Meaning

12 senses
  1. Emotionally negative.

    Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.

    She gets sad when he's away.

    traurig

    гру́стныйgrústnyj, печа́льныйpečálʹnyj

    смутни́йsmutnýj, сумни́йsumnýj

  2. Appearing sorrowful.

    The puppy had a sad little face.

    ско́рбныйskórbnyj

  3. Causing sorrow; lamentable.

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

    traurig

    печа́льныйpečálʹnyj

    experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness

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

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

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

    trist

    тёмныйtjómnyj, мра́чныйmráčnyj

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

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

    You’d have to be really sad to wear a shirt like that.

  7. (dialectal)Soggy (to refer to pastries).

  8. (obsolete)Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.

  9. (obsolete)Steadfast, valiant.

  10. (obsolete)Dignified, serious, grave.

  11. (obsolete)Naughty; troublesome; wicked.

  12. (obsolete)Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.

    sad bread

Examples

1432 sentences
  1. Why are you looking so sad?

    Чому ти такий сумний?

    deWieso siehst du so traurig aus?

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  2. I am sad to hear it.

    Сумно це чути.

    ruМне грустно это слышать.

    deEs betrübt mich, das zu hören.

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  3. The news made her very sad.

    Новина її дуже засмутила.

    ruНовость её очень расстроила.

    deDie Nachricht machte sie sehr traurig.

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  4. Tom told us a sad story.

    Том розповів нам сумну історію.

    ruТом рассказал нам грустную историю.

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  5. Tom said I looked very sad.

    Том сказав, що я виглядаю засмученим.

    ruТом сказал, что у меня очень грустный вид.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
feeling sorrow:
Русский
By meaning 3
feeling sorrow:
appearing sorrowful:
of colours: dark, sombre, dull:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
feeling sorrow:
of colours: dark, sombre, dull:

Origin

From Middle English sad, from Old English sæd (“satisfied, full, sated, unable to handle m

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

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Forms

sadder/more sad, saddest/most sad
Comparativesadder / more sad Lesson
Superlativesaddest / most sad Lesson

regular

Synonyms

214 synonyms

Antonyms

72 antonyms

Word family

45 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • looked sad
  • was very sad
  • look so sad
  • sad song
  • a sad story
  • was so sad
  • feel sad
  • really sad
  • a sad song
  • sad and lonely
  • sad story
  • sad news

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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