sad

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Feeling unhappy, especially because something bad has happened.

   I was feeling sad because my dog had died.

2. 2
   adj

   Making you feel unhappy.

   It was sad news about the factory closing.

3. 3
   adj

   Very disappointing or unacceptable.

   It's a sad state of affairs when people can't afford food.

Common collocations

• sad melody Adjective + noun
• sad spectacle Adjective + noun
• immeasurably sad Adverb + adjective

From Middle English sad, from Old English sæd (“satisfied, full, sated, unable to handle more, weary”), from Proto-West Germanic *sad, from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated, satisfied”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, satisfy”). Cognate to Saterland Frisian sääd, West Frisian sêd, Dutch zat, German Low German satt, German satt. The interjection sense is a reference to frequent usage of the word as an interjection in the tweets of Donald Trump, American businessman and politician (born 1946), President of the United States (2017–2021; a Trumpism.

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