sads
sads noun: sadness or melancholy. Also the plural of sad.
Noun (1)
the sads pl (plural only)
- Sadness or melancholy.
- Lauris also tells the story of her putting some of her M&Ms into a bottle and calling them "Happiness Pills," which she sweetly offered when Martha had an episode of the Sads."1996, David C. Treadway, Dead Reckoning: A Therapist Confronts His Own Grief, page 94
- When parents start to feel sad vibes coming through most of the time and think, 'I don't know you any more', there's likely to be more going on than an ordinary bout of the sads.2009, Leanne Rowe et al., I Just Want You To Be Happy, page 9
- Synonyms:
- saddies
Noun (2) capitalized: SADS
SADS (uncountable)
- Initialism of sudden arrhythmic death syndrome.
- Initialism of sudden adult death syndrome.
- Initialism of swine acute diarrhea syndrome.
Noun (3) capitalized: SADs
SADs
- plural of SAD
Also used as
sads is also the plural of sad.
sads is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of sad.
Synonyms of sads
Origin of sads
From sad + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum).
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Words formed from sads
- SADS-CoV
Questions about sads
- What does sads mean?
- Sads means sadness or melancholy.
- What part of speech is sads?
- Sads is a noun.
Words near sads in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sads (page history and authors); SADS (page history and authors); SADs (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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