sad

From Middle English sad, from Old English sæd (“sated, full”), from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated, satisfied”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, satisfy”).

• IPA^(key): /sæd/

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• Rhymes: -æd

sad (comparative sadder or more sad, superlative saddest or most sad)

1. (heading) Emotionally negative.
   1. Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.

      She gets sad when he's away.

      • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

        First were we sad, fearing you would not come; / Now sadder, that you come so unprovided.

      • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

        The angelic guards ascended, mute and sad.

   2. Appearing sorrowful.

      The puppy had a sad little face.

   3. Causing sorrow; lamentable.

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

      • (Can we date this quote?) G. K. Chesterton

        The Great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, / For all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad.

      • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess‎:

        The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.

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

      That's the saddest-looking pickup truck I've ever seen.

      • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.127:

        Heaven knows what cash he got, or blood he spilt, / A sad old fellow was he, if you please […].

   5. Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
      • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:

        this is either used crude, and called Sulphur Vive, and is of a sadder colour; or after depuration, such as we have in magdeleons of rolls, of a lighter yellow.

      • (Can we date this quote?) Izaak Walton

        sad-coloured clothes

      • (Can we date this quote?) John Mortimer

        Woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of all sad colours.

2. (obsolete) Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
3. (obsolete) Steadfast, valiant.
4. (obsolete) Dignified, serious, grave.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto IX:

     Vprose Sir Guyon, in bright armour clad, / And to his purposd iourney him prepar'd: / With him the Palmer eke in habit sad, / Him selfe addrest to that aduenture hard […]

   • (Can we date this quote?) Francis Bacon

     ripe and sad courage

   • (Can we date this quote?) Lord Berners

     which treaty was wisely handled by sad and discrete counsel of both parties

5. (obsolete) Naughty; troublesome; wicked.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Isaac Taylor

     Sad tipsy fellows, both of them.

6. (slang) Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.

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

7. (dialectal) Soggy (to refer to pastries).
8. (obsolete) Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.

   sad bread

   • (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Spenser

     his hand, more sad than lump of lead

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Mortimer

     Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad.

• (feeling mentally uncomfortable): discomforted, distressed, uncomfortable, unhappy
• (low in spirits): depressed, down in the dumps, glum, melancholy
• (moving, full of feeling): poignant, touching
• (causing sorrow): lamentable
• (poor in quality): pitiful, sorry
• See also Thesaurus:sad
• See also Thesaurus:lamentable

• happy
• cheerful
• gleeful, upbeat
• decent

• sadness
• sadder
• saddest

• sadden

• sad in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sad in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

sad (plural sads)

1. Alternative form of saad (“Arabic letter”)

• ADS, ADs, ASD, AdS, Ads, DA's, DAS, DAs, DSA, SDA, ads, das

• Hyphenation: sad

sad

1. (focus) also; too
2. (after a negative) either

From Proto-Slavic *sadъ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsat]

sad m

1. orchard

• sadař m
• sadový

• sad in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• sad in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

sad

1. past tense of sidde

sad

1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌳

• (Courland) sa'd

From Proto-Finnic *sadek.

sad

1. precipitiation (hail, rain, snow)

From Proto-Slavic *sadъ (“plant, garden”). Cognate with Upper Sorbian sad, Polish sad (“orchard”), Czech sad (“orchard”), Russian сад (sad, “orchard, garden”), Old Church Slavonic садъ (sadŭ, “plant, garden”).

• IPA^(key): [sat]

sad m

1. fruit (food)

From Proto-Germanic *sadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, satisfy”).

sad (comparative sadoro, superlative sadost)

1. full, sated, satiated
2. weary

• Middle Low German sat

From Proto-Slavic *sadъ.

• IPA^(key): /sat/

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sad m inan (diminutive sadek)

1. orchard

• (noun) sadownik
• (adjective) sadowy

• (verb) sadzić

• sad in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old English sæd.

• IPA^(key): /sɑd/

sad (comparative sadder, superlative saddest)

1. grave, serious
2. strange, remarkable
3. sad

From Proto-Slavic *sьda, *sьgoda.

• sȁda

• IPA^(key): /sâd/

sȁd (Cyrillic spelling са̏д)

1. now
2. currently
3. presently

From Proto-Slavic *saditi (“to plant”). Compare Serbo-Croatian saditi and Russian сад (sad)

• IPA^(key): /sâːd/

sȃd m (Cyrillic spelling са̑д)

1. plant nursery, plantation, orchard (specialized facility rather than a home garden)
2. a seeding or sapling from a plant nursery

• “sad” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “sad” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Slavic *sadъ.

• IPA^(key): /sad/, IPA^(key): [sat]

sad m (genitive singular sadu, nominative plural sady, genitive plural sadov, declension pattern of dub)

1. garden, orchard, plantation

• sadový
• sadík

• sad in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

• IPA^(key): /sáːt/

sȃd m inan

1. fruit

Compare Tajik сад (sad).

sad

1. hundred