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Adjective: sad (sadder,saddest)  sad
  1. 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"
     
  2. 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"
     
  3. Bad; unfortunate
    "her clothes were in sad shape";
    - deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sorry
     
  4. [informal] (spoken slang) unfashionable and boring
    - uncool [informal], unhip [informal]
Noun: SAD
  1. A form of depression caused by the lack of natural light during the winter months
    - seasonal affective disorder

Derived forms: sadder, saddest

See also: bad, bittersweet, doleful, heavyhearted, melancholic, melancholy, mournful, pensive, sorrowful, tragic, tragical, tragicomic, tragicomical, wistful

Antonym: glad

Encyclopedia: Sad, Oman

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