Antonyms for sad
sædsad

Wiktionary(3.71 / 7 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. sadadjective

   Antonyms:
   upbeat, cheerful, gleeful, happy, decent

2. sadadjective

   soggy (to refer to pastries).

   Antonyms:
   gleeful, decent, happy, cheerful, upbeat

   Synonyms:
   lamentable, pitiful, sorry

3. sadadjective

   Synonyms:
   uncomfortable, discomforted, distressed, unhappy

4. sadadjective

   Synonyms:
   glum, down in the dumps, melancholy, depressed

5. sadadjective

   Synonyms:
   touching, poignant

6. sadadjective

   Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.

   Antonyms:
   cheerful, happy, decent, gleeful, upbeat

   Synonyms:
   pitiful, sorry, lamentable

7. sadadjective

   Steadfast, valiant.

   Antonyms:
   decent, cheerful, happy, upbeat, gleeful

   Synonyms:
   pitiful, lamentable, sorry

8. sadadjective

   Dignified, serious, grave.

   Antonyms:
   decent, cheerful, happy, gleeful, upbeat

   Synonyms:
   sorry, pitiful, lamentable

9. sadadjective

   Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.

   Antonyms:
   decent, upbeat, happy, gleeful, cheerful

   Synonyms:
   lamentable, sorry, pitiful

10. sadadjective

    Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.

    She gets sad when he's away.

    Antonyms:
    upbeat, cheerful, happy, decent, gleeful

    Synonyms:
    lamentable, pitiful, sorry

11. sadadjective

    Appearing sorrowful.

    The puppy had a sad little face.

    Antonyms:
    happy, gleeful, upbeat, decent, cheerful

    Synonyms:
    pitiful, sorry, lamentable

12. sadadjective

    Causing sorrow; lamentable.

    It's a sad fact that most rapes go unreported.

    Antonyms:
    gleeful, decent, upbeat, cheerful, happy

    Synonyms:
    pitiful, sorry, lamentable

13. sadadjective

    Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.

    Antonyms:
    decent, gleeful, upbeat, cheerful, happy

    Synonyms:
    pitiful, lamentable, sorry

14. sadadjective

    Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.

    I can't believe you use drugs; you're so sad!

    Synonyms:
    pitiful, lamentable, sorry

    Antonyms:
    decent, happy, gleeful, cheerful, upbeat

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(4.67 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. sad

   Antonyms:
   light, light-hearted, cheerful, joyful, joyous, gay, glad, exhilarating, exhilarated, happy, blithe

   Synonyms:
   heavy, grave, dull, sorrowful, woe-begone, calamitous, dismal, doleful, mournful, gloomy, dejected, depressed, cheerless, serious, downcast, grievous, melancholy, saturnine

Princeton's WordNet(3.17 / 6 votes)Rate these antonyms:

1. 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

   Antonyms:
   glad, joyful, good, gladsome

   Synonyms:
   deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, distressing, sorry

2. sadadjective

   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

   Antonyms:
   joyful, gladsome, glad, good

   Synonyms:
   deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, distressing, sorry

3. deplorable, 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"

   Antonyms:
   joyful, gladsome, good, glad

   Synonyms:
   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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. 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

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these antonyms:

1. excited

   Submitted by anonymous on June 18, 2020  

2. happy

   Submitted by anonymous on January 22, 2020  

3. happy

   it's the opposite emotion.

   Submitted by karitanesenior on June 13, 2022  

How to use sad in a sentence?

1. Kim Min-woo:

   There was a lot of pressure for me to win, and I'm a little bit sad that I wasn't able to meet my expectation, i also want to say sorry to the Korean people who rooted for us.

2. Brian Ellison:

   There’s two big pieces that you feel when you see something like that, you’re sad, and you’re mad. There's not a lot that you can do about either one of them. So I came home and put another flag up.

3. Denise Bentley:

   There's this heaviness in the community, a heavy feeling of' this is just the way it is ; we're overlooked, this is my lot, this is the rest of my life'... it's sad.

4. Janvier Chouteu-Chando:

   There are times in life when we need to allow a sad memory to run its course.”

5. Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb:

   The sad thing is, 98 percent is concluded, i don't know how sticky it is.

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