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say it: sad
sad is an adjective meaning "experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness". It carries 3 recorded senses.
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”
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”
bad; unfortunate
“my finances were in a deplorable state”
“a lamentable decision”
“her clothes were in sad shape”
“a sorry state of affairs”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sad come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.