sad vs sparkling

sad

adj
  • Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull. 

  • Soggy (to refer to pastries). 

  • Causing sorrow; lamentable. 

  • Appearing sorrowful. 

  • Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful. 

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

  • Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable. 

sparkling

adj
  • Of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks or flashes of light. 

  • Of a beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage, containing dissolved carbon dioxide (either naturally or that has been added) that comes out of solution in the form of many tiny bubbles. 

  • Brilliant and vivacious. 

noun
  • Act or appearance of something that sparkles; a sparkle; a gleam. 

  • A sparkling wine. 

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