Crossword clues for saddest
saddest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sad \Sad\ (s[a^]d), a. [Compar. Sadder (s[a^]d"d[~e]r); superl. Saddest.] [OE. sad sated, tired, satisfied, firm, steadfast, AS. s[ae]d satisfied, sated; akin to D. zat, OS. sad, G. satt, OHG. sat, Icel. sa[eth]r, saddr, Goth. sa[thorn]s, Lith. sotus, L. sat, satis, enough, satur sated, Gr. 'a`menai to satiate, 'a`dnh enough. Cf. Assets, Sate, Satiate, Satisfy, Satire.]
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Sated; satisfied; weary; tired. [Obs.]
Yet of that art they can not waxen sad, For unto them it is a bitter sweet.
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Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard. [Obs., except in a few phrases; as, sad bread.]
His hand, more sad than lump of lead.
--Spenser.Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad.
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Dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors. ``Sad-colored clothes.''
--Walton.Woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of all sad colors.
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Serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous. [Obs.] ``Ripe and sad courage.''
--Chaucer.Lady Catharine, a sad and religious woman.
--Bacon.Which treaty was wisely handled by sad and discrete counsel of both parties.
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Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.
First were we sad, fearing you would not come; Now sadder, that you come so unprovided.
--Shak.The angelic guards ascended, mute and sad.
--Milton. Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow; as, a sad accident; a sad misfortune.
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Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked. [Colloq.] ``Sad tipsy fellows, both of them.''
--I. Taylor.Note: Sad is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sad-colored, sad-eyed, sad-hearted, sad-looking, and the like.
Sad bread, heavy bread. [Scot. & Local, U.S.]
--Bartlett.Syn: Sorrowful; mournful; gloomy; dejected; depressed; cheerless; downcast; sedate; serious; grave; grievous; afflictive; calamitous.
Wiktionary
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WordNet
adj. 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]
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
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]
See sad
Usage examples of "saddest".
It was the saddest sight: the memory of it is hard to shake off - sick soldiers, not wounded ones.
Judge Campbell slowly walked up and down with his hands behind his back - the saddest face I ever saw.
He has a hard face, black-bearded and sallow, with the saddest black eyes.
Everybody just kind of pulled back for themselves, and it was absolutely the saddest day that none of us wanted to come to.
But this critical act is not always unattended with the saddest and most fatal casualties.
Sheffield had decided, centuries back, that the saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.
But if I was going to have to live in masquerade, the more carefully I used these cosmetic tricks, the more Dora's nose would be rubbed in the fact that I was different from her-different in the saddest way of all, a husband and a wife who ran on very different time rates.
Sheffield had decided, centuries back, that the saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.
But if I was going to have to live in masquerade, the more carefully I used these cosmetic tricks, the more Dora’s nose would be rubbed in the fact that I was different from her—different in the saddest way of all, a husband and a wife who ran on very different time rates.