[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

sad \sad\ sa^d, a. compar. sadder sa^d"d~er;
   superl. saddest. oe. sad sated, tired, satisfied, firm,
   steadfast, as. saed satisfied, sated; akin to d. zat, os.
   sad, g. satt, ohg. sat, icel. saethr, saddr, goth.
   sathorns, lith. sotus, l. sat, satis, enough, satur sated,
   gr. 'a`menai to satiate, 'a`dnh enough. cf. assets, sate,
   satiate, satisfy, satire.
   1. sated; satisfied; weary; tired. obs.
      1913 webster

            yet of that art they can not waxen sad,
            for unto them it is a bitter sweet.   --chaucer.
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   2. heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard. obs., except in a
      few phrases; as, sad bread.
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            his hand, more sad than lump of lead. --spenser.
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            chalky lands are naturally cold and sad. --mortimer.
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   3. dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors. "sad-colored
      clothes." --walton.
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            woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the
            foundation of all sad colors.         --mortimer.
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   4. serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous.
      obs. "ripe and sad courage." --chaucer.
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            lady catharine, a sad and religious woman. --bacon.
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            which treaty was wisely handled by sad and discrete
            counsel of both parties.              --ld. berners.
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   5. affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with
      affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.
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            first were we sad, fearing you would not come;
            now sadder, that you come so unprovided. --shak.
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            the angelic guards ascended, mute and sad. --milton.
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   6. afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow; as, a sad
      accident; a sad misfortune.
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   7. hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked. colloq. "sad
      tipsy fellows, both of them." --i. taylor.
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   note: sad is sometimes used in the formation of
         self-explaining compounds; as, sad-colored, sad-eyed,
         sad-hearted, sad-looking, and the like.
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   sad bread, heavy bread. scot.  local, u.s. --bartlett.
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   syn: sorrowful; mournful; gloomy; dejected; depressed;
        cheerless; downcast; sedate; serious; grave; grievous;
        afflictive; calamitous.
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see also:
sadder saddest assets sate satiate satisfy 
satire sad bread 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

sad \sad\, v. t.
   to make sorrowful; to sadden. obs.
   1913 webster

         how it sadded the minister's spirits    --h. peters.
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[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

sad \sad\, n.
   seasonal affective disorder. acron.
   pjc

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

sad
     adj 1: experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad
            because his dog had died"; "better by far that you
            should forget and smile / than that you should
            remember and be sad"- christina rossetti ant: glad
     2: of things that make you feel sad; "sad news"; "she doesn't
        like sad movies"; "it was a very sad story"; "when i am
        dead, my dearest, / sing no sad songs for me"- christina
        rossetti
     3: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state";
        "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape";
        "a sorry state of affairs" syn: deplorable, distressing,
         lamentable, pitiful, sorry
     also: saddest, sadder
see also:
glad deplorable distressing lamentable pitiful sorry 
saddest sadder 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

307 moby thesaurus words for "sad":
   quaker-colored, abominable, acier, affecting, afflictive,
   anguished, anxious, arrant, ashen, ashy, atrocious, awful,
   badly off, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, beneath one,
   bitter, blackish, blameworthy, bleak, blue, bored, brutal,
   canescent, cheap, cheerless, cheesy, cinereous, cinerous,
   comfortless, common, contemptible, creamy, crummy, dapple,
   dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dark-colored, darkish,
   darksome, debasing, degrading, dejected, delicate, demeaning,
   deplorable, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate,
   despicable, detestable, dingy, dire, discomforting, disgraceful,
   disgusted, disgusting, dismal, dismaying, dispirited, distressful,
   distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, donsie,
   doomful, dove-colored, dove-gray, down, downbeat, downcast,
   dreadful, drear, dreary, dull, dumpish, dumpy, dusk, dusky, dusty,
   eggshell, egregious, enormous, evil-starred, fatal, fetid, filthy,
   flagrant, flat, fortuneless, foul, fulsome, funereal, funest,
   gaudy, gimcracky, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, gloss, grave,
   gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green,
   gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grieving,
   grievous, grim, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, gross,
   gutter, hapless, hateful, heavy, heavyhearted, heinous, horrible,
   horrid, humiliating, humiliative, ill off, ill-starred,
   in adverse circumstances, inauspicious, infamous, infra dig,
   infra indignitatem, iridescent, iron-gray, joyless,
   laden with sorrow, lamentable, lead-gray, leaden, light, livid,
   loathsome, long-faced, lousy, luckless, mean, melancholic,
   melancholy, mellow, meretricious, mirthless, miserable, monstrous,
   morose, mother-of-pearl, mournful, mouse-colored, mouse-gray,
   mousy, moving, nacreous, nasty, nauseated, nauseous, nefarious,
   nigrescent, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive,
   ominous, opalescent, oppressed, opprobrious, out of luck,
   outrageous, painful, pale, paltry, pastel, pathetic, patinaed,
   pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, piteous, pitiable, pitiful,
   planet-struck, pleasureless, poignant, poor, prey to malaise,
   quiet, rank, regrettable, repelled, reprehensible, repulsive,
   revolted, rotten, rubbishy, rueful, sad of heart, sad-eyed,
   sad-faced, saddened, saddening, sadhearted, scandalous, schlock,
   scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, semigloss, shabby,
   shameful, sharp, shocking, shoddy, short of luck, sickened, silver,
   silver-gray, silvered, silvery, simple, slate-colored, slaty,
   smoke-gray, smoky, sober, soft, soft-colored, soft-hued, softened,
   somber, sombrous, sordid, sore, sorrowful, sorry, squalid,
   star-crossed, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, subdued, subtle,
   suffering angst, swart, swarthy, sweet, taupe, tear-jerking,
   tender, terrible, too bad, touching, trashy, triste, trumpery,
   two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny,
   unbecoming, unblessed, unclean, uncomfortable, underprivileged,
   uneasy, unfortunate, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unlucky,
   unprosperous, unprovidential, unquiet, unsatisfied,
   unworthy of one, valueless, vile, villainous, weighed upon,
   weighted down, woebegone, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched

[6] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

sad
     serial analog delay
     
     

[7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

sad
     
        systems analysis definition
     
     
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systems analysis definition 

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