3
out of sorts(expression, idiom, sad, unstable, bitter)
3
painful(adjective, sad, awful, miserable, grim)
3
peevish(adjective, feelings)
3
plangent
3
poignant(adjective, sad, wretched, pitiful, pathetic)
3
saddened(adjective, sad, gloomy, miserable, down)
3
snappish(adjective, feelings)
3
surly(adjective, feelings)
3
wailful(adjective, bad, sad, sorrow, depression)
2
atrabilious(sad, unhappy, miserable, dejection)
2
bilious
2
comfortless(adjective, sad, sorrow, depression, woe)
2
crushed(adjective, sad, unhappy, gloomy)
2
disappointing(adjective, sad, sorrow, depression, woe)
2
discouraged(low, sad, unhappy, miserable, depressed)
2
down-in-the-mouth(bad, sad, unhappy, miserable, depressed)
2
down in the mouth(expression, adjective, idiom, bad, blue)
2
downbeat(adjective, blue, sad, depression, gloomy)
2
dragged(adjective, dull, bad, blue, sad)
2
elegiac(adjective, sad, gloomy, melancholy, sorrowful)
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