Usually means: Feeling sorrow; opposite of happy.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word sad:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. SAD, sad: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. SAD, sad: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. SAD, sad: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sad: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sad: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sa'd, Sad, Sad, Sad, sad: Wordnik
  7. SAD, sad: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. SAD, sad: Wiktionary
  9. sad: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sad: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sad: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. SAD: Dictionary.com
  13. sad: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sad: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. S.A.D, SAD (disambiguation), SAD, SAD, Sa'd (deity), Sad (Elton John and Pnau song), Sad (Maroon 5 song), Sad (disambiguation), Sad (sura), Sad, Sad: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sad: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sad: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sad: Rhymezone
  19. sad: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sad: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SAD, sad: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. sad: Free Dictionary
  23. sad: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sad: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. SAD: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SAD: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
  2. SAD (disambiguation), sad: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SAD: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. SAD: CCI Computer
  3. SAD (disambiguation), SAD: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SAD: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. SAD: Natural Health glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Sleep Terms (No longer online)
  6. SAD (disambiguation), SAD: Medical dictionary
  7. SAD: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SAD: Acronym Finder
  3. SAD: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. sad: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sad: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. SAD: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. sad, sad, sad: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sad: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Sad: 1960's Slang
  4. S.A.D, S.A.D, S.A.D (seasonal affectiveness disorder), SAD, The SAD: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sadder as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (heading) Emotionally negative.
adjective:  Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
adjective:  Appearing sorrowful.
adjective:  Causing sorrow; lamentable.
adjective:  Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
adjective:  Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
adjective:  (obsolete) Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
adjective:  (obsolete) Steadfast, valiant.
adjective:  (obsolete) Dignified, serious, grave.
adjective:  (obsolete) Naughty; troublesome; wicked.
adjective:  (slang) Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
adjective:  (dialect) Soggy (to refer to pastries).
adjective:  (obsolete) Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To make melancholy; to sadden or grieve (someone).
noun:  Alternative form of saad (“Arabic letter”) [The letter ص in the Arabic script.]
noun:  (medicine) Initialism of seasonal affective disorder. [(psychology) A form of depression associated with the lack of natural light during the winter months.]
noun:  Initialism of standard American diet.
noun:  (psychology) Initialism of social anxiety disorder. [(clinical psychology, psychiatry) The most common anxiety disorder, characterized by intense fear in one or more social situations, causing considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some parts of daily life.]
noun:  (X-ray crystallography) Initialism of single-wavelength anomalous dispersion.
noun:  (US) Initialism of Special Activities Division.
noun:  (Indian politics) Initialism of Shiromani Akali Dal (Indian political party)

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