Sad

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sad \Sad\ (s[a^]d), a. [Compar. {Sadder} (s[a^]d"d[~e]r);
     superl. {Saddest}.] [OE. sad sated, tired, satisfied, firm,
     steadfast, AS. saed satisfied, sated; akin to D. zat, OS.
     sad, G. satt, OHG. sat, Icel. sa[eth]r, saddr, Goth.
     sa[thorn]s, Lith. sotus, L. sat, satis, enough, satur sated,
     Gr. 'a`menai to satiate, 'a`dnh enough. Cf. {Assets}, {Sate},


     {Satiate}, {Satisfy}, {Satire}.]
     1. Sated; satisfied; weary; tired. [Obs.]
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              Yet of that art they can not waxen sad,
              For unto them it is a bitter sweet.   --Chaucer.
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     2. Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard. [Obs., except in a
        few phrases; as, sad bread.]
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              His hand, more sad than lump of lead. --Spenser.
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              Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad. --Mortimer.
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     3. Dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors. "Sad-colored
        clothes." --Walton.
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              Woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the
              foundation of all sad colors.         --Mortimer.
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     4. Serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous.
        [Obs.] "Ripe and sad courage." --Chaucer.
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              Lady Catharine, a sad and religious woman. --Bacon.
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              Which treaty was wisely handled by sad and discrete
              counsel of both parties.              --Ld. Berners.
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     5. Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with
        affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.
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              First were we sad, fearing you would not come;
              Now sadder, that you come so unprovided. --Shak.
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              The angelic guards ascended, mute and sad. --Milton.
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     6. Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow; as, a sad
        accident; a sad misfortune.
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     7. Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked. [Colloq.] "Sad
        tipsy fellows, both of them." --I. Taylor.
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     Note: Sad is sometimes used in the formation of
           self-explaining compounds; as, sad-colored, sad-eyed,
           sad-hearted, sad-looking, and the like.
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     {Sad bread}, heavy bread. [Scot. & Local, U.S.] --Bartlett.
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     Syn: Sorrowful; mournful; gloomy; dejected; depressed;
          cheerless; downcast; sedate; serious; grave; grievous;
          afflictive; calamitous.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sad \Sad\, v. t.
     To make sorrowful; to sadden. [Obs.]
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           How it sadded the minister's spirits!    --H. Peters.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  SAD \SAD\, n.
     Seasonal affective disorder. [Acron.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sad
       adj 1: experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad
              because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you
              should forget and smile / Than that you should
              remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti [ant: {glad}]
       2: of things that make you feel sad; "sad news"; "she doesn't
          like sad movies"; "it was a very sad story"; "When I am
          dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me"- Christina
          Rossetti
       3: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state";
          "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape";
          "a sorry state of affairs" [syn: {deplorable}, {distressing},
           {lamentable}, {pitiful}, {sorry}]
       [also: {saddest}, {sadder}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  307 Moby Thesaurus words for "sad":
     Quaker-colored, abominable, acier, affecting, afflictive,
     anguished, anxious, arrant, ashen, ashy, atrocious, awful,
     badly off, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, beneath one,
     bitter, blackish, blameworthy, bleak, blue, bored, brutal,
     canescent, cheap, cheerless, cheesy, cinereous, cinerous,
     comfortless, common, contemptible, creamy, crummy, dapple,
     dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dark-colored, darkish,
     darksome, debasing, degrading, dejected, delicate, demeaning,
     deplorable, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate,
     despicable, detestable, dingy, dire, discomforting, disgraceful,
     disgusted, disgusting, dismal, dismaying, dispirited, distressful,
     distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, donsie,
     doomful, dove-colored, dove-gray, down, downbeat, downcast,
     dreadful, drear, dreary, dull, dumpish, dumpy, dusk, dusky, dusty,
     eggshell, egregious, enormous, evil-starred, fatal, fetid, filthy,
     flagrant, flat, fortuneless, foul, fulsome, funereal, funest,
     gaudy, gimcracky, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, gloss, grave,
     gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green,
     gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grieving,
     grievous, grim, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, gross,
     gutter, hapless, hateful, heavy, heavyhearted, heinous, horrible,
     horrid, humiliating, humiliative, ill off, ill-starred,
     in adverse circumstances, inauspicious, infamous, infra dig,
     infra indignitatem, iridescent, iron-gray, joyless,
     laden with sorrow, lamentable, lead-gray, leaden, light, livid,
     loathsome, long-faced, lousy, luckless, mean, melancholic,
     melancholy, mellow, meretricious, mirthless, miserable, monstrous,
     morose, mother-of-pearl, mournful, mouse-colored, mouse-gray,
     mousy, moving, nacreous, nasty, nauseated, nauseous, nefarious,
     nigrescent, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive,
     ominous, opalescent, oppressed, opprobrious, out of luck,
     outrageous, painful, pale, paltry, pastel, pathetic, patinaed,
     pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, piteous, pitiable, pitiful,
     planet-struck, pleasureless, poignant, poor, prey to malaise,
     quiet, rank, regrettable, repelled, reprehensible, repulsive,
     revolted, rotten, rubbishy, rueful, sad of heart, sad-eyed,
     sad-faced, saddened, saddening, sadhearted, scandalous, schlock,
     scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, semigloss, shabby,
     shameful, sharp, shocking, shoddy, short of luck, sickened, silver,
     silver-gray, silvered, silvery, simple, slate-colored, slaty,
     smoke-gray, smoky, sober, soft, soft-colored, soft-hued, softened,
     somber, sombrous, sordid, sore, sorrowful, sorry, squalid,
     star-crossed, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, subdued, subtle,
     suffering angst, swart, swarthy, sweet, taupe, tear-jerking,
     tender, terrible, too bad, touching, trashy, triste, trumpery,
     two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny,
     unbecoming, unblessed, unclean, uncomfortable, underprivileged,
     uneasy, unfortunate, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unlucky,
     unprosperous, unprovidential, unquiet, unsatisfied,
     unworthy of one, valueless, vile, villainous, weighed upon,
     weighted down, woebegone, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  SAD
       Serial Analog Delay
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  SAD
       
          {Systems Analysis Definition}