Sad vs Pity - What's the difference?
sad | pity |
(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 .
(uncountable) A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
* Bible, Proverbs xix. 17
* Shakespeare
*, Folio Society, 2006, p.5:
(countable) Something regrettable.
* Laurence Sterne
* Addison
(obsolete) piety
To feel pity for (someone or something).
* Bible, Psalms ciii. 13
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.11:
* Book of Common Prayer
Short form of what a pity.
In obsolete terms the difference between sad and pity
is that sad is heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard while pity is piety.As an adjective sad
is sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.As an acronym SAD
is seasonal affective disorder.As a noun pity is
a feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.As a verb pity is
to feel pity for (someone or something).As an interjection pity is
short form of what a pity.sad
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Adjective
(sadder)John Mortimer(1656?-1736)
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John Mortimer(1656?-1736)
Synonyms
* (feeling mentally uncomfortable) discomforted, distressed, uncomfortable, unhappy * (low in spirits) depressed, down in the dumps, glum, melancholy * poignant, touching * (causing sorrow) lamentable * (poor in quality) pitiful, sorry * See also * See alsoAntonyms
* happy * cheerful * gleeful, upbeat * decentDerived terms
* sadnessExternal links
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* * * 1000 English basic words ----pity
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Alternative forms
* pitty (obsolete)Noun
- He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.
- Hehas no more pity in him than a dog.
- The most usuall way to appease those minds we have offendedis, by submission to move them to commiseration and pitty .
- It's a pity you're feeling unwell because there's a party on tonight.
- It was a thousand pities .
- What pity is it / That we can die but once to serve our country!
- (Wyclif)
Synonyms
* (mercy) ruth * (something regrettable) shameVerb
(en-verb)- Like as a father pitieth' his children, so the Lord ' pitieth them that fear him.
- She lenger yet is like captiv'd to bee; / That even to thinke thereof it inly pitties mee.
- It pitieth them to see her in the dust.