeful, upbeat
• decent

Origin

• From Middle English sad, from Old English sæd ("sated, full"), from Proto-Germanic *sadaz ("sated, satisfied"), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- ("to satiate, satisfy").