The Clue
Down, so to speak (3 letter answer)
The Answer
SAD
Tags
Notes
The answer SAD is seen frequently, appearing about once every 60 puzzles.
Related Clues
Blue
Bummed
Chapfallen
Dejected
Deplorable
Depressed
Depressing
Disconsolate
Down
Downcast
Frowning
In a funk
Lugubrious
Melancholy
Morose
Mournful
Plaintive
Rueful
___ sack
Sorry
Woebegone
Antithesis of gleeful
Feeling blue
Kind of sack
Like Niobe
Like one texting :-(
In low spirits
Needing buoying
Singing the blues
Type of sack
Kind of sack or iron
Like McCuller's cafe
"The ___ Sack" (W.W. II cartoon)
"Mr. Dieingly ___" (1966 Critters hit)
Definition
SAD as an adjective:
1. experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti
2. of things that make you feel sad; "sad news"; "she doesn't like sad movies"; "it was a very sad story"; "When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me"- Christina Rossetti
3. (deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry) = bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"