Adjective

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Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}

Foreboding]] or great [[#Noun, disaster.

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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

Causing death or destruction.

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*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Philip J. Bushnell

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance , passage=Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}

(lb) Causing a sudden end to the running of a program.

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Adjective

(sadder)

(label) Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.

(label) Steadfast, valiant.

*, Book V:

*:And thus they strekyn forth into the stremys, many sadde hunderthes.

(label) Dignified, serious, grave.

*, II.xi:

*:Vprose Sir Guyon, in bright armour clad, / And to his purposd iourney him prepar'd: / With him the Palmer eke in habit sad , / Him selfe addrest to that aduenture hard

*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

*:ripe and sad courage

* (1467-1533)

*:which treaty was wisely handled by sad and discrete counsel of both parties

(label) Naughty; troublesome; wicked.

*(Isaac Taylor) (1787–1865)

*:Sad tipsy fellows, both of them.

(label) Emotionally negative.

#Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.

#*1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , II.5:

#*:this is either used crude, and called Sulphur Vive, and is of a sadder colour; or after depuration, such as we have in magdeleons of rolls, of a lighter yellow.

#*(Izaak Walton) (c.1594-1683)

#*:sad -coloured clothes

#* John Mortimer (1656?-1736)

#*:Woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of all sad colours.

#Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.

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#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

#*:First were we sad , fearing you would not come; / Now sadder, that you come so unprovided.

#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

#*:The angelic guards ascended, mute and sad .

#Appearing sorrowful.

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#Causing sorrow; lamentable.

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#*:The Great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, / For all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad .

#*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad .}}

#Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.

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#*1819 , (Lord Byron), , II.127:

#*:Heaven knows what cash he got, or blood he spilt, / A sad old fellow was he, if you please.

(label) Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.

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(label) Soggy (to refer to pastries).

(label) Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.

:sad bread

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:his hand, more sad than lump of lead

* John Mortimer (1656?-1736)

*:Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad .