Reverse Dictionary: SAD

ADJECTIVES
► ACHY-BREAKY aching, hurt; also, sad, heart-rending → 1992 colloq.
► ALAN LADD sad → 1990s Brit. rhyming sl.
► ANNOYOUS adj. troubled, grieved, sad → 1450 obs.
► AWMUS pitiable, sad, wretched → 1802 Sc.
► BAISE ► BAISS sad, sorrowful → 1825 Sc. obs.
► BEAT sad; disillusioned; world-weary → 1947 Amer. sl.
► BLACK sad, melancholy; unlucky, malignant, wicked →  1818 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BLUE depressed, low-spirited, sad, sorrowful, dismayed, downcast → a1450
► BOOT-FACED grim-faced, sad-faced; with an expressionless face → 1942 colloq.
► BUMMED depressed, upset, sad; annoyed, angry → 1970 colloq., orig. & chiefly US
► DARK gloomy, cheerless, dismal, sad → 1597
► DARKSOME characterized by gloom, sadness, or cheerlessness; melancholy, dismal → 1649
► DAUNSY downcast, sad → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DERE grievous, sad → 1686 Eng. dial. obs.
► DISCONSOLATORY disheartening, saddening →  1823 Sc.
► DISHEARTSOME disheartening, saddening →  1825 Sc.
► DOWF sad, melancholy, out of spirits; also, tedious → 1721 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► DROOPY depressed; dejected; sad; gloomy; drooping → a1225
► DUMB-COMPLAINING showing sadness or grief in the face, but not expressing it in words → 1788
► DUMPISH sad, melancholy; dejected, in the dumps → 1560
► EARNFUL causing anxiety or yearning; anxious; full of longing desire; sorrowful, lamentable, melancholy, sad → c1500 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► EERIE dismal, sad, melancholy, gloomy, dull, mournful → 1773 Sc.
► EERIESOME dismal, dull, sad, melancholy → 1869 Sc.
► ERNEFUL ► ERNFUL sad, lamentable, pitiable; sorrowful, melancholy → 1679 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► FRIDAY-FACED sad-looking, melancholy, gloomy, sour-featured, miserable, gloomy → c1600 obs.
► FUNEBRIOUS pert. to funerals; hence, gloomy, sad, melancholy, mournful → 1630 obs.
► GREMEFUL sad; sorrowful → 1300 obs.
► HEARTFUL sorrowful, sad-hearted → 1877 Sc.  
► HEAVISOME of heavy mood, doleful, sad, dejected; dull, gloomy, dark → 1435 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► HEAVY-HEARTED grieved, sad, melancholy → c1400
► HUMPY out of humour; melancholy, sad → 1889
► LUGUBRE expressing or causing mourning; mournful, sorrowful, sad, dismal, pitiable → 1727 obs.
► LUGUBRIOUS expressing or causing mourning; mournful, sorrowful, sad, dismal, pitiable → 1601
► LUGUBROUS expressing or causing mourning; doleful, mournful, sorrowful, sad, dismal, pitiable → 1632 obs.
► MESTFUL mournful; sad; melancholy; dismal; gloomy → 1577 obs.
► MESTIFICAL making sad or sorrowful → 1656 obs.
► MESTIVE sad, sorrowful, gloomy, dismal, mournful, melancholy → 1578 obs.
► MISHAPPY unhappy, miserable, sad, wretched → c1386 obs.
► NEW-SAD recently made sad → 1788
► OFF sad, sorrowful, regretful → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► OORIE ► ORIE ► OWRIE sad, melancholy, dismal, depressing → 1788 Sc.
► OORLICK of things: sad and depressing, eerie → 1922 Sc.
► RUTHFUL sad, dejected, doleful → 1513 obs. 
► SADDED saddened, made sorrowful → 1680 obs.
► SAFFLE dull, sad, melancholy → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SAIR serious, considerable, sad, thoroughgoing → 1776 Sc.
► SAIRIE ► SAIRY sad, doleful, sorrowful → 1838 Sc. obs.
► SIGHFUL sorrowful, sad → 1606
► SITHEFUL sighful, sad → 1610 obs.
► SORELY painful, sorrowful; sad → 888 obs.
► SOROUS sorrowful, sad → 1300 obs.
► SORRILY sorrowful, sad → 1200 obs.
► SORRY-MOOD sorrowful, sad → 1023 obs.
► SUBTRIST somewhat sad → 1820
► SWEER oppressed in mind, grieved, sad → 1000 Sc. & N. Eng. dial., obs.
► THOUGHT-SICK sick from thinking; sick with anxiety; uneasy with sad reflections; sad, sorrowful, melancholy → 1598 obs.
► TRISTITIOUS full of sadness, sorrowful → 1694 obs.
► UGLY depressed, sad → 1836 Eng. dial.
► UNBLITHE unhappy; sad, sorrowful; not delighted → c897 obs.
► UNHEARTSOME cheerless, melancholy, sad → 1660 Sc.
► UNHEARTY disheartened; cheerless; wretched, sad → 1845 Sc.
► VEXSOME sorrowful, full of vexation; grievous, sad → 1852 Sc.
► VULTUOSOUS of a grave and solemn countenance; of a heavy and sad look → 1656 obs.
► WAN sad, dismal; also, awful, deadly, cruel, wicked → c1400 poetic usage, obs.
► WANCHEERIE cheerless, sad → 1831 Sc. obs.

ADVERBS
► DOWLY sadly, dolefully, lamentably →  c1540 N. Eng. dial. obs.
► DULLY gloomily, sadly → 1600 obs.
► HEAVISOMELY sadly → 1382 obs.
► SADLIES ► SODLIES sadly; to a great degree → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SADLINS sadly; greatly → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

INTERJECTIONS & PHRASES
► A-DEARY ME! exclamation of sadness or surprise → 1868 Eng. dial.
► FACE AS LONG AS A WET SUNDAY, A used for describing an expression of depression or sadness → 1984 Can. sl.

NOUNS
► BALEFULNESS hurtfulness; distress, sadness → 1592
► EGRIMONY great sorrow, grief, sadness → 1626 obs.
► HEAVINESS sadness, grief → c1275 obs.
► HEAVITY heaviness of heart; sorrow, sadness → c1400 obs.
► MOP a sad face or expression
► PENSIENESS sadness, melancholy → 1450 Sc. obs.
► SKELETON AT THE FEAST, A a reminder of saddening or serious things in the midst of enjoyment; a source of gloom or depression → 1857
► SORE CUP OF TEA something sad, painful, or disgusting → 1889 Eng. dial.
► TEAR-JERKER a story, film, song, etc. calculated to evoke sadness or sympathy → 1921 sl., orig. US
► TEAR SQUEEZER something sad; a sad story → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)
► WANCHEER grief, sadness → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► AGELASTIC one who never laughs; one who is perpetually sad → 1626 obs.
► GLOOMY GUS a very unhappy, sad, dismal, or gloomy person; a pessimist → 1904 US sl.
► PRUNEFACE a homely or sad-looking person → 1974 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SAD SACK a sad person; a listless or depressed person → 1943 Amer. sl. 
► WEARY WILLIE a person who is perpetually tired, sad and pessimistic → 1947 US sl.

NOUNS – PERSON – OTHER
► GHOST AT THE FEAST, A someone who brings gloom or sadness to an otherwise pleasant or celebratory occasion → 1995

VERBS
► ATTRIST to make sad, to sadden → 1680 obs.
► CONTRISTATE to make sad or sorrowful; to sadden, grieve → 1616 obs.
► DRAG ONE’S ASS AROUND to go around looking sad and depressed → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► DUMP to be in the dumps; to be sad or downcast in spirit → 1582 obs.
► EAT ONE UP to sadden one greatly → 1995 US sl. (Bk.)
► FUNERALIZE to render sad or melancholy → 1654 obs.
► GLUMSH to show sulkiness of temper, to pout; to look sad → 1806 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HAVE ONE’S ASS IN A SLING to be or to appear to be sad, rejected, tired, or defeated → 1975 US sl. (Bk.)
► HAVE THE CAFARD to be fearful and sad →  World War I Amer. sl.
► MOP to make a grimace or sad expression
► MOP AND MOW to make a grimace or sad expression
► SAD to sadden → 1775 Sc. obs.
► SWERK to be or become dark; to become gloomy, troubled, or sad → 1000 obs.
► TRISTITIATE to make sad or sorrowful, to sadden → 1628 obs.