Can the word "sad" mean "straight"?

Question

Can the word "sad" mean "straight"?

Answer 1

no....sad is an emotion....straight is a direction...

Although I do get sad when I see cute straight boys! hehehe

Answer 2

if your intention is to back-handed ask why g*y can mean happy it's because g*y was the word for happy back in the day. It was then used as a connotation for homosexuals because they seemed happy when they were in their element.  

Answer 3

Yes, though it's an obsolete meaning of 'sad'. I assume you meant 'straight' as in 'direct' and 'not curved'.

Here's one definition of 'sad' according to Dictionary.com:

<<  6. Obsolete. firm or steadfast.  >>

Answer 4

Words keep changing their meaning according to current usage. "g*y" meant "brightly colored".

"sad" is a very old word. Its English use derives from the Old Teutonic word for "full, satiated". Up to 1450, that was what it meant and its meaning expanded to "weary, tired". Up to the late 17th century its primary meaning became "settled, firmly established, constant." This took its meaning into situations which covered people's attitudes and it became associated with "mature, serious".

However, all the time it had this meaning of "sorrowful." from the late middle ages.

   To get an idea how the meaning of a word works, draw a circle with the word in the centre.

Thinking of examples, you will find that other words will overlap it at the periphery. Something that Wittgenstein called "the peripheral fluidity of meaning".

  So, you can say that at one time, but not in current received use, the word "sad" meant "straight".

  Unfortunately, sometimes words come to be spelled the same and then their meanings mingle, although years before they existed quite separately.