|
Popular Synonym - Sad
Synonyms Home -->
Synonyms --> sad (adj)
Synonyms: unhappy, miserable,
depressed, gloomy, down, blue,
wretched, dejected,
despondent, desolate, forlorn,
sorrowful, melancholy, woeful
Antonym: happy
Synonyms: depressing, gloomy,
miserable, cheerless,
heartbreaking, distressing,
poignant, moving
Antonym: cheerful
--------------------------------
3 senses of sad
Sense 1
sad (vs. glad) --
(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)
=> bittersweet -- (tinged with
sadness; "a movie with a
bittersweet ending")
=> depressing, depressive,
gloomy, saddening -- (causing
or suggestive of sorrow or
gloom; "a gloomy outlook";
"gloomy news")
=> doleful, mournful --
(filled with or evoking
sadness; "the child's doleful
expression"; "stared with
mournful eyes"; "mournful
news")
=> heavyhearted -- (depressed)
=> melancholy, melancholic --
(characterized by or causing
or expressing sadness;
"growing more melancholy every
hour"; "her melancholic
smile"; "we acquainted him
with the melancholy truth")
=> pensive, wistful --
(showing pensive sadness; "the
sensitive and wistful response
of a poet to the gentler
phases of beauty")
=> tragic, tragical -- (very
sad; especially involving
grief or death or destruction;
"a tragic face"; "a tragic
plight"; "a tragic accident")
=> tragicomic, tragicomical --
(manifesting both tragic and
comic aspects; "the tragicomic
disparity...between's man's
aspirations and his
accomplishments"- B.R.Redman)
Sense 2
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"- Christina
Rossetti)
=> sorrowful (vs. joyful) --
(experiencing or marked by or
expressing sorrow especially
that associated with
irreparable loss; "sorrowful
widows"; "a sorrowful tale of
death and despair"; "sorrowful
news"; "even in laughter the
heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs
14:13)
Sense 3
deplorable, distressing,
lamentable, pitiful, sad,
sorry -- (bad; unfortunate;
"my finances were in a
deplorable state"; "a
lamentable decision"; "her
clothes were in sad shape"; "a
sorry state of affairs")
=> bad (vs. good) -- (having
undesirable or negative
qualities; "a bad report
card"; "his sloppy appearance
made a bad impression"; "a bad
little boy"; "clothes in bad
shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad
luck"; "the news was very
bad"; "the reviews were bad";
"the pay is bad"; "it was a
bad light for reading"; "the
movie was a bad choice") |
