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sad

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

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dire

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?rus (fearful, ominous).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?da???(?)/
  • Rhymes: -a??(?)

Adjective

dire (comparative direr or more dire, superlative direst or most dire)

  1. Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
  2. Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
  3. Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal
    Synonyms: horrible, terrible, lamentable
  4. (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
    His dire mistake allowed her to checkmate him with her next move.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:dire.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • voir dire

Anagrams

  • Dier, IDer, Reid, dier, drie, ired, ride

French

Etymology

From Middle French dire, from Old French dire, from Latin d?c?, from Proto-Italic *deik?, from Proto-Indo-European *déy?ti (to show, point out).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /di?/
  • (Quebec) IPA(key): /d?zi?/
  • Rhymes: -i?

Verb

dire

  1. to say, to tell
  2. (informal) (transitive with à) to be of interest to someone, to interest someone
  3. (informal) (transitive with à) to sound familiar

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

  • diction
  • indicible

Noun

dire m (plural dires)

  1. saying (that which is said)
  2. belief, opinion

Derived terms

  • aux dires de

Further reading

  • “dire” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • ride, ridé

Italian

Alternative forms

  • dicere (archaic)

Etymology

From a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?, from Proto-Italic *deik?, from Proto-Indo-European *déy?ti (to show, point out).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?di.re/
  • Hyphenation: dì?re

Verb

dìre (first-person singular present dìco, first-person singular past historic dìssi, past participle détto, first-person singular imperfect dicévo, second-person singular imperative di' or (with written accent) , auxiliary avere) (transitive)

  1. to say, tell
  2. to recite
  3. to mean
  4. to think
  5. to admit

Conjugation

Related terms

Anagrams

  • ride

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /?di?.re/, [?d?i???]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?di.re/, [?d?i???]

Adjective

d?re

  1. vocative masculine singular of d?rus

References

  • dire in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French dire, from a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?.

Verb

dire

  1. to say (express using language)

Descendants

  • French: dire

Occitan

Alternative forms

  • díder, díser

Etymology

From Old Occitan dir, dire, from a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?.

Verb

dire

  1. to say (express using language)
  2. to mean; to signify

Conjugation


Old French

Etymology

From a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?.

Verb

dire

  1. (chiefly intransitive) to say
  2. (transitive) to recount (a story)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

  • Middle French: dire
    • French: dire
  • Norman: dithe
  • Walloon: dire

References

  • “Appendix E: Irregular Verbs” in E. Einhorn (1974), Old French: A Concise Handbook, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, page 153

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

  • dir

Etymology

From a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?.

Verb

dire

  1. to say

Descendants

  • Occitan: dire

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French dire, from a contraction of Latin d?c?, d?cere.

Verb

dire

  1. to say

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