Sad vs Upset - What's the difference?
sad | upset |
(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 .
(of a person) Angry, distressed or unhappy.
Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
(uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
(countable, sports) An unexpected victory of a competitor that was not favored.
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(automobile insurance) An overturn.
An stomach.
* 1958 May 12, advertisement, Life , volume 44, number 19, page 110 [http://books.google.com/books?id=vFMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA110&dq=pepto]:
(mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,?) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x?y, then y is in U.
To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
To tip or overturn (something).
* 1924 , W. D. Ross translator, , Book 1, Part 9,
To defeat unexpectedly.
To be upset or knocked over.
(obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
* R. of Brunne
To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
In obsolete terms the difference between sad and upset
is that sad is heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard while upset is to set up; to put upright.As an acronym SAD
is seasonal affective disorder.As a noun upset is
disturbance or disruption.As a verb upset is
to make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.sad
English
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
* *Anagrams
* * * 1000 English basic words ----upset
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was upset when she refused his friendship.
- My children often get upset with their classmates.
- His stomach was upset , so he didn't want to move.
Synonyms
* See'' angry, distressed ''and unhappy ** in a tizzyDerived terms
* upset priceNoun
- My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset .
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- "collision and upset ": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
- "Bob, let's cancel the babysitter. With this upset stomach, I can't go out tonight.
- "Try Pepto-Bismol. Hospital tests prove it relieves upsets . And it's great for indigestion or nausea, too!"
Synonyms
* (sense) disruption, disturbance * (unexpected victory of a competitor)Verb
- I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
- Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
- The fatty meat upset his stomach.
The Classical Library, Nashotah, Wisconsin, 2001.
- But this argument, which first Anaxagoras and later Eudoxus and certain others used, is very easily upset ; for it is not difficult to collect many insuperable objections to such a view.
- ''Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.
- The carriage upset when the horse bolted.
- with sail on mast upset