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Adjectives (8)
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woeful
adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
woebegone, woeful
adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched
adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
Fuzzynyms (105)
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dejected
adj. affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"
deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched
adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
funereal, sepulchral
adj. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones"
woebegone, woeful
adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
glum
adj. moody and melancholic
gloomy, dismal, sorry
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"
deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry
adj. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry
adj. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
dejected
adj. affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"
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"
chapfallen, chopfallen, crestfallen, deflated
adj. brought low in spirit; "left us fatigued and deflated spiritually"
miserable, suffering, 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"
deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched
adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
funereal, sepulchral
adj. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones"
woeful
adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
miserable, wretched
adj. characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
adj. deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
gloomy, dismal, sorry
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"
abject
adj. most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"
deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry
adj. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
fearful, frightful
adj. extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake"
forlorn
adj. marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"
gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited
adj. filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
self-destructive, suicidal
adj. dangerous to yourself or your interests; "suicidal impulses"; "a suicidal corporate takeover strategy"; "a kamikaze pilot"
dejected
adj. affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"
despondent, heartsick
adj. without or almost without hope; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back"
woebegone, woeful
adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
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"
chapfallen, chopfallen, crestfallen, deflated
adj. brought low in spirit; "left us fatigued and deflated spiritually"
miserable, suffering, 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"
woeful
adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive
adj. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
Synonyms (68)
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regretful, sorry, bad
adj. feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase"
nostalgic
adj. unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons
lovesick
adj. languishing because of love; "strong men behaving like lovesick boys"
miserable, suffering, 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"
suffering
adj. troubled by pain or loss; "suffering refugees"
bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning(a), sorrowing(a)
adj. sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope"
bitter
adj. proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity; "a bitter struggle"; "bitter enemies"
brokenhearted, heartbroken, heartsick
adj. full of sorrow
unhappy, saddening, doleful
adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"
dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping
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
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
bad
adj. below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"
base
adj. debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"
bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny
adj. of very poor quality; flimsy
cardboard, flimsy
adj. resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"
cheapjack, shoddy, tawdry
adj. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
coarse, common
adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
coarsened
adj. made coarse or crude by lack of skill
commercial, commercial-grade
adj. of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior; "commercial grade of beef"; "commercial oxalic acid"
less
adj. (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer; "less than three weeks"; "no less than 50 people attended"; "in 25 words or less"
low-grade
adj. of inferior quality
mediocre
adj. poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"
ropey, ropy
adj. (British informal) very poor in quality; "ropey food"; "a ropey performance"
scrawny, scrubby, stunted
adj. inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"
second-class
adj. of inferior status or quality; "a second-class citizen"; "second-class accommodations"
third-rate
adj. of lesser quality than second-rate
utility(a), utility-grade
adj. used of beef; usable but inferior
Antonyms (4)
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cheerful
adj. being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greeting"; "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be"
gladsome
adj. experiencing or expressing gladness or joy; "a gladsome smile"; "a gladsome occasion"
joyful
adj. full of or producing joy; "make a joyful noise"; "a joyful occasion"
happy
adj. enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage"
woeful
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