sad: meaning and words from its letters
3 letters · 4 letter points · starts with S · ends with D
Meaning of sad
adj
Emotionally negative. Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
Example: She gets sad when he's away.
Emotionally negative. Appearing sorrowful.
Example: The puppy had a sad little face.
Emotionally negative. Causing sorrow; lamentable.
Example: It's a sad fact that most rapes go unreported.
Emotionally negative. Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
Example: That's the saddest-looking pickup truck I've ever seen.
Listed forms: sadder, saddest.
Source: Wiktionary — sad.
verb
- archaic, transitive
To make melancholy; to sadden or grieve (someone).
Listed forms: sads, sadding, sadded.
Source: Wiktionary — sad.
intj
- Internet, humorous, sometimes
Expressing contempt, ridicule or disgust; bah!
Source: Wiktionary — sad.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
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adjective
bad; unfortunate
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is sad in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of sad
S(1) + A(1) + D(2) = 4 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of sad
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from sad
2 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in sad. Showing up to 24, longest first.