Synonyms for sad
sædsad

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.9 / 8 votes

1. sadadjective

   Antonyms:
   upbeat, cheerful, gleeful, happy, decent

2. sadadjective

   soggy (to refer to pastries).

   Synonyms:
   lamentable, pitiful, sorry

   Antonyms:
   gleeful, decent, happy, cheerful, upbeat

3. sadadjective

   Synonyms:
   uncomfortable, discomforted, distressed, unhappy

4. sadadjective

   Synonyms:
   glum, down in the dumps, melancholy, depressed

5. sadadjective

   Synonyms:
   touching, poignant

6. sadadjective

   Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.

   Synonyms:
   pitiful, sorry, lamentable

   Antonyms:
   cheerful, happy, decent, gleeful, upbeat

7. sadadjective

   Steadfast, valiant.

   Synonyms:
   pitiful, lamentable, sorry

   Antonyms:
   decent, cheerful, happy, upbeat, gleeful

8. sadadjective

   Dignified, serious, grave.

   Synonyms:
   sorry, pitiful, lamentable

   Antonyms:
   decent, cheerful, happy, gleeful, upbeat

9. sadadjective

   Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.

   Synonyms:
   lamentable, sorry, pitiful

   Antonyms:
   decent, upbeat, happy, gleeful, cheerful

10. sadadjective

    Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.

    She gets sad when he's away.

    Synonyms:
    lamentable, pitiful, sorry

    Antonyms:
    upbeat, cheerful, happy, decent, gleeful

11. sadadjective

    Appearing sorrowful.

    The puppy had a sad little face.

    Synonyms:
    pitiful, sorry, lamentable

    Antonyms:
    happy, gleeful, upbeat, decent, cheerful

12. sadadjective

    Causing sorrow; lamentable.

    It's a sad fact that most rapes go unreported.

    Synonyms:
    pitiful, sorry, lamentable

    Antonyms:
    gleeful, decent, upbeat, cheerful, happy

13. sadadjective

    Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.

    Synonyms:
    pitiful, lamentable, sorry

    Antonyms:
    decent, gleeful, upbeat, cheerful, happy

14. sadadjective

    Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.

    I can't believe you use drugs; you're so sad!

    Synonyms:
    pitiful, lamentable, sorry

    Antonyms:
    decent, happy, gleeful, cheerful, upbeat

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.7 / 3 votes

1. sad

   Synonyms:
   heavy, grave, dull, sorrowful, woe-begone, calamitous, dismal, doleful, mournful, gloomy, dejected, depressed, cheerless, serious, downcast, grievous, melancholy, saturnine

   Antonyms:
   light, light-hearted, cheerful, joyful, joyous, gay, glad, exhilarating, exhilarated, happy, blithe

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.2 / 6 votes

1. sadadjective

   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

   Synonyms:
   deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, distressing, sorry

   Antonyms:
   glad, joyful, good, gladsome

2. sadadjective

   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

   Synonyms:
   deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, distressing, sorry

   Antonyms:
   joyful, gladsome, glad, good

3. deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorryadjective

   bad; unfortunate

   "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"

   Synonyms:
   regretful, deplorable, hapless, no-account, reprehensible, woeful, dismal, troubling, execrable, dingy, disconsolate, perturbing, no-count, good-for-nothing, miserable, worrying, criminal, no-good, vicious, disturbing, dark, grim, piteous, condemnable, lamentable, worrisome, misfortunate, pitiable, distressing, bad, poor, pathetic, wretched, sorry, pitiful, gloomy, drab, distressful, dreary, drear, good-for-naught, blue, meritless

   Antonyms:
   joyful, gladsome, good, glad

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. melancholy

   a feeling of sorrow; normally with no cause

   "for some reason he felt melancholy when she woke up"

   Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019  

2. grinch

   not happy

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

3. subaerialverb

   being subaerial makes me sad so the similarities is present for those with similar interests in the word subaerial.

   i am sad\subaerial

   Submitted by anonymous on May 24, 2022  

4. sulked

   not happy or disappointed

   Submitted by anonymous on May 5, 2021  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. sadadjective

   Synonyms:
   sorrowful, desponding, depressed, downcast, melancholy, cheerless, disconsolate, crest-fallen, chap-fallen, cast down

2. sadadjective

   Synonyms:
   gloomy, dismal, doleful, mournful, lugubrious, grievous, woebegone

3. sadadjective

   Synonyms:
   grievous, afflictive, calamitous, disastrous, dire, deplorable

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sadadjective

   Synonyms:
   sorrowful, pathetic, plaintive, doleful, piteous, lugubrious, rueful, mournful, dismal, funereal, gloomy, melancholy, disconsolate, dejected, touching, calamitous, deplorable, grievous, dire, afflictive, wretched, saturnine, grave, sober, dull, sombre, subdued, bad, naughty, troublesome, mischievous, vexatious

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:4.0 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "sad":

   regrettable, unfortunate, sadness, unhappy, triste, tragic, saddened, depressing, deplorable, saddening, miserable, gloomy, lamentable, grim, dismal, sorry, distressing, upset, sorrowful, pitiful, sob, painful, bleak, dss, ods, wretched, dreary, das, boring, sadly

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How to use sad in a sentence?

1. Colin Crooks:

   Sad to say farewell this morning to colleagues from German Embassy and French Office in North Korea which are closing temporarily, british Embassy remains open.

2. Gary McNamara:

   When I went to high school, there were people that were incredibly sad that it was over. I was like, “YEE-HAW!!!!!!”

3. Brett Healy:

   The accusation is so juvenile and ludicrous it cannot be taken seriously, if this rumor was even remotely credible, someone here in Wisconsin would have alerted the media and filed a complaint with the Elections Commission. Rural Wisconsin voters, who have a history of voting Democrat in presidential elections, decided that they had enough of the far left policies of President Obama and they took it out on Clinton. For the Democratic Party to attempt to blame their widespread defeat on an imaginary bogeyman is comical and a little sad.

4. Susi Pudjiastuti:

   I'm very sad. I lose my eating appetite. I lose my sleep, they are building up an empire on slavery, on stealing, on fish( ing) out, on massive environmental destruction for a plate of seafood.

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.