The Clue
Long-faced (3 letter answer)
The Answer
SAD
Tags
Notes
The answer SAD is seen frequently, appearing about once every 60 puzzles.
Related Clues
Atrabilious
Blue
Depressed
Depressing
Despondent
Disconsolate
Down
Downcast
Elegiac
Frowning
Gloomy
"How ___"
Plaintive
Regrettable
Sorrowful
Sorry
Woeful
Kind of story
In need of a lift
Not up
Poor, as an excuse
Sack or iron
Singing the blues
Full of tears, say
Kind of news or iron
"The ___ Sack" (W.W. II cartoon)
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"