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.

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Simplified etymology

Sad originally meant “having no more appetite” or “weary” in Old English. It comes from the same root as Latin satis, “enough,” suggesting the idea of being overly full or fed up; its senses then passed through “firm,” “constant,” “dignified,” and “sober” before reaching the modern meaning “unhappy” in the medieval period.

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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