adj.
1 unhappy
VERBS
▪ appear , be , feel , look , seem , sound
▪ become , get , grow , turn
▪ make sb
▪
This music always makes me ~.
ADVERB
▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.
▪ all , desperately , immensely , particularly , profoundly , unbearably
▪
I called Dad, sounding all ~ and pathetic.
▪ a little , slightly , etc.
▪ strangely
PREPOSITION
▪ about
▪
She was still feeling very ~ about her father's death.
2 causing unhappiness
VERBS
▪ be , seem
▪ find sth
ADVERB
▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.
▪
an extremely ~ story
▪ deeply , incredibly , intensely , particularly , profoundly , terribly , unutterably
▪
a deeply ~ occasion
▪ a little , slightly , etc.
Sad is used with these nouns: ↑ affair , ↑ chapter , ↑ comment , ↑ day , ↑ demise , ↑ disappointment , ↑ end , ↑ ending , ↑ episode , ↑ event , ↑ excuse , ↑ expression , ↑ eye , ↑ face , ↑ fact , ↑ farewell , ↑ fate , ↑ indictment , ↑ irony , ↑ life , ↑ look , ↑ loser , ↑ loss , ↑ melody , ↑ memory , ↑ mood , ↑ news , ↑ note , ↑ occasion , ↑ part , ↑ plight , ↑ reality , ↑ reflection , ↑ reminder , ↑ saga , ↑ sight , ↑ smile , ↑ song , ↑ spectacle , ↑ story , ↑ tale , ↑ testament , ↑ thing , ↑ thought , ↑ time , ↑ truth , ↑ tune , ↑ voice