sad sack

Questions about sad sack

What does sad sack mean?

sad sack means "someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence".

What is another word for sad sack?

Close synonyms include bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sad sack a common word?

sad sack is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.