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heartsick, brokenhearted

adj. full of sorrow

disconsolate, inconsolable, unconsolable

adj. sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled; "inconsolable when her son died"

dejected

adj. affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"

depressed, despairing, despondent, heartsick

adj. without or almost without hope; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back"

desolate, forlorn, godforsaken, lorn, sad

adj. marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"

melancholy, melancholic

adj. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"

miserable, wretched

adj. very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"

dreary, disconsolate, drear, joyless

adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

suffering, anguished, tormented

adj. experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation"

mourning, bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, sorrowing

adj. sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope"

bitter

adj. expressive of severe grief or regret; "shed bitter tears"

unhappy, saddening, doleful

adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"

weeping, dolorous, lachrymose, tearful

adj. showing sorrow

elegiac

adj. expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"

grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending

adj. causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"

lamentable

adj. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"

lugubrious

adj. excessively mournful

mournful, plaintive

adj. expressing sorrow

woeful, mournful, woebegone

adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier

sad

adj. 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

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