Princeton's WordNet(4.25 / 4 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. sad(adj)

   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

   Synonyms:
   deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, distressing, sorry

   Antonyms:
   glad, joyful, good, gladsome

2. sad(adj)

   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

   Synonyms:
   deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, distressing, sorry

   Antonyms:
   joyful, gladsome, glad, good

3. deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry(adj)

   bad; unfortunate

   "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"

   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, sad, piteous, condemnable, lamentable, worrisome, misfortunate, pitiable, distressing, bad, poor, pathetic, wretched, sorry, pitiful, gloomy, drab, distressful, dreary, drear, good-for-naught, blue, meritless

   Antonyms:
   joyful, gladsome, good, glad

Wiktionary(3.20 / 5 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. sad(adjective)

   Antonyms:
   upbeat, cheerful, gleeful, happy, decent

2. sad(adjective)

   soggy (to refer to pastries).

   Synonyms:
   lamentable, pitiful, sorry

   Antonyms:
   gleeful, decent, happy, cheerful, upbeat

3. sad(adjective)

   Synonyms:
   uncomfortable, discomforted, distressed, unhappy

4. sad(adjective)

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

5. sad(adjective)

   Synonyms:
   touching, poignant

6. sad(adjective)

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

   Synonyms:
   pitiful, sorry, lamentable

   Antonyms:
   cheerful, happy, decent, gleeful, upbeat

7. sad(adjective)

   Steadfast, valiant.

   Synonyms:
   pitiful, lamentable, sorry

   Antonyms:
   decent, cheerful, happy, upbeat, gleeful

8. sad(adjective)

   Dignified, serious, grave.

   Synonyms:
   sorry, pitiful, lamentable

   Antonyms:
   decent, cheerful, happy, gleeful, upbeat

9. sad(adjective)

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

   Synonyms:
   lamentable, sorry, pitiful

   Antonyms:
   decent, upbeat, happy, gleeful, cheerful

10. sad(adjective)

    Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.

    Synonyms:
    lamentable, pitiful, sorry

    Antonyms:
    upbeat, cheerful, happy, decent, gleeful

11. sad(adjective)

    Appearing sorrowful.

    Synonyms:
    pitiful, sorry, lamentable

    Antonyms:
    happy, gleeful, upbeat, decent, cheerful

12. sad(adjective)

    Causing sorrow; lamentable.

    Synonyms:
    pitiful, sorry, lamentable

    Antonyms:
    gleeful, decent, upbeat, cheerful, happy

13. sad(adjective)

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

    Synonyms:
    pitiful, lamentable, sorry

    Antonyms:
    decent, gleeful, upbeat, cheerful, happy

14. sad(adjective)

    Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.

    Synonyms:
    pitiful, lamentable, sorry

    Antonyms:
    decent, happy, gleeful, cheerful, upbeat

Dictionary of English Synonymes(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. sad(a.)

   Synonyms:
   sorrowful, desponding, depressed, downcast, melancholy, cheerless, disconsolate, crest-fallen, chap-fallen, cast down

2. sad(a.)

   Synonyms:
   gloomy, dismal, doleful, mournful, lugubrious, grievous, woebegone

3. sad(a.)

   Synonyms:
   grievous, afflictive, calamitous, disastrous, dire, deplorable

PPDB, the paraphrase database(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

List of paraphrases:

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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