different between difficult vs sad

English

Etymology

From Middle English difficult (ca. 1400), a back-formation from difficultee (whence modern difficulty), from Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultas, from difficul, older form of difficilis (“hard to do, difficult”), from dis- + facilis (“easy”); see difficile. Replaced native Middle English earveþ (“difficult, hard”), from Old English earfoþe (“difficult, laborious, full of hardship”), cognate to German Arbeit (“work”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?f?k?lt/

Adjective

difficult (comparative difficulter or more difficult, superlative difficultest or most difficult)

1. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.

   However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater.

   • There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, difficult world, alone.
2. (often of a person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.

3. (obsolete) Unable or unwilling.

Usage notes

Difficult implies that considerable mental effort or physical skill is required, or that obstacles are to be overcome which call for sagacity and skill in the doer; as, a difficult task. Thus, "hard" is not always synonymous with difficult. Examples include a difficult operation in surgery and a difficult passage by an author (that is, a passage which is hard to understand).

Synonyms

• burdensome, cumbersome, hard
• see also Thesaurus:difficult

Derived terms

• difficultly

Translations

Verb

difficult (third-person singular simple present difficults, present participle difficulting, simple past and past participle difficulted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.
   • August 9 1678, William Temple, letter to Joseph Williamson

     their Excellencies having desisted from their pretensions , which had difficulted the peace

Further reading

• difficult in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• difficult in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sad, from Old English sæd (“sated, full”), from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated, satisfied”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh?- (“to satiate, satisfy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sæd/
• Rhymes: -æd

Adjective

sad (comparative sadder or more sad, superlative saddest or most sad)

1. (heading) Emotionally negative.
   1. Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
   2. Appearing sorrowful.

   3. Causing sorrow; lamentable.
      • 1911, G. K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse

        The Great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, / For all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad.
   4. Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
   5. Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
      • 1679, Izaak Walton, The Life of Bishop Robert Sanderson

        sad-coloured clothes

      • Woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of many colours, especially all sad colours.

2. (obsolete) Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
3. (obsolete) Steadfast, valiant.
4. (obsolete) Dignified, serious, grave.
   • 1509, Sebastian Brant, Alexander Barclay (translator), The Ship of Fools,

     Therfore it nedeth that better prouysion.
     Were founde for youthe by sad and wyse counsayle
5. (obsolete) Naughty; troublesome; wicked.
   • 1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization

     Sad tipsy fellows, both of them.

6. (slang) Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.

7. (dialect) Soggy (to refer to pastries).
8. (obsolete) Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.
   • Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad.

Synonyms

• (feeling mentally uncomfortable): discomforted, distressed, uncomfortable, unhappy
• (low in spirits): depressed, down in the dumps, glum, melancholy
• (moving, full of feeling): poignant, touching
• (causing sorrow): lamentable
• (poor in quality): pitiful, sorry
• See also Thesaurus:sad
• See also Thesaurus:lamentable

Antonyms

• happy
• cheerful
• gleeful, upbeat
• decent

Derived terms

• sadness
• sadder
• saddest
• sadboi
• sad sack
• sadfishing
• unsad

Related terms

• sadden

Translations

Further reading

• sad in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sad in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Verb

sad (third-person singular simple present sads, present participle sadding, simple past and past participle sadded)

1. (transitive, archaic) To make melancholy; to sadden or grieve (someone).
   • 16??, John Webster, Appius and Virginia

     My father's wondrous pensive, and withal / With a suppress'd rage left his house displeas'd, / And so in post is hurried to the camp: / It sads me much; to expel which melancholy, / I have sent for company.

Etymology 2

Noun

sad (plural sads)

1. Alternative form of saad (“Arabic letter”)

Anagrams

• ADS, ADs, ASD, AdS, Ads, DA's, DAS, DAs, DSA, SDA, ads, das

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sad

Adverb

sad

1. (focus) also; too
2. (after a negative) either

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sad?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sat]

Noun

sad m

1. orchard

Declension

Derived terms

• sada? m
• sadový

Further reading

• sad in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• sad in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Verb

sad

1. past tense of sidde

Gothic

Romanization

sad

1. Romanization of ????????????

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) sa'd

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sadek.

Noun

sad

1. precipitation (hail, rain, snow)

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sad? (“plant, garden”). Cognate with Upper Sorbian sad, Polish sad (“orchard”), Czech sad (“orchard”), Russian ??? (sad, “orchard, garden”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (sad?, “plant, garden”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sat]

Noun

sad m

1. fruit (food)

Declension

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *seh?- (“to satiate, satisfy”).

Adjective

sad (comparative sadoro, superlative sadost)

1. full, sated, satiated
2. weary

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German sat

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sad?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sat/

Noun

sad m inan (diminutive sadek)

1. orchard

Declension

Related terms

• (noun) sadownik
• (adjective) sadowy

Related terms

• (verb) sadzi?

Further reading

• sad in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• sad in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scots

Etymology

From Old English sæd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?d/

Adjective

sad (comparative sadder, superlative saddest)

1. grave, serious
2. strange, remarkable
3. sad

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *s?da, *s?goda.

Alternative forms

• s?da

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sâd/

Adverb

s?d (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. now
2. currently
3. presently

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *saditi (“to plant”). Compare Serbo-Croatian saditi and Russian ??? (sad)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sâ?d/

Noun

s?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. plant nursery, plantation, orchard (specialized facility rather than a home garden)
2. a seeding or sapling from a plant nursery

Declension

References

• “sad” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• “sad” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sad?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sad/, [sat]

Noun

sad m (genitive singular sadu, nominative plural sady, genitive plural sadov, declension pattern of dub)

1. garden, orchard, plantation

Declension

Derived terms

• sadový
• sadík

References

• sad in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sá?t/

Noun

s?d m inan

1. fruit

Inflection

Further reading

• “sad”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Wakhi

Etymology

Compare Tajik ??? (sad).

Numeral

sad

1. hundred