sadder

Adjective

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

1. Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
   • She gets sad when he's away.

   Synonyms:

   depressed, down in the dumps, glum, melancholy, discomforted, distressed, uncomfortable, unhappy, poignant, touching

   Antonyms:

   cheerful, gleeful, happy, upbeat, berserk, blissed out, blithe, buoyant, chirpy, blithesome

2. Appearing sorrowful.
   • The puppy had a sad little face.
3. Causing sorrow; lamentable.
   • It's a sad fact that most rapes go unreported.

   Synonyms:

   deplorable, saddening, atrabiliary, atrabilious, depressing, distressing, grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending, miserable

4. Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
   • That's the saddest-looking pickup truck I've ever seen.

   Synonyms:

   pitiful, sorry, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap

   Antonyms:

   decent

5. Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
   • […]this is either uſed crude, and called ſulphur vive, and is of a ſadder colour; or after depuration, ſuch as we have in magdeleons or rols of a lighter yellow.1650, Thomas Browne, “Compendiously of Sundry Other Common Tenents, Concerning Minerall and Terreous Bodies, Which Examined, Prove Either False or Dubious”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd...

   Synonyms:

   bland, colourless, dim, dingy, dull, faint, lackluster, leaden, muddy, sober

6. (obsolete) Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.

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