The Clue
Downhearted (3 letter answer)
The Answer
SAD
Tags
Notes
The answer SAD is seen frequently, appearing about once every 60 puzzles.
Related Clues
Atrabilious
Blue
Crestfallen
Dejected
Depressed
Disconsolate
Down
Downcast
Elegiac
Frowning
Glum
Lugubrious
Morose
Mournful
Pathetic
Regrettable
Rueful
Sorry
Unhappy
Woebegone
Wretched
In a blue funk
Bummed out
Down in the dumps
Kind of sack
Needing a lift
Not up
Poor, as an excuse
Full of tears, say
Kind of news or iron
Kind of sack or iron
Like McCuller's cafe
Like McCullers'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"