The Clue
In low spirits (3 letter answer)
The Answer
SAD
Tags
Notes
The answer SAD is seen frequently, appearing about once every 60 puzzles.
Related Clues
Blue
Dejected
Deplorable
Depressed
Depressing
Disconsolate
Dispirited
Down
Downcast
Elegiac
In a funk
Inferior
Melancholy
Morose
Mournful
Pathetic
Pitiful
Rueful
Sorry
Unhappy
Woebegone
Woeful
"___ but true"
Deplorably poor
Down in the dumps
Down in the mouth
Kind of sack
In need of a lift
Singing the blues
Full of tears, say
Kind of news or iron
Kind of sack or iron
Like some commentary
Jerry Lewis movie "The ___ Sack"
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"