Tra từ sad - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

sad S2 W3 /sæd/ adjective (comparative sadder, superlative saddest)
[Word Family: noun: sadness, saddo; adjective: sad, saddening; verb: sadden; adverb: sadly]
[Language : Old English; Origin : sæd 'having had enough']
1. FEELING UNHAPPY not happy, especially because something unpleasant has happened OPP happy
feel/look/sound sad
　 ▪ Dad looked sad and worried as he read the letter.
be sad to hear/see/read etc something
　 ▪ I was very sad to hear that he had died.
sad that
　 ▪ Lilly felt sad that Christmas was over.
sad about
　 ▪ I was sad about the friends I was leaving behind.
sad smile/face/expression etc
　 ▪ There was such a sad look in her eyes.

2. MAKING YOU UNHAPPY a sad event, situation etc makes you feel unhappy:
　 ▪ Sorry to hear the sad news.
　 ▪ It was a sad case. The boy ended up in prison.
sad story/song/film etc
　 ▪ a story with a sad ending
it is sad to see/hear etc something
　 ▪ It was sad to see them arguing.
sad time/day/moment etc
　 ▪ This is a sad day for us all.

3. NOT SATISFACTORY very bad or unacceptable:
　 ▪ There aren’t enough teachers, which is a sad state of affairs (=bad situation).
it’s sad that/when/if ...
　 ▪ It’s sad if people are too afraid to go out alone at night.
the sad fact is (that) spoken:
　 ▪ The sad fact is that prejudice still exists.
　 ▪ Sad to say (=unfortunately), the country is heading towards civil war.

4. LONELY a sad person has a dull, unhappy, or lonely life:
　 ▪ She’s a sad character – without any friends at all.

5. BORING informal boring or not deserving any respect:
　 ▪ Stay in on Saturday night? What a sad idea!

6. sadder and/but wiser
having learned something from an unpleasant experience:
　 ▪ He came out of the relationship sadder but wiser.
⇨ sadness
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COLLOCATIONS (for Meaning 2)
nouns
▪a sad story/song/film
　 ▪ He had listened patiently to his client’s sad story about her awful life.
▪sad news
　 ▪ It was with great shock that we heard the sad news that he had died.
▪a sad fact
　 ▪ It’s a sad fact that a significant amount of crime is committed by young people.
▪the sad truth
　 ▪ The sad truth is that the new law will not deter criminals.
▪a sad day/time
　 ▪ I’m really disappointed that this happened. It’s a sad day for football.
▪a sad case
　 ▪ Take the sad case of Gary Marsh, who was badly injured during a match.
▪a sad ending
　 ▪ The film has a sad ending.
▪the sad thing (=the sad part of a situation)
　 ▪ The sad thing is that there’s little we can do about the situation now.
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THESAURUS
▪sad not happy :
　 ▪ She felt sad as she waved goodbye.
　 ▪ a sad and lonely figure
　 ▪ a sad face
　 ▪ a sad film
▪unhappy sad, especially for a long time – used about people and periods of time :
　 ▪ I was unhappy at school.
　 ▪ an unhappy childhood
　 ▪ He’s obviously a deeply unhappy person.
▪homesick [NOT BEFORE NOUN]sad because you are away from your home, family, and friends :
　 ▪ She sometimes felt homesick when she first arrived in Japan.
▪down [NOT BEFORE NOUN] informal feeling sad for a few hours or days, often for no reason :
　 ▪ Whenever I’m feeling down, I go out and buy myself some new clothes.
　 ▪ She’s been kind of down since that argument with Jack.
▪gloomy looking or sounding sad and without hope – used about people, places, and weather :
　 ▪ Why are you all looking so gloomy?
　 ▪ the gloomy immigration office
　 ▪ a gloomy afternoon in February
▪dejected/downcast looking sad and disappointed because something you hoped for did not happen :
　 ▪ ‘I didn’t pass,’ he said, looking dejected.
　 ▪ a downcast expression
　 ▪ He was understandably downcast after the team’s loss.
▪mournful especially literary looking or sounding sad :
　 ▪ the dog’s big mournful eyes
　 ▪ the mournful sound of the church bell
　 ▪ a mournful expression
▪glum looking sad and disappointed :
　 ▪ Don’t look so glum! Maybe you’ll win next time.
　 ▪ They sat in glum silence.
▪wistful especially literary looking a little sad and thoughtful, because you wish that the situation was different :
　 ▪ She looked at him with a wistful smile.
very sad
▪miserable very sad, especially because you are lonely, cold, ill, or upset – used about people and periods of time :
　 ▪ I felt miserable and blamed myself for what had happened.
　 ▪ Her life was miserable.
　 ▪ I had a miserable time at college.
▪depressed very sad and without hope for a long time, because things are wrong in your life or because of a medical condition :
　 ▪ After his wife left him, he became depressed and refused to talk to anyone.
▪heartbroken extremely sad because of something that has happened to someone or something that you care about very much :
　 ▪ She was heartbroken when her dog died.
▪distressed/distraught very upset because of something bad that has happened, so that you cannot think clearly :
　 ▪ She was very distressed when he left her.
　 ▪ The boy’s hospital bed was surrounded by distraught relatives.
▪devastated [NOT BEFORE NOUN]extremely sad and shocked, because something very bad has happened :
　 ▪ The whole town was devastated by the tragedy.
COLLOCATIONS CHECK
▪sad person/expression/story/song/film
▪unhappy person/expression/childhood/marriage
▪gloomy person/expression/place/weather
▪dejected/downcast person/expression
▪mournful sound/eyes/expression

adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sad reflection
▪ This situation is a sad reflection on society.
a sad/solemn occasion
▪ He did not want his funeral to be a sad and solemn occasion, but a celebration of his life.
a sad/tragic fate
▪ The play is about the tragic fate of two lovers.
look tired/happy/sad etc
▪ You look tired. You should go to bed.
sad loss (=the death of someone you love)
▪ I’m sorry to hear of your family’s sad loss.
sad
▪ Her beautiful eyes suddenly looked sad.
sad
▪ He gazed at her with sad eyes as she slowly walked away.
sad/serious
▪ Maggie looked at him with a sad face.
the sad/painful truth (=something that is true but that you regret)
▪ She still misses him, and that’s the sad truth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
how
▪ The jacaranda pods were too stiff to act as castanets. How sad it was to leave!
▪ You are such a writer, wanting to capture how sad you truly felt.
▪ Mary Miller Scary price of stardom HOW sad that one of the perils of stardom is the kind of fans you attract.
▪ How lucky he was and how sad he must be.
▪ The clock ticks. How sad life is!
▪ Fiction is pure joy how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.
▪ The same thing that everybody thought. How sad.
▪ She described how sad and anxious she had been feeling in the past month.
rather
▪ She was lost in her own thoughts and was feeling rather sad.
▪ Although it's been quite humorous inpart I find it also rather sad.
▪ Lady Diana counting how many days of freedom are left to her. Rather sad.
▪ It has always seemed to me rather sad that almost any move from beat duty is regarded as a promotion.
▪ Charles felt detached and rather sad.
▪ Many plastic slopes now feature bumps in one form or another, and often it's a rather sad effort.
▪ One could argue that the poisonous atmosphere in rugby is a rather sad reflection of the vitriolic exchanges between politicians.
really
▪ When he's had a bad day he looks really sad.
▪ I am really sad that nobody wants to do it like I have done it for them.
▪ Everyone was really sad to be leaving.
so
▪ Then again, maybe not so sad.
▪ When I really looked, he seemed so sad and out of it.
▪ We care not a pin, though they are ne'er so sad.
▪ Twice a week, every week, she went and always came back so sad, so sad.
▪ It seemed so sad I could have cried.
▪ She played and sang so plaintively that I almost wept, the song was so sad.
▪ It was all so sad, so depressing, so futile.
very
▪ I very sad, adopt Krishna.
▪ This is very sad nonsense, Michael.
▪ Most of the news is very sad.
▪ The experience is very sad for them personally, as well as enraging.
▪ I find it very sad that the traditional weekend by the sea cam now be considered a health risk.
▪ David Copperfield about a poor boy who is mistreated by people that was very sad.
▪ Mr Parry said that it was a very sad case.
▪ Boston is a very sad place.
NOUN
case
▪ Really sad case, that, because he'd been a fine man.
▪ Instantly she brought the sad case of Odysseus before the others.
▪ Mr Parry said that it was a very sad case.
▪ Even the sad case of the fairest of the nymphs, Echo, did not move him.
▪ There are so many sad cases needing our help, and Miss Withington and I do all we can.
commentary
▪ It is a sad commentary to note such parochial schools within our people.
▪ The experience of some Sunday morning services in competition with golf is a sad commentary on the bending of principle to person.
day
▪ Male speaker Although we have moved production across the road, it's still a sad day for a lot of people.
▪ But one sad day she happened not to be with him and he tracked down a mighty boar.
▪ It turned out to be an irritating, sad day.
▪ It was a sad day for me.
▪ Female speaker It's a sad day as the sisters were planning to sell.
▪ Some have said this is a sad day.
▪ He says it's been a sad day, but its also a homecoming.
▪ If they get possession of the Mississippi River, it will be a sad day for the Confederacy.
face
▪ His eyes appraised her face, a lovely face, a sad face - because of him.
▪ The cat had a sad face.
▪ Dress your child up in a clown outfit and paint on a sad face.
▪ The sad faces look out longingly at the small figures silhouetted on the rooftops.
▪ A black-haired woman with a long, sad face was inside.
fact
▪ The sad fact is that on an average classroom teacher's salary it is impossible to bring up a family in London.
▪ The sad fact is that we are amazingly persistent at missing the point.
▪ Little evidence exists to indicate that tests help teachers; however this sad fact may not surprise many people.
▪ And the sad fact is that the military has not gained anything by making adultery a crime.
▪ The sad fact is, however, that in Britain the old have the worst housing of any group.
▪ One could not and I would not attempt to persuade our management of this sad fact.
▪ The sad fact is that many organisations would be unable to recognise a customer even if he or she fell in front of them.
▪ It is a sad fact that most professionals do what interests them, rather than what most needs doing.
loss
▪ For Doctor Who this was a sad loss.
▪ On the way back to the rendezvous the next morning, however, they suffered a sad loss.
▪ Waterpolo suffered another sad loss last week with the sudden death of Donegall's Eddie Neill.
news
▪ Tony attended to all the arrangements and Maureen wrote to Terry with the sad news.
▪ Sitting on a red vinyl padded stool at the breakfast bar, she told us the sad news.
▪ Well, she brought me sad news.
▪ Say you have some sad news.
▪ Halema, however, had no sad news to share.
▪ And sad news from the Manor.
reflection
▪ One could argue that the poisonous atmosphere in rugby is a rather sad reflection of the vitriolic exchanges between politicians.
▪ Meanwhile a sad reflection dawns upon the well-intentioned occupant of the ministerial chair.
▪ A sad reflection on human nature, and the times we live in, but true.
▪ When he leaves her for the Gipsy and she dances. alone, it becomes a sad reflection of what has been.
▪ It is a sad reflection on life that it takes danger and suffering to bring people closer together.
▪ It is a sad reflection on the Opposition.
▪ It is a sad reflection on his party that for so long he did not enjoy a smell of office.
smile
▪ Is Lily's sad smile as familiar as the sight of the other couples?
▪ He looked up with a sad smile.
▪ Do the others have anything to do with Lily's sad smile?
▪ Paul sat beside her, utterly still, a small, sad smile on his face.
▪ He was smiling, but it was a sad smile.
song
▪ He shot it because it played a sad song.
state
▪ This sad state of affairs does not have to continue.
▪ A sad state of affairs, but it is so.
▪ It's a sad state of affairs.
▪ I do not need to detain the House with a contemporary history of that sad state.
▪ The unfinished building stood for several years as a mute witness to their sad state.
story
▪ A moor hen's nest floating away on a swollen tyke told a sad story.
▪ That is the sad story Jim Carlton tells in his forthcoming book about Apple Computer.
▪ As he left, Lord Henry thought about this sad story.
▪ The result of this sad story is that we have 4, 000 ancient Samaritan manuscripts all over the world.
▪ It is one long sad story of complaining and discontent.
▪ Peter Cameron tells sad stories with tender grace and understatement, as if his work were composed of panels of watercolor.
▪ That's the sad story of my life.
▪ He spoke for hours and hours, telling me the great and sad story of the Tom Morrises.
tale
▪ It depicts the sad tale of a lavatory attendant, Jim, who reads newspapers to seek a new career.
▪ She confessed to cleaning his house, and also told her own sad tale.
▪ It was no longer believed to be a sad tale of the power of fortune to undermine love.
▪ A sad tale about a man who died at the age of 103 because no one would give him any money.
thing
▪ The sad thing is that the G8 could do much more.
▪ The sad thing about it was that most of us felt more at home out in the field than in base camp.
▪ The sad thing is that there's probably little we can do about it now.
▪ The sad thing is the ride ended.
▪ One of the sad things about history is that nations keep making the same mistakes.
▪ The sad thing is that parents rarely complain when this is the case.
▪ The sad thing about the Yobots article is that, since its publication, Quasp has been overtaken by trendy wimps.
▪ But the sad thing is that there was absolutely no return.
time
▪ We live in sad times now; the Puritans cut King Charles's head off last January.
▪ We missed our families and it was a sad time.
▪ They talked about the happy and sad times.
▪ Everybody in Avonlea was very kind to them, but it was a sad time.
▪ Stephen came home for Christmas, but it was a quiet, sad time for the family.
▪ This was a sad time for me.
▪ For the girl herself it was a sad time.
truth
▪ But the sad truth is that words are all that Labour has while the Tories rule.
▪ The dates reflect a sad truth.
▪ The sad truth is that the average collector is unlikely to recover more than the most fragmentary remains of dinosaurs.
▪ The sad truth is that this source of power is already nearly tapped out.
▪ The sad truth is to tackle these subjects you have to be more than just willing, you have to be shite-hot.
▪ The sad truth is that conservatives flagrantly and lasciviously Frenchkissed those elements.
▪ The sad truth is that doctors who spend careers in research may forgo huge incomes from private practice.
▪ The sad truth is that Rosewood was not an isolated incident.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a sad/tragic/devastating etc commentary on sth
▪ The experience of some Sunday morning services in competition with golf is a sad commentary on the bending of principle to person.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Don't look so sad! It won't be long until the next holidays.
▪ Fairuz sang a sad song that made us all feel homesick.
▪ I don't like movies with sad endings.
▪ I felt so sad when I heard about Ronald's death.
▪ I was glad to be going home, but sad to leave all my friends.
▪ It's natural to feel sad about it when your children finally leave home.
▪ It's pretty sad that in an Italian restaurant they can't cook pasta well.
▪ It's very sad that she died before her children grew up.
▪ My brother told us the sad news.
▪ She felt sad as she waved goodbye.
▪ The day her son left home was one of the saddest days of her life.
▪ There was such a sad look in her eyes.
▪ We were very sad to hear about Mrs Humphrey's death.
▪ You stayed home waiting for him to call? You are so sad.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A sad state of affairs, but it is so.
▪ But an omelette empty of content was a sad object.
▪ But one sad day she happened not to be with him and he tracked down a mighty boar.
▪ His son Michel is apparently taking over the family trade, and has perfected the sad Gallic intonations of his dad.
▪ It is sad to go into their offices.
▪ This sad state of affairs does not have to continue.
▪ Those moments became sad bygones as drivers solemnly filed into Calvary Church, North Carolina's largest.
▪ We missed our families and it was a sad time.