sad
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness
feeling sad because his dog had died
Related & opposite
- glad antonym
- sadness derivation
- sorrowfulness derivation
- bittersweet similar to
- doleful similar to
- heavyhearted similar to
- melancholy similar to
- wistful similar to
- tragic similar to
- tragicomical similar to
Sense 2 adjective
of things that make you feel sad
sad news
Related & opposite
- lugubriousness derivation
- sorrowful similar to
Sense 3 adjective
bad; unfortunate
my finances were in a deplorable state
Related & opposite
- lugubriousness derivation
- paltriness derivation
- bewail derivation
- bad similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | glad |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sadness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sorrowfulness |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | bittersweet |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | doleful |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | heavyhearted |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | melancholy |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | wistful |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | tragic |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | tragicomical |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lugubriousness |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | sorrowful |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | lugubriousness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | paltriness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | bewail |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | bad |