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Sad to say

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Sad /sæd/ adj ( -dder , -ddest ) ၁။ ဝမ္းနည္းေသာ။ a sad look /event/ story ❍ John is sad because his dog has died. ❍ I'm sad you're leaving. ❍ It was a sad day for us all when the village school closed down. ❍ Why is she looking so sad? ❍ It is sad that he did not live to see his book published. ❍ The divorce left him sadder but wiser. ၂။ ဝမ္းနည္းဖြယ္ရာ။ စိတ္မေကာင္းစရာ။ a sad state of affairs ❍ a sad case of cruelty ❍ It's a sad fact that many of those who die in road accidents are under 25. ၃။ ဝမ္းနည္းဖြယ္ရာ။ စိတ္မေကာင္းစရာ။ a sad fate ❍ This once beautiful ship is in a sad condition now. ❏ sadden /'sædn/ v (esp passive) ဝမ္းနည္းေစသည္။ It saddens me to see all their efforts wasted. ❍ We were all saddened by her death. ❏ sadly adv ၁။ ဝမ္းနည္းစရာကေတာ့။ Sadly, we have no more money. ❍ HOPEFUL ၂။ ဆိုးဆိုးရြားရြား။ မ်ားစြာ။ a sadly neglected garden ❍ They had hoped to win and were sadly disappointed. ၃။ ဝမ္းပန္းတနည္း။ She looked at him sadly. ❏ sadness n ၁။ [U] ဝမ္းနည္းျခင္း။ The occasion was tinged with sadness. ၂။ [C usu pl ] ဝမ္းနည္းစရာ။ It was a great sadness to him that he never had children. ❏ sad to say [ IDM ] ဝမ္းနည္းဖြယ္ရာေကာင္းသည္မွာ။ ဝမ္းနည္းစရာကေတာ့။ Sad to say, the house has now been demolished.

Examples

  1. Reading her letter made us all feel a little sad.
  2. [sad about] : I felt sad about leaving him
  3. but I had no choice.
  4. [be sad to see/hear something] : I was very sad to hear that your mother had died.
  5. ‘I’m OK
  6. ’ she said in a sad voice.
  7. Sad eyes
  8. It was a sad day when we sold our home.
  9. Dad waited until after dinner to tell us the sad news.
  10. The only sad thing was that Jim couldn’t come to the party.
  11. The sad truth is that many children never learn to read.
  12. [it is sad that] : I think it’s sad that children spend so much time watching television.
  13. [something is a sad reflection on something/someone] : Teachers’ salaries are a sad reflection on our commitment to educating children.
  14. [a sad state of affairs] : It’s a sad state of affairs when people can’t be bothered to vote any more.
  15. I’m just one of those sad people who sit at home reading on Saturday night.