The Clue
Like an elegy (3 letter answer)
The Answer
SAD
Tags
Notes
The answer SAD is seen frequently, appearing about once every 60 puzzles.
Related Clues
Blue
Bummed
Dejected
Deplorable
Depressed
Despondent
Disconsolate
Dispirited
Doleful
Down
Downcast
Frowning
Glum
Grieving
Heartsick
"How ___"
Melancholy
Moping
Mournful
Pitiful
Regrettable
Rueful
Sorry
Antithesis of gleeful
Bummed out
Down in the mouth
Feeling blue
Insufficient, as an excuse
Kind of sack
Like Niobe
In need of a lift
Like McCuller's cafe
Like some commentary
"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"