sad
/ˈsæd/ adjective A1- Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful. · She gets sad when he's away.
- Appearing sorrowful. · The puppy had a sad little face.
- Causing sorrow; lamentable. · It's a sad fact that most rapes go unreported.
- Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor. · That's the saddest-looking pickup truck I've ever seen.
- Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
- Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable. · You’d have to be really sad to wear a shirt like that.
Comparative sadder · Superlative saddest
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They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break.
“I am an evil man-cub, and my stomach is sad in me.”
“H’m!” said Rikki-tikki, “that is very sad--but I am a stranger here.
But I feel very sad.
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