sag

1. 1.

   a shape that sags

   “there was a sag in the chair seat”

   Synonymsdroop

   Broaderdepression

Other forms of sag

plural

sags·

past tense or participle

sagged

present participle

sagging

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sag

What does sag mean?

sag means "droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sag?

sag has 1 syllable: sag. In IPA it is /ˈsæɡ/.

What is another word for sag?

Close synonyms include droop, swag, flag, sag down, droop. 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 sag a common word?

sag 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.