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saddest

/ˈsæ.dɪst/

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Australia/ˈsæː.dəst/

saddest is the superlative form of sad.

Meaning of sad

Adjective

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

  1. Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
    • She gets sad when he's away.
  2. Appearing sorrowful.
    • The puppy had a sad little face.
  3. Causing sorrow; lamentable.
    • It's a sad fact that most rapes go unreported.
  4. Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
    • That's the saddest-looking pickup truck I've ever seen.
    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...
  6. (obsolete) Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.

See all 14 meanings of sad

Questions about saddest

What is saddest the superlative form of?
Saddest is the superlative form of sad.
How do you pronounce saddest?
Saddest is pronounced /ˈsæ.dɪst/.

Words near saddest in the dictionary

  1. saddeningly
  2. saddenings
  3. saddens
  4. saddens up
  5. sadder
  6. saddest
  7. saddhu
  8. saddhus
  9. saddie
  10. saddies
  11. saddik

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