sad — ODE · Shobdo

sad /sad

▸ adjective

( sadder, saddest)

1 feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy:

I was sad and subdued

they looked at her with sad, anxious faces.

▪ causing or characterized by sorrow or regret; unfortunate and regrettable:

he told her the sad story of his life

a sad day for us all.

2 informal pathetically inadequate or unfashionable:

the show is tongue-in-cheek—anyone who takes it seriously is a bit sad.

3 (of dough) heavy through having failed to rise.

– PHRASES

sad to say unfortunately, regrettably:

sad to say, science is no longer pure.

– DERIVATIVES

saddish adjective

– ORIGIN Old English sæd ‘sated, weary’, also ‘weighty, dense’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zat and German satt, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin satis ‘enough’. The original meaning was replaced in Middle English by the senses ‘steadfast, firm’ and ‘serious, sober’, and later ‘sorrowful’.