Hello vs Sad - What's the difference?
hello | sad |
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"!" or an equivalent greeting.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 29, author=Stephanie Rosenbloom, title=A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, work=New York Times
, passage=In many new buildings, though, neighbors are venturing beyond tight-lipped hellos at the mailbox.}}
To greet with "hello".
* 2013 , Ivan Doig, English Creek (page 139)
(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
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#*: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 #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
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*:Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad .
As nouns the difference between hello and sad
is that hello is "!" or an equivalent greeting while sad is grain; harvested seeds.As an interjection hello
is .As a verb hello
is to greet with "hello".hello
English
Alternative forms
* hallo * hilloa (obsolete) * hullo (UK)Interjection
(en interjection)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!'” at the top of my lungs.
Usage notes
* The greeting hello is among the most generic and neutral in use. It may be heard in nearly all social situations and in nearly all walks of life, and is unlikely to cause offense.Quotations
* (English Citations of "hello")Synonyms
* (greeting) ** g'day, hey, hi, ** hallo, hi, hiya, ey up ** hallo, hey, hi, howdy ** how's it going, hey, hi ** howzit ** (slang) wassup, what's up, yo, sup * See alsoAntonyms
* (greeting) bye, goodbyeDerived terms
*See also
* * (wikipedia "hello")Noun
(en noun)citation
Synonyms
* greetingVerb
(en verb)- I had to traipse around somewhat, helloing' people and being ' helloed , before I spotted my mother and my father, sharing shade and a spread blanket with Pete and Marie Reese and Toussaint Rennie near the back of the park.
sad
English
Adjective
(sadder)John Mortimer(1656?-1736)
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 .}}
John Mortimer(1656?-1736)