sad (a)

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type a
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def experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness
examples feeling sad because his dog had died
Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad Christina Rossetti
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Derivationally related form sad → sadness; sad → sadness
Antonym sad → glad
Similar to bittersweet; doleful, mournful; heavyhearted; melancholy, melancholic; pensive, wistful; tragic, tragical; tragicomic, tragicomical
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Also see unhappy
Antonym glad → sad
Similar to bittersweet; doleful, mournful; heavyhearted; melancholy, melancholic; pensive, wistful; tragic, tragical; tragicomic, tragicomical
Derived from adjective sadly → sad
Derivationally related form sadness → sad; sadness → sad

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