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"
    
2. Of things that make you feel sad
   "it was a very sad story"; "When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me"; "sad news"; "she doesn't like sad movies"
    
3. Bad; unfortunate
   "her clothes were in sad shape";
   - deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sorry
    
4. [informal] (spoken slang) unfashionable and boring
   "His dad's dancing was so sad it made him cringe";
   - uncool [informal], unhip [informal]

1. A form of depression caused by the lack of natural light during the winter months
   "He experienced symptoms of SAD every winter";
   - seasonal affective disorder

Derived forms: sadder, saddest

See also: bad, bittersweet, doleful, heavyhearted, melancholic, melancholy, mournful, pensive, sorrowful, tragic, tragical [rare], tragicomic, tragicomical, wistful

Antonym: glad

Encyclopedia: Sad, Jhabua