sad Copy link Outline I. Feeling sadness1. tristis, e (most gen. term)2. moestus, more correctly, maestus, (mournful; bearing the show of grief on one's countenance and exterior generally)II. Causing sadness; distressing1. tristis2. ăcerbus (keenly distressing)3. mĭsĕrandus, mĭsĕrābĭlisIII. Colloquially, in such phrr. as, a sad rogue • sad: I. Feeling sadness: 1. tristis, e (most gen. term): pass. Join: tristis, demissus, Cic. Mur. 21, 45: tristis et conturbatus, id. Verr. 4, 14, 32. Somewhat s., subtristis, Ter. Andr. 2, 6, 16: very s., pertristis (rare), Cic. poet. Div. 1, 8, 14. 2. moestus, more correctly, maestus, (mournful; bearing the show of grief on one's countenance and exterior generally): s. and troubled countenance, m. et conturbatus vultus, Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27: Virg. Join: moestus tristisque, Pl.: m. ac sollicitus, Hor. S. 1, 2, 3: v. mournful. To be sad, moerere, in tristitia ac moerore esse; jacēre (to be quite prostrate): v. to grieve; grief. II. Causing sadness; distressing: 1. tristis: a sad lot, t. sors, Cic. Mur. 20, 42: Liv. 2. ăcerbus (keenly distressing): a s. conflagration, a. incendium, Cic. Leg. 2, 24, 61. 3. mĭsĕrandus, mĭsĕrābĭlis: v. miserable, pitiable. III. Colloquially, in such phrr. as, a sad rogue: expr. by germānus, genuine, thorough (cf. Cic. Att. 4, 5, scio me asinum germanum fuisse), or with adj., plane (v. altogether): you s. dog! improbe! v. rascal, rogue.
SAD Copy link • SADSorrowful, tristis (of a sorrowful mien; opposed to laetus, hilaris): maestus, maerens (cast down, depressed in spirits): afflictus (greatly dejected): permaestus (very sad). Rather sad, subtristis (Terentianus); tristiculus (Cic.): to make anybody sad, maerore aliquem affligere; magnam maestitiam alicui inferre: to be sad, in maerore, in maestitia, in luctu esse: to be very sad, maerore affligi, confici. Causing sorrow, mournful, tristis: miser: miserabilis: gravis: acerbus: luctuosus. Serious, grave, Vid: Dark-colored, Vid.