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Synonyms for sad
sædsad
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Wiktionary
sadadjective
sadadjective
soggy (to refer to pastries).
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lamentable, pitiful, sorrysadadjective
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uncomfortable, discomforted, distressed, unhappysadadjective
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glum, down in the dumps, melancholy, depressedsadadjective
sadadjective
Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
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pitiful, sorry, lamentablesadadjective
Steadfast, valiant.
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pitiful, lamentable, sorrysadadjective
Dignified, serious, grave.
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sorry, pitiful, lamentablesadadjective
Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
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lamentable, sorry, pitifulsadadjective
Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
She gets sad when he's away.
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lamentable, pitiful, sorrysadadjective
Appearing sorrowful.
The puppy had a sad little face.
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pitiful, sorry, lamentablesadadjective
Causing sorrow; lamentable.
It's a sad fact that most rapes go unreported.
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pitiful, sorry, lamentablesadadjective
Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
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pitiful, lamentable, sorrysadadjective
Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
I can't believe you use drugs; you're so sad!
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pitiful, lamentable, sorry
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
sad
Synonyms:
heavy, grave, dull, sorrowful, woe-begone, calamitous, dismal, doleful, mournful, gloomy, dejected, depressed, cheerless, serious, downcast, grievous, melancholy, saturnineAntonyms:
light, light-hearted, cheerful, joyful, joyous, gay, glad, exhilarating, exhilarated, happy, blithe
Princeton's WordNet
sadadjective
experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness
"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
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deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, distressing, sorrysadadjective
of things that make you feel sad
"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
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deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, distressing, sorrydeplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorryadjective
bad; unfortunate
"my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
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regretful, deplorable, hapless, no-account, reprehensible, woeful, dismal, troubling, execrable, dingy, disconsolate, perturbing, no-count, good-for-nothing, miserable, worrying, criminal, no-good, vicious, disturbing, dark, grim, piteous, condemnable, lamentable, worrisome, misfortunate, pitiable, distressing, bad, poor, pathetic, wretched, sorry, pitiful, gloomy, drab, distressful, dreary, drear, good-for-naught, blue, meritless
Editors Contribution
melancholy
a feeling of sorrow; normally with no cause
"for some reason he felt melancholy when she woke up"
Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019grinch
not happy
Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019subaerialverb
being subaerial makes me sad so the similarities is present for those with similar interests in the word subaerial.
i am sad\subaerial
sulked
not happy or disappointed
Dictionary of English Synonymes
sadadjective
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sorrowful, desponding, depressed, downcast, melancholy, cheerless, disconsolate, crest-fallen, chap-fallen, cast downsadadjective
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gloomy, dismal, doleful, mournful, lugubrious, grievous, woebegonesadadjective
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grievous, afflictive, calamitous, disastrous, dire, deplorable
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
sadadjective
Synonyms:
sorrowful, pathetic, plaintive, doleful, piteous, lugubrious, rueful, mournful, dismal, funereal, gloomy, melancholy, disconsolate, dejected, touching, calamitous, deplorable, grievous, dire, afflictive, wretched, saturnine, grave, sober, dull, sombre, subdued, bad, naughty, troublesome, mischievous, vexatious
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "sad":
regrettable, unfortunate, sadness, unhappy, triste, tragic, saddened, depressing, deplorable, saddening, miserable, gloomy, lamentable, grim, dismal, sorry, distressing, upset, sorrowful, pitiful, sob, painful, bleak, dss, ods, wretched, dreary, das, boring, sadly
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How to use sad in a sentence?
I feel sad. I feel angry. I feel confused. I wish it never would have happened, he was getting older. Sometimes his anger was getting stronger and sometimes he had to be physically restrained.
I knew my lines every single day. And then there's a rumor online that I can't read or write ? , it's sad. It really is. I think often if I were a man, a lot of this wouldn't be the case.
My kids are very happy to help me do this.Two of them are going to school online and my oldest daughter is working remotely at an internship. I think we all view this as a moment of connection with students who may feel alone, or sad because they arent with their family. Its an acknowledgment that were all in this together.
As a Republican, I would love to blame that on my Democrat colleagues, but the sad fact of the matter is, Republicans are just as much to blame, if not more.
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner:
This is a sad day for the people of Illinois and the 18th District.
Translations for sad
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- مؤسف, حزينArabic
- сумныBelarusian
- দুঃখিতBengali
- lamentable, trista, deplorable, patètic, tristCatalan, Valencian
- smutnýCzech
- tristDanish
- traurig, tristGerman
- λυπημένοςGreek
- malgajaEsperanto
- tristeSpanish
- goibelBasque
- غمگینPersian
- säälittävä, synkkä, surullinen, surkeaFinnish
- tristeFrench
- brónachIrish
- gruamach, brònach, dubhachScottish Gaelic
- tristeGalician
- उदास, दुखीHindi
- szomorúHungarian
- տխուրArmenian
- sedihIndonesian
- tristaIdo
- dapurIcelandic
- tristeItalian
- 悲しいJapanese
- მწუხარე, ნაღვლიანი, დარდიანი, სევდიანიGeorgian
- maestus, tristisLatin
- traueregLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- skumjš, bēdīgsLatvian
- hinapouriMāori
- triestDutch
- lei seg, tristNorwegian
- smutnyPolish
- خواشينی, غمجن, خپهPashto, Pushto
- tristePortuguese
- tristă, abătută, abătut, tristRomanian
- грустный, печальныйRussian
- खिन्नSanskrit
- žalostanSerbo-Croatian
- smutnýSlovak
- ledsen, sorgsenSwedish
- வருத்தம்Tamil
- üzgünTurkish
- сму́тнийUkrainian
- اداس, دکھیUrdu
- buồnVietnamese
- 伤心Chinese
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