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Meaning of sad

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}, {sad}, {sorry}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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