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sad
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- pronunciation:
- saed
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| inflections: |
sadder, saddest |
| definition 1: |
When you are sad, you feel very bad and you can't feel happy about anything. Many people cry when they are sad.
My sister and I were very sad when our cat died.
- synonyms:
- blue, depressed, low, unhappy
- antonyms:
- cheerful, glad, merry, sunny
- similar words:
- down, gloomy, heavy
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| definition 2: |
When something is sad, it makes many people feel like crying.
The movie had a sad ending.- synonyms:
- gloomy
- antonyms:
- merry
- similar words:
- distressing, painful, unfortunate
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| related words: |
bad |
| derivations: |
sadly (adv.), sadness (n.) |
The word sad has been part of the English language for many centuries but did not mean "unhappy" until the 1300s. In Old English, "sad" meant "satisfied." Later, it came to mean "tired or weary of."
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feeling sad |
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blue, dark, down, dreary, gloomy, heavy, lonely, low, miserable, sorry, unhappy |
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