sad

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adjective

ˈsad

sadder; saddest

Synonyms of sad next

: affected with or expressive of grief or unhappiness : downcast

b(1)

: causing or associated with grief or unhappiness : depressing

sad news

(2)

: regrettable, deplorable

a sad relaxation of morals—

C. W. Cunnington

: of little worth

: of a dull somber color

sadness noun

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Examples of sad in a Sentence

Adjective He's feeling sad because his pet died. People were sad that he was leaving. The experience left her sadder but wiser. Have you heard the sad news about his wife's illness? It'll be a sad day when you leave us. a movie with a sad ending He lived a sad life. The sad fact of the matter is that they are right. The new version is a sad imitation of the original movie. We needed more money but, sad to say, there wasn't any. See More

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

In a sad bit of coincidence, the Hollywood, Health & Society at the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center honored its 2023 Sentinel Awards winners on Wednesday night, just hours after the passing of its namesake and inspiration, the legendary Norman Lear. —

Michael Schneider, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023 Heaven Is a Junkyard’s celestial wasteland is a sad scene, but its lasting note is joyful and enduring. —

Pitchfork, 6 Dec. 2023 Feeling the recent loss of her son, a former Barton student, Mary gets to drinking whiskey and playing sad Christmas music on the stereo. —

Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023 That Haynes is able to wring something both funny and sad, moving and disturbing out of what could otherwise be tabloid pulp is what sets him apart. —

Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2023 Researchers found that the activity in the hippocampus followed similar patterns of activity among all of the subjects when they were reminded of sad or relaxing experiences. —

Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2023 Abraham Ángel: Between Wonder and Seduction is the new, sweet, and sad exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art (the DMA). —

Brian T. Allen, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023 Maybe, but then there were reminders that, in our sad present, studios were making complex digital scans of background performers and digitizing dead actors. —

Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2023 The sad factor is that this was apparently put into production shortly before Jamal died this year, as the notes refer to him as a supervisor on the project, and not in the past tense. —

Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Nov. 2023 See More

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