adj. (sadder, saddest)
1. unhappy; feeling sorrow or regret.
2 causing or suggesting sorrow (a sad story).
3 regrettable.
4 shameful, deplorable (is in a sad state).
5 (of a colour) dull, neutral-tinted.
6 (of dough etc.) heavy, having failed to rise.
Phrases and idioms:
sad-iron a solid flat-iron. sad sack US colloq. a very inept person.
Derivatives:
saddish adj. sadly adv. sadness n.
Etymology: OE s{aelig}d f. Gmc, rel. to L satis