Synonyms for sad

Some common synonyms of sad are: sad [a.] 1. Close, firm, cohesive. 2. Serious, sedate, grave, staid, sober, sombre, saturnine. 3. Sorrowful, melancholy, mournful, downcast, afflicted, heavy, disconsolate, despondent, depressed, dejected, cheerless. 4. Gloomy, dismal, doleful, mournful, lugubrious, woe-begone, dull. 5. Grievous, afflictive calamitous, disastrous, dire, deplorable. 6. Bad, naughty, vexatious, wicked, troublesome, mischievous. 7. Dark, sombre.