sad

adjective sadder · more sad · saddest · most sad

1. Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful. She gets sad when he's away.

   Similar: depressed, down in the dumps, glum, melancholy, discomforted, distressed, uncomfortable, unhappy, poignant, touching · Opposite: cheerful, gleeful, happy, upbeat, berserk, blissed out, blithe, buoyant, chirpy, blithesome, bonnie, bright

2. Appearing sorrowful. The puppy had a sad little face.
3. Causing sorrow; lamentable. It's a sad fact that most rapes go unreported.

   Similar: deplorable, saddening, atrabiliary, atrabilious, depressing, distressing, grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending, miserable, lamentable, lachrymable

4. Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor. That's the saddest-looking pickup truck I've ever seen.

   Similar: pitiful, sorry, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap, cheap and nasty, cheapshit · Opposite: decent

5. Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull. […]this is either uſed crude, and called ſulphur vive, and is of a ſadder colour; or after depuration, ſuch as we have in magdeleons or rols of a lighter yellow.

   Similar: bland, colourless, dim, dingy, dull, faint, lackluster, leaden, muddy, sad, sober, uncolorful

6. obsolete Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
7. obsolete Steadfast, valiant. The fearefull newes that whilſt the flame doth but begin, Sad pollicie may ſerue to quench the fire: […]
8. obsolete Dignified, serious, grave. Therfore it nedeth that better prouysion. Were founde for youthe by sad and wyse counsayle

   Similar: staid, stern, austere, frightful, demure, serious, grave, earnest, grievous, lack-laughter, thoughtful, sad

9. obsolete Naughty; troublesome; wicked. Mr. Santon laughed, and merely said,—"Oh, you cruel beauty!" returning to his paper again; but, seated in the bay-window was one, who could not thus lightly look upon the conduct of the coquettish Winnie, for it was evident she was a sad coquette.

   Similar: mischievous, roguish, vexatious

10. slang Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable. I can't believe you use drugs; you're so sad!
11. dialectal Soggy (to refer to pastries).
12. obsolete Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard. sad bread

Similar: atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, despondent, disgruntled, disconsolate, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious · Opposite: blissed out, blissful, cock-a-hoop, content, delighted, ecstatic, elated, excited, exultant, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, jovial, joyful, on cloud nine, overjoyed, over the moon, pacific, perky, placated, pleased, satisfied, thrilled, tickled pink, triumphant

verb sads · sadding · sadded

1. archaic, transitive To make melancholy; to sadden or grieve (someone). 16??, John Webster, Appius and Virginia My father's wondrous pensive, and withal / With a suppress'd rage left his house displeas'd, / And so in post is hurried to the camp: / It sads me much; to expel which melancholy, / I have sent for company.

interjection

1. Internet, humorous, sometimes Expressing contempt, ridicule or disgust; bah!

noun sads

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

noun SADs

1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of seasonal affective disorder
2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of standard American diet
3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of social anxiety disorder
4. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of single-wavelength anomalous dispersion

proper noun

1. US, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Special Activities Division
2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Shiromani Akali Dal (Indian political party)