sad
affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful: to feel sad because a close friend has moved away.
expressive of or characterized by sorrow: sad looks;a sad song.
Origin of sad
1Other words for sad
Opposites for sad
Other words from sad
- sad·ly, adverb
- sad·ness, noun
Words Nearby sad
Other definitions for SAD (2 of 3)
seasonal affective disorder.
Other definitions for sād (3 of 3)
the 14th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
Origin of sād
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How to use sad in a sentence
“I’m personally sad that two parents would be out to ruin a program, ruin people’s livelihoods because their children didn’t work hard enough or made mistakes,” Clark said.
School Sports Became ‘Clubs’ Amid the Pandemic – Now Two Coaches Are Out | Ashly McGlone | September 17, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoThe sad part is that when talking about this topic, I noticed how hard it actually is for Googlers to get the SEO community to change our ways.
How to earn your place in Google’s index in 2020 | Bartosz Góralewicz | September 14, 2020 | Search Engine LandIn a blog post, Amazon simply says that “positivity” measures how happy or sad a voice sounds.
How Amazon’s new health tracker will use AI to monitor your tone of voice | Nicolás Rivero | August 28, 2020 | Quartz“Rather than do a watered-down, sad version of our television show with one person in a 2,000-square-foot set with nobody in the background, let’s just shift it at home,” said Bishop.
‘A new way of working’: Publishers’ test kitchens return to studios with new safety procedures in the mix | Kayleigh Barber | August 14, 2020 | DigidayThis is especially interesting when comparing it to unemployment searches, which is a very sad side effect of the economy shut down.
Five Google Trends charts that show the impact of COVID-19 | Jason Tabeling | July 9, 2020 | Search Engine Watch
Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President | Pierre Assouline | January 9, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHaha, what a sad thing to be great at, but yeah, I guess I am.
Patton Oswalt on Fighting Conservatives With Satire | William O’Connor | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTA sad-faced orange Star of David flashed across the iPhone screen as we swiped left on “James” (not his real name).
Lady Edith is so sad that her sadness nearly set the whole damned house on fire.
‘Downton Abbey’ Review: A Fire, Some Sex, and Sad, Sad Edith | Kevin Fallon | January 5, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe trio formed the sad Boys collective, with Sherm and Gud on production and Lean manning the mic.
The Cult of Yung Lean: ‘I’m Building An Anarchistic Society From the Ground Up’ | Marlow Stern | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe sad end of the mission to King M'Bongo has been narrated in the body of this work.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsAll through the sad duties of the next four days Felipe was conscious of the undercurrent of this premonition.
Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonShe looked up at him with sad and eloquent eyes, which softened his heart in spite of himself.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonIt was a sad day for Ramona and Alessandro when the kindly Hyers pulled up their tent-stakes and left the valley.
Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonSomehow it made me feel sad to hear it, and a sense of the transitoriness of things came over me.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy Fay
British Dictionary definitions for sad (1 of 2)
/ (sæd) /
feeling sorrow; unhappy
causing, suggestive, or expressive of such feelings: a sad story
unfortunate; unsatisfactory; shabby; deplorable: her clothes were in a sad state
British informal ludicrously contemptible; pathetic: he's a sad, boring little wimp
(of pastry, cakes, etc) not having risen fully; heavy
(of a colour) lacking brightness; dull or dark
archaic serious; grave
NZ to express sadness or displeasure strongly
Origin of sad
1Derived forms of sad
- sadly, adverb
- sadness, noun
British Dictionary definitions for SAD (2 of 2)
seasonal affective disorder
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