- bitter
- dismal
- heartbroken
- melancholy
- mournful
- pessimistic
- somber
- sorrowful
- sorry
- unhappy
- wistful
- bereaved
- blue
- cheerless
- dejected
- depressed
- despairing
- despondent
- disconsolate
- distressed
- doleful
- down
- down in dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- forlorn
- gloomy
- glum
- grief-stricken
- grieved
- heartsick
- heavy-hearted
- hurting
- in doldrums
- in grief
- in the dumps
- languishing
- low
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- morbid
- morose
- not happy
- out of sorts
- pensive
- sick at heart
- troubled
- weeping
- woebegone
- bad
- dark
- depressing
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- miserable
- moving
- pathetic
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- regrettable
- serious
- sorry
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- calamitous
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- discouraging
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- dispiriting
- dreary
- funereal
- grave
- grievous
- hapless
- heart-rending
- joyless
- lachrymose
- lamentable
- lugubrious
- melancholic
- oppressive
- pitiable
- saddening
- shabby
- tearful
- tear-jerking
- unsatisfactory
- upsetting
- wretched
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- apologetic
- conscience-stricken
- contrite
- crestfallen
- dejected
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- doleful
- dreary
- funereal
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- grim
- hopeless
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- morose
- mournful
- ominous
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- black
- cheerless
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- dark
- discouraging
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- hopeless
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- dreary
- funereal
- gloomy
- grim
- hard
- harsh
- hopeless
- joyless
- lonely
- melancholy
- mournful
- oppressive
- sad
- somber
- unpromising
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Other synonyms for the word sad
- bereaved
- blue
- calamitous
- cheerless
- dejected
- dejecting
- deplorable
- despairing
- despondent
- disastrous
- discomposing
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- disheartening
- dispiriting
- distressed
- doleful
- down
- down in dumps
- down in mouth
- downcast
- dreary
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- glum
- grave
- grief-stricken
- grieved
- grievous
- hapless
- heart-rending
- heartsick
- heavyhearted
- hurting
- in doldrums
- in grief
- in the dumps
- joyless
- lachrymose
- lamentable
- languishing
- low
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- melancholic
- morbid
- morose
- oppressive
- out of sorts
- pathetic
- pensive
- pessimistic
- pitiable
- pitiful
- poignant
- regrettable
- saddening
- serious
- shabby
- sick at heart
- somber
- sorrowful
- sorry
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- tragic
- troubled
- unhappy
- unsatisfactory
- upsetting
- weeping
- wistful
- woebegone
- wretched
Définition of sad
Origin :
- Old English sæd «sated, full, having had one’s fill (of food, drink, fighting, etc.), weary of,» from Proto-Germanic *sathaz (cf. Old Norse saðr, Middle Dutch sat, Dutch zad, Old High German sat, German satt, Gothic saþs «satiated, sated, full»), from PIE *seto- (cf. Latin satis «enough, sufficient,» Greek hadros «thick, bulky,» Old Church Slavonic sytu, Lithuanian sotus «satiated,» Old Irish saith «satiety,» sathach «sated»), from root *sa- «to satisfy» (cf. Sanskrit a-sinvan «insatiable»).
- Sense development passed through the meaning «heavy, ponderous» (i.e. «full» mentally or physically), and «weary, tired of» before emerging c.1300 as «unhappy.» An alternative course would be through the common Middle English sense of «steadfast, firmly established, fixed» (e.g. sad-ware «tough pewter vessels») and «serious» to «grave.» In the main modern sense, it replaced Old English unrot, negative of rot «cheerful, glad.»
- Meaning «very bad» is from 1690s. Slang sense of «inferior, pathetic» is from 1899; sad sack is 1920s, popularized by World War II armed forces (specifically by cartoon character invented by Sgt. George Baker, 1942, and published in U.S. Armed Forces magazine «Yank»), probably a euphemistic shortening of common military slang phrase sad sack of shit.
- adj unhappy, depressed
- adj unfortunate, distressing
Example sentences :
- As the train started he swung himself off with a sad little «Be good to yourself!»
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Those found were in a sad state for want of water, and there was not a moment to lose.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- I was oppressed, grieved, sickened, at the sad presentation of humanity.
- Extract from : « Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- Their interviews were first blissful, then anxious, then sad, then stormy.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- «I couldn’t be sad for long with you about, Emma,» she said affectionately.
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe’s Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
- She had remembered him because of the sad mustaches, that morning, and his big voice.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- But to think of living with and living for a man one abhors, what a sad thing is that!
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- If mine is sad, I shall but look the gayer for the contrast.
- Extract from : « The Prophetic Pictures (From «Twice Told Tales») » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- It’s sad—sad to go through so much pain and then to have a dead baby.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- The dog, lying by his side, seemed to look at me with sad, imploring eyes.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
Antonyms for sad
- advantageous
- blessed
- bright
- cheerful
- encouraging
- fortunate
- glad
- good
- great
- happy
- hopeful
- joyful
- light
- lucky
- nice
- pleasant
- right
- unaffecting
- worthwhile
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as in heartbroken
feeling unhappiness
movies in which the hero dies always make us feel sad
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as in depressing
causing unhappiness
the sad news about our uncle’s death made my father cry
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as in pathetic
deserving pitying scorn (as for inadequacy)
no one expected the supermodel to be a great actress, but her acting is sad beyond belief
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sadadjective
Antonyms:
upbeat, cheerful, gleeful, happy, decent -
sadadjective
soggy (to refer to pastries).
Synonyms:
lamentable, pitiful, sorryAntonyms:
gleeful, decent, happy, cheerful, upbeat -
sadadjective
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uncomfortable, discomforted, distressed, unhappy -
sadadjective
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glum, down in the dumps, melancholy, depressed -
sadadjective
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touching, poignant -
sadadjective
Sated, having had one’s fill; satisfied, weary.
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pitiful, sorry, lamentableAntonyms:
cheerful, happy, decent, gleeful, upbeat -
sadadjective
Steadfast, valiant.
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pitiful, lamentable, sorryAntonyms:
decent, cheerful, happy, upbeat, gleeful -
sadadjective
Dignified, serious, grave.
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sorry, pitiful, lamentableAntonyms:
decent, cheerful, happy, gleeful, upbeat -
sadadjective
Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
Synonyms:
lamentable, sorry, pitifulAntonyms:
decent, upbeat, happy, gleeful, cheerful -
sadadjective
Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
She gets sad when he’s away.
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lamentable, pitiful, sorryAntonyms:
upbeat, cheerful, happy, decent, gleeful -
sadadjective
Appearing sorrowful.
The puppy had a sad little face.
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pitiful, sorry, lamentableAntonyms:
happy, gleeful, upbeat, decent, cheerful -
sadadjective
Causing sorrow; lamentable.
It’s a sad fact that most rapes go unreported.
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pitiful, sorry, lamentableAntonyms:
gleeful, decent, upbeat, cheerful, happy -
sadadjective
Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
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pitiful, lamentable, sorryAntonyms:
decent, gleeful, upbeat, cheerful, happy -
sadadjective
Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
I can’t believe you use drugs; you’re so sad!
Synonyms:
pitiful, lamentable, sorryAntonyms:
decent, happy, gleeful, cheerful, upbeat
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.7 / 3 votes
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sad
Synonyms:
heavy, grave, dull, sorrowful, woe-begone, calamitous, dismal, doleful, mournful, gloomy, dejected, depressed, cheerless, serious, downcast, grievous, melancholy, saturnineAntonyms:
light, light-hearted, cheerful, joyful, joyous, gay, glad, exhilarating, exhilarated, happy, blithe
Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:3.2 / 6 votes
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sadadjective
experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness
«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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deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, distressing, sorryAntonyms:
glad, joyful, good, gladsome -
sadadjective
of things that make you feel sad
«sad news»; «she doesn’t like sad movies»; «it was a very sad story»; «When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me»- Christina Rossetti
Synonyms:
deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, distressing, sorryAntonyms:
joyful, gladsome, glad, good -
deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorryadjective
bad; unfortunate
«my finances were in a deplorable state»; «a lamentable decision»; «her clothes were in sad shape»; «a sorry state of affairs»
Synonyms:
regretful, deplorable, hapless, no-account, reprehensible, woeful, dismal, troubling, execrable, dingy, disconsolate, perturbing, no-count, good-for-nothing, miserable, worrying, criminal, no-good, vicious, disturbing, dark, grim, sad, piteous, condemnable, lamentable, worrisome, misfortunate, pitiable, distressing, bad, poor, pathetic, wretched, sorry, pitiful, gloomy, drab, distressful, dreary, drear, good-for-naught, blue, meritlessAntonyms:
joyful, gladsome, good, glad
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melancholy
a feeling of sorrow; normally with no cause
«for some reason he felt melancholy when she woke up»
Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019
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grinch
not happy
Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019
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subaerialverb
being subaerial makes me sad so the similarities is present for those with similar interests in the word subaerial.
i am sadsubaerial
Submitted by anonymous on May 24, 2022
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sulked
not happy or disappointed
Submitted by anonymous on May 5, 2021
Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote
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sadadjective
Synonyms:
sorrowful, desponding, depressed, downcast, melancholy, cheerless, disconsolate, crest-fallen, chap-fallen, cast down -
sadadjective
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gloomy, dismal, doleful, mournful, lugubrious, grievous, woebegone -
sadadjective
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grievous, afflictive, calamitous, disastrous, dire, deplorable
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sadadjective
Synonyms:
sorrowful, pathetic, plaintive, doleful, piteous, lugubrious, rueful, mournful, dismal, funereal, gloomy, melancholy, disconsolate, dejected, touching, calamitous, deplorable, grievous, dire, afflictive, wretched, saturnine, grave, sober, dull, sombre, subdued, bad, naughty, troublesome, mischievous, vexatious
PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:4.0 / 2 votes
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List of paraphrases for «sad»:
regrettable, unfortunate, sadness, unhappy, triste, tragic, saddened, depressing, deplorable, saddening, miserable, gloomy, lamentable, grim, dismal, sorry, distressing, upset, sorrowful, pitiful, sob, painful, bleak, dss, ods, wretched, dreary, das, boring, sadly
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How to use SAD in a sentence?
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Meghan McCain:
There’s one part when I was talking about reliving the moment that my dad passed and I had to do it like, I mean, like eight times because I kept crying, i told my editor, ‘If you want to keep the emotion, you can.’ Like, it’s sad, it’s so hard to talk about. It’s still hard for me to relive and that s—t is real and honest. And people, even if they don’t like me, I think they respect that.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Rough wind, that moanest loudGrief too sad for songWild wind, when sullen cloudKnells all the night longSad storm, whose tears are vain,Bare woods, whose branches strain,Deep caves and dreary main, — Wail, for the world’s wrong
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So my advice to everyone out there who’s frustrated, sad, angry, pissed off: Feel those emotions, go to a kickboxing class, have a margarita, do whatever you need to do this weekend, and then wake up on Monday morning. We’ve got to keep fighting.
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Melania Trump:
I think a lot of people are struggling and suffering and what is going on around the world as well. So it’s very sad to see and I hope it changes fast.
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Michelle Keith:
I want to cry but what’s crying going to do ? It’s just sad, so sad.
Translations for SAD
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- مؤسف, حزينArabic
- сумныBelarusian
- দুঃখিতBengali
- lamentable, trista, deplorable, patètic, tristCatalan, Valencian
- smutnýCzech
- tristDanish
- traurig, tristGerman
- λυπημένοςGreek
- malgajaEsperanto
- tristeSpanish
- goibelBasque
- غمگینPersian
- säälittävä, synkkä, surullinen, surkeaFinnish
- tristeFrench
- brónachIrish
- gruamach, brònach, dubhachScottish Gaelic
- tristeGalician
- उदास, दुखीHindi
- szomorúHungarian
- տխուրArmenian
- sedihIndonesian
- tristaIdo
- dapurIcelandic
- tristeItalian
- 悲しいJapanese
- მწუხარე, ნაღვლიანი, დარდიანი, სევდიანიGeorgian
- maestus, tristisLatin
- traueregLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- skumjš, bēdīgsLatvian
- hinapouriMāori
- triestDutch
- lei seg, tristNorwegian
- smutnyPolish
- خواشينی, غمجن, خپهPashto, Pushto
- tristePortuguese
- tristă, abătută, abătut, tristRomanian
- грустный, печальныйRussian
- खिन्नSanskrit
- žalostanSerbo-Croatian
- smutnýSlovak
- ledsen, sorgsenSwedish
- வருத்தம்Tamil
- üzgünTurkish
- сму́тнийUkrainian
- اداس, دکھیUrdu
- buồnVietnamese
- 伤心Chinese
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Similar words for sad:
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all (adjective)
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bad (adjective)
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black (adjective)
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bleak (adjective)
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brokenhearted (adjective)
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cheerless (adjective)
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contemptible (adjective)
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crestfallen (adjective)
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crying (adjective)
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dejected (adjective)
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demoralized (adjective)
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deplorable (adjective)
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depressed (adjective)
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depressing (adjective)
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despairing (adjective)
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desperate (adjective)
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despondent (adjective)
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disappointed (adjective)
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disconsolate (adjective)
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discouraged (adjective)
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dismal (adjective)
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dispiriting (adjective)
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doleful (adjective)
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dolorous (adjective)
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downcast (adjective)
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down in the mouth (adjective)
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dreary (adjective)
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elegiac (adjective)
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frail (adjective)
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funereal (adjective)
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gloomy (adjective)
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grave (adjective)
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grievous (adjective)
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heartbroken (adjective)
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heartrending (adjective)
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heavy (adjective)
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hopeless (adjective)
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hurt (adjective)
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inconsolable (adjective)
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inferior (adjective)
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joyless (adjective)
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lamentable (adjective)
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lamenting (adjective)
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languishing (adjective)
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low (adjective)
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low-grade (adjective)
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low-quality (adjective)
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lugubrious (adjective)
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miserable (adjective)
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moody (adjective)
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morose (adjective)
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mournful (adjective)
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murky (adjective)
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other relevant words (adjective)
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penitential (adjective)
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pessimistic (adjective)
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piteous (adjective)
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pitiful (adjective)
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plaintive (adjective)
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poignant (adjective)
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regrettable (adjective)
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remorseful (adjective)
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ruthful (adjective)
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sad (adjective)
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second-class (adjective)
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sorrowful (adjective)
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sorry (adjective)
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subdued (adjective)
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tearful (adjective)
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tragic (adjective)
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unsavory (adjective)
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wistful (adjective)
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bittersweet (noun)
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cabin fever (noun)
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inferior (noun)
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other relevant words (noun)
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sad (noun)
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seasonal affective disorder (noun)
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depressing (verb)
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displeased (verb)
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anxious
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cheerless
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despondent
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disheartened
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forlorn
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in low spirits
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pathological
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sorry
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unhappy
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adj.
• all (adjective)
- sad.
• bad (adjective)
- bottom out,
- cruddy,
- the pits,
- not good,
- up set,
- grody,
- godawful.
• black (adjective)
- foreboding,
- sombrer,
- threatening,
- depressive,
- horrible,
- sombre,
- ominous,
- sinister.
• bleak (adjective)
- lonely,
- hopeless,
- comfortless,
- harsh,
- grim,
- hard.
• brokenhearted (adjective)
- inconsolable.
• cheerless (adjective)
- blue,
- woeful,
- sullen,
- dull,
- austere,
- drab,
- tenebrific,
- jarring,
- uncomfortable,
- desolate,
- wintry,
- mopey.
• contemptible (adjective)
- beggarly,
- outcast,
- hateful,
- scummy,
- vile,
- disgusting,
- heel,
- ignoble,
- crass,
- unworthy,
- abhorrent,
- odious,
- lowest,
- mean,
- paltry,
- sordid,
- ignominious,
- abject,
- detestable,
- worthless,
- degenerate,
- base,
- dirty.
• crestfallen (adjective)
- in a funk,
- dispirited,
- ass in a sling,
- cast down,
- singing the blues,
- taken down,
- down in the dumps,
- down in dumps,
- chapfallen,
- disheartened.
• crying (adjective)
- lachrymose.
• dejected (adjective)
- despondent,
- glum,
- contemplative,
- shot down,
- pensive,
- Mopish,
- melancholy,
- atrabilious,
- all torn up,
- broody,
- overcome,
- anxious,
- bummed out,
- gloomy,
- in the pits,
- morose.
• demoralized (adjective)
- unnerved,
- de-moralized,
- de moralized,
- more unnerved,
- un-nerved,
- un nerved,
- most unnerved.
• deplorable (adjective)
- scandalous,
- opprobrious.
• depressed (adjective)
- in a blue funk,
- dysphoric,
- low,
- unhappy,
- tristful,
- melancholic,
- torn up,
- in the toilet,
- on a downer,
- cast-down,
- in pain,
- down and out,
- mouth.
• depressing (adjective)
- most saddening,
- most daunting,
- de pressing,
- more saddening,
- de-pressing,
- more daunting.
• despairing (adjective)
- at end one’s rope,
- at end rope,
- most no-win,
- at end of one rope,
- at end of ones rope,
- most sunk,
- more no-win,
- more no win,
- more sunk,
- more nowin,
- in soup,
- most nowin,
- at end ones rope,
- nowin,
- at end one rope,
- grief stricken,
- no win,
- most no win,
- not prayer,
- more strabilious,
- cant win,
- most strabilious.
• desperate (adjective)
- more desponding,
- more irretrievable,
- more no chance,
- more no-chance,
- more no-way,
- most no-chance,
- running out time,
- most goner,
- more goner,
- most irrecoverable,
- most irretrievable,
- most noway,
- back wall,
- nochance,
- back the wall,
- most no way,
- most no-way,
- most desponding,
- more nochance,
- most no chance,
- more no way,
- more noway,
- more irrecoverable,
- most nochance,
- up creek,
- no-chance,
- back to wall.
• despondent (adjective)
- more bummed out,
- more bummedout,
- more grieving,
- more mourning,
- most bummedout,
- most mourning,
- most bummed out,
- most bummed-out,
- more bummed-out,
- most grieving,
- bummedout.
• disappointed (adjective)
- crestfallen.
• disconsolate (adjective)
- dis-tressed,
- more torn up,
- more torn-up,
- more tornup,
- most torn-up,
- tornup,
- most crushed,
- most torn up,
- more crushed,
- most tornup,
- dis tressed.
• discouraged (adjective)
- dis mayed,
- caved in,
- more beatdown,
- more down-in-mouth,
- more beat-down,
- gone pieces,
- most down in mouth,
- more beat down,
- most cavedin,
- most beatdown,
- more deterred,
- more daunted,
- more cavedin,
- cavedin,
- most come apart,
- most daunted,
- most deterred,
- beatdown,
- comeapart,
- more comeapart,
- more caved in,
- most beat down,
- more down in mouth,
- most dismayed,
- more dismayed,
- most down-in-mouth,
- most caved in,
- most caved-in,
- dis-mayed,
- most beat-down,
- more come-apart,
- more caved-in,
- more come apart,
- lost momentum,
- most come-apart,
- most comeapart.
• dismal (adjective)
- over cast,
- dis-agreeable,
- in auspicious,
- inauspicious,
- un fortunate,
- over-cast,
- in-auspicious,
- un-fortunate,
- overcast,
- dis agreeable.
• dispiriting (adjective)
- de-moralizing,
- de moralizing.
• doleful (adjective)
- doleful,
- Dirgeful,
- Dolent.
• dolorous (adjective)
- more dolesome,
- most dolesome,
- most heart-rending,
- heart rending,
- more heart-rending,
- most heart rending,
- more dolorific,
- most dolorific,
- more heart rending.
• downcast (adjective)
- down-in-the-mouth.
• down in the mouth (adjective)
- down in mouth,
- down the mouth,
- low in spirits,
- down mouth,
- low spirits.
• dreary (adjective)
- un interesting,
- un-eventful,
- un-interesting,
- un eventful.
• elegiac (adjective)
- threnodial,
- more threnodial,
- most threnodial.
• frail (adjective)
- in substantial,
- wimpiest,
- more shatterable,
- un-soundest,
- most fracturable,
- wishywashy,
- wimpier,
- most shattery,
- un substantial,
- most shatterable,
- un sounder,
- un-sounder,
- more shattery,
- in-substantial,
- in-firmer,
- wishy-washy,
- wishy washy,
- un-substantial,
- un-sound,
- un sound,
- more fracturable,
- in firmer,
- in-firmest,
- in firmest.
• funereal (adjective)
- dirgelike.
• gloomy (adjective)
- more moping,
- most moping,
- most crabbed,
- most mirthless,
- more mirthless.
• grave (adjective)
- grimfaced,
- more grim faced,
- most longfaced,
- most grim faced,
- un-smiling,
- ponderous,
- most long-faced,
- more muted,
- more long faced,
- more unsmiling,
- most grim-faced,
- more grimfaced,
- un smiling,
- more longfaced,
- most unsmiling,
- most grimfaced,
- most muted,
- longfaced,
- grim faced,
- more long-faced,
- unsmiling,
- long faced,
- most long faced,
- more grim-faced,
- nononsense.
• grievous (adjective)
- dis quieting,
- most afflicting,
- up-setting,
- egregious,
- more wounding,
- up setting,
- dis-quieting,
- most wounding,
- more afflicting.
• heartbroken (adjective)
- most heartsore,
- more heartsore.
• heartrending (adjective)
- heartsickening.
• heavy (adjective)
- sodden.
• hopeless (adjective)
- helpless,
- past hope,
- beyond recall,
- desperate,
- irredeemable,
- unmitigable,
- irremediable,
- unachievable.
• hurt (adjective)
- Mauled,
- more bruised,
- more mauled,
- most bruised,
- most contused,
- most marred,
- most mauled,
- most buffeted,
- more suffering,
- more scratched,
- more tortured,
- struck,
- more nicked,
- dis-figured,
- more hit,
- most agonized,
- more lacerated,
- more marred,
- more warped,
- more scarred,
- more scraped,
- most scarred,
- pained,
- shookest,
- more disfigured,
- most tortured,
- wounded,
- most battered,
- more grazed,
- more contused,
- more cut,
- most hit,
- warped,
- most grazed,
- more shot,
- more piqued,
- more buffeted,
- most cut,
- more agonized,
- dis figured,
- more battered,
- most suffering,
- most nicked,
- shooker,
- most piqued,
- most warped,
- most scraped,
- miffed,
- most disfigured,
- most lacerated,
- most shot,
- most scratched.
• inconsolable (adjective)
- unconsolable.
• inferior (adjective)
- two bit,
- tawdry,
- poorer,
- good-for-nothing,
- low-rent,
- low-grade,
- most inferior,
- low-quality,
- junker,
- middling.
• joyless (adjective)
- have blahs,
- more depressant,
- most depressant.
• lamentable (adjective)
- god awful,
- more god-awful,
- more god awful,
- most god awful,
- un-favorable,
- un favorable,
- most god-awful.
• lamenting (adjective)
- elegiac,
- more regretting,
- most regretting.
• languishing (adjective)
- most pining,
- more pining.
• low (adjective)
- lower.
• low-grade (adjective)
- lowgrade,
- low grade.
• low-quality (adjective)
- lowquality.
• lugubrious (adjective)
- Woful.
• miserable (adjective)
- dis contented,
- poverty stricken,
- most anguished,
- more racked,
- Racked,
- more anguished,
- most discontented,
- more tormented,
- most racked,
- dis-contented,
- most tormented,
- povertystricken.
• moody (adjective)
- ill tempered,
- in huff,
- more ill humored,
- most ill humored,
- illtempered,
- most illhumored,
- more illhumored,
- more splenetic,
- most splenetic,
- introspective,
- short tempered,
- ill-humored,
- most ill-humored,
- shorttempered,
- more ill-humored,
- out sorts,
- ill humored,
- illhumored,
- splenetic.
• morose (adjective)
- having blahs,
- more perversive,
- most perversive.
• mournful (adjective)
- be reft,
- be-reft,
- full sorrow.
• murky (adjective)
- dunest,
- dusk,
- dusker,
- most glowering,
- more darkened,
- more glowering,
- most darkened,
- most nubilous,
- mis-tier,
- un cleanest,
- un-cleaner,
- un clean,
- mis tier,
- duskest,
- un-cleanest,
- duner,
- more nubilous,
- un cleaner.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)
- dismal,
- unsavory,
- heavy,
- downhearted,
- no-win,
- Despisable,
- Heeler,
- self-reproachful,
- dun,
- goner,
- running out of time,
- dejected,
- at end of one’s rope,
- in a huff,
- distressing,
- Commiserable,
- having blue devils,
- currish,
- contused,
- sorrowful,
- back to the wall,
- grim-faced,
- heartrending,
- come apart,
- torn-up,
- Languishing,
- have the blahs,
- no-way,
- Dolorific,
- scummier,
- swinish,
- draggy,
- low-down,
- mirthless,
- sorry,
- low quality,
- grievous,
- contemptible,
- miserable,
- discouraged,
- perversive,
- no way,
- fatalistic,
- heart-rending,
- heartsore,
- Drearisome,
- irrecoverable,
- in the doldrums,
- inferior,
- murky,
- in low spirits,
- fracturable,
- lamenting,
- no chance,
- guilt-ridden,
- demoralized,
- poignant,
- in blue funk,
- in mourning,
- come-apart,
- not a prayer,
- Shattery,
- drear,
- no nonsense,
- low key,
- in bad mood,
- grave,
- lamentable,
- downcast,
- can’t win,
- cold sober,
- in the soup,
- full of sorrow,
- mournful,
- piteous,
- subdued,
- Nubilous,
- busted up,
- in sorrow,
- dreary,
- scurvy,
- in doldrums,
- saturnine,
- down,
- dead duck,
- plaintive,
- pessimistic,
- depressed,
- beefing,
- down in the mouth,
- having the blahs,
- deplorable,
- hurt,
- depressing,
- grousing,
- sick at heart,
- beat down,
- lowdown,
- in despair,
- griefstricken,
- Dolesome,
- attritional,
- shatterable,
- frail,
- Noway,
- long-faced,
- regrettable,
- in a bad mood,
- god-awful,
- joyless,
- up against it,
- strictly business,
- tragic,
- weeping,
- despairing,
- anguished,
- heavyhearted,
- pitiful,
- strabilious,
- lugubrious,
- up the creek,
- down-in-mouth,
- out of spirits,
- bummed-out,
- caved-in,
- cheerless,
- wistful,
- wimpy,
- irretrievable,
- moody,
- gone to pieces,
- unpromising,
- bad,
- heartbroken,
- at end of rope,
- remorseful,
- in firm,
- dolorous,
- beat-down,
- disconsolate.
• penitential (adjective)
- penitential.
• pessimistic (adjective)
- dis-trustful,
- re-signed,
- re signed,
- dis trustful,
- mis anthropic,
- most fatalistic,
- mis-anthropic,
- more fatalistic.
• piteous (adjective)
- most commiserable,
- more imploring,
- more supplicating,
- more beseeching,
- most imploring,
- most entreating,
- most beseeching,
- most supplicating,
- more commiserable,
- more entreating.
• pitiful (adjective)
- pitiable,
- rueful.
• plaintive (adjective)
- more beefing,
- most beefing,
- most wailing,
- wailing,
- more wailing,
- most grousing,
- more bellyaching,
- most bellyaching,
- more grousing.
• poignant (adjective)
- in tense,
- in-tense,
- in tenser,
- in-tenser,
- most agitating,
- more agitating,
- in-tensest.
• regrettable (adjective)
- dis appointing,
- dis-appointing,
- illadvised.
• remorseful (adjective)
- selfreproachful,
- most attritional,
- most self-reproachful,
- more guiltridden,
- most chastened,
- guiltridden,
- more self reproachful,
- more guilt-ridden,
- more chastened,
- more selfreproachful,
- most guilt ridden,
- guilt ridden,
- more guilt ridden,
- most guilt-ridden,
- more self-reproachful,
- most selfreproachful,
- most guiltridden,
- self reproachful,
- most self reproachful,
- more attritional.
• ruthful (adjective)
- ruthful.
• sad (adjective)
- disastrous,
- hapless,
- wretched,
- bereaved,
- calamitous,
- tear-jerking,
- serious,
- saddening,
- troubled,
- shabby,
- pathetic,
- Dejecting,
- forlorn,
- in the dumps,
- dark,
- low-spirited,
- out of sorts,
- unsatisfactory,
- in grief,
- tearful,
- hurting,
- Discomposing.
• second-class (adjective)
- second-class.
• sorrowful (adjective)
- sick heart.
• sorry (adjective)
- un-important.
• subdued (adjective)
- in-obtrusive,
- more tempered,
- lowkey,
- un-obtrusive,
- most softened,
- re strained,
- out spirits,
- more softened,
- un obtrusive,
- most tempered,
- tempered,
- re-pressed,
- re pressed,
- more repressed,
- most moderated,
- re-strained,
- in obtrusive,
- shaded,
- most repressed,
- sub missive,
- more moderated.
• tearful (adjective)
- blubbery,
- teary,
- in tears.
• tragic (adjective)
- illstarred,
- most crushing,
- ill starred,
- more crushing,
- ill-starred.
• unsavory (adjective)
- no good.
• wistful (adjective)
- most yearning,
- more yearning.
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n.
-
•
- discordant,
- atonal,
- acoustic,
- classical,
- disquieting,
- funereal,
- harmonic,
- funky,
- oppressive,
- bluesy,
- bass,
- harmonious,
- dire,
- flat,
- moving.
-
•
- flawed,
- born,
- classy,
- adaptive,
- Clingy,
- flexible,
- constitutionally,
- badass,
- addictive,
- babyish.
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•
- beriberi,
- anorexia,
- anthrax,
- ague,
- botulism,
- blood poisoning,
- appendicitis,
- bronchitis,
- altitude sickness,
- Alzheimer’s Disease.
-
•
- humdrum,
- mind-numbing,
- uninteresting,
- boring,
- tedious,
- uninspired,
- trivial,
- unexciting.
• bittersweet (noun)
- bittersweet.
• cabin fever (noun)
- neurosis,
- temporary insanity,
- restlessness,
- Seasonal Affective Disorder,
- distress.
• inferior (noun)
- cheap,
- common,
- second class.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- melancholia,
- climbing the walls,
- seasonal depression,
- claustrophobia,
- cabin fever,
- mild depression,
- Melancholias,
- winter blues,
- SADS.
• sad (noun)
- tragicomic,
- tragicomical,
- yearning,
- tragical.
• seasonal affective disorder (noun)
- seasonal depressions,
- mild depressions.
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v.
• depressing (verb)
- chill.
• displeased (verb)
- disappointed.
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Other synonyms:
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•
- discouraging,
- shattering,
- dismayed,
- hangdog,
- relieved,
- grief-stricken,
- sepulchral,
- harassed,
- losing,
- gut-wrenching,
- Grieved,
- soul-destroying,
- devastated,
- Broken-hearted,
- funny,
- unfulfilled,
- disheartening,
- affecting,
- lovelorn,
- shattered,
- unquiet,
- upsetting,
- deflated,
- melting,
- grumpy,
- bleak,
- homesick,
- choked up,
- heartsick,
- screwed up,
- dispiriting.
-
•
- somber,
- sentimental,
- woefully,
- flattened,
- regretfully,
- claustrophobic,
- sulky,
- painful,
- agonizing,
- unfortunate,
- oppressed,
- suicidal,
- cut-up,
- touching.
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•
- downbeat,
- injured,
- sadly,
- distressed.
-
•
- black,
- cranky,
- terrible,
- bitter.
• anxious
- careworn.
• cheerless
- heartbreaking.
• despondent
- woebegone,
- brokenhearted.
• disheartened
- broken.
• forlorn
- heavy-hearted.
• in low spirits
- spiritless.
• Other relevant words:
- colour,
- apple,
- dough,
- gecko,
- song,
- spectacle,
- duty,
- coward,
- business,
- glory,
- picture,
- failure,
- bread,
- sack,
- flirt,
- excuse,
- truth,
- floppers,
- hair,
- drunkard,
- misfortune,
- mistake,
- look,
- demise,
- face,
- iron,
- night,
- dog,
- trash,
- case,
- disappointment,
- true,
- rogue,
- flycatcher,
- rip,
- event,
- attempt,
- incident.
• pathological
- morbid.
• sorry
- badly.
• unhappy
- discontented.
How to use «Sad» in context?
There is no single answer to what makes someone feel sad, but often it can be a combination of factors like loneliness, trouble at work, or emotional pain from a prior relationship. Whatever the cause, sadness can be a crippling emotional state that can make everything seem bleak. But, as with all things in life, there is hope. Knowing what to do when you’re feeling sad and how to get through it can make all the difference. Here are five tips for coping with sadness:
1. Recognize that sadness is normal. Sadness is a response to the various things that can upset us, and it’s perfectly natural.
Paraphrases for Sad:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
sorrowful.
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Adjective
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
saddening.
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Verb, past participle
Saddened.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
agonizing, appalling, boring, desperate, despicable, difficult, dire, disastrous, discouraging, disgusting, distressed, dreadful, dubious, frustrating, grim, harsh, inconvenient, infamous, mad, nasty, poignant, sinister, sobering, stark, unsatisfactory, sob.
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Proper noun, singular
Ods, Tas, Cas, DCS, DDCS.
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Verb, past participle
broken, depressed.
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Verb, base form
Triste.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
annoying, awful, bitter, bleak, deplorable, depressed, depressing, disagreeable, disappointed, disappointing, disgraceful, disheartening, dismal, distressing, disturbing, dreary, dull, embarrassing, gloomy, grievous, hapless, heartbroken, lonely, miserable, painful, regretful, regrettable, shameful, sombre, tedious, terrible, tragic, ugly, uncomfortable, unhappy, unpleasant, woeful, Grieved, Saddened.
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Adverb
sadly.
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Verb, base form
regrettable.
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Adjective
Homophones for Sad:
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