sad

IPA: sˈæd

Alternative form of saad (“Arabic letter”) [The letter ص in the Arabic script.]
(medicine) Initialism of seasonal affective disorder. [(psychology) A form of depression associated with the lack of natural light during the winter months.]
Initialism of standard American diet.
(psychology) Initialism of social anxiety disorder. [(clinical psychology, psychiatry) The most common anxiety disorder, characterized by intense fear in one or more social situations, causing considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some parts of daily life. Symptoms of fear, distress, anxiety, avoidance of social situations, and impairment in social, occupational, or other areas of daily life, are persistent, typically lasting for a minimum of at least 6 months, and are not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance or another medical condition.]
(X-ray crystallography) Initialism of single-wavelength anomalous dispersion.
(US) Initialism of Special Activities Division.
(Indian politics) Initialism of Shiromani Akali Dal (Indian political party)

Examples of "sad" in Sentences

The sadness is unutterable.
The story is sad and sorrowful.
He is touched by the sad movie.
The speech was sad and poignant.
It would be sad to defrock this one.
The mood of the day is sad and humble.
It was sad to see the hypocrisy of the police.
Feeling joyous at the moment, the Grinch listens for a sad cry from the Whos.
Scenes that might read mawkish in other hands feel fresh, piquant and hilariously sad.
Pity originally means feeling for others, particularly feelings of sadness or sorrow, and was once used in a comparable sense to the more modern words 'sympathy' and 'empathy'.