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Adjectives (12)
woeful
adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
mournful, woebegone
adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
miserable, wretched, execrable, deplorable
adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
sorry, pitiful, sad, deplorable, 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"
Fuzzynyms (158)
dejected
adj. affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"
miserable, wretched, execrable, deplorable, woeful
adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
gloomy, funereal, sepulchral
adj. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones"
woeful, mournful, woebegone
adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
long-faced, gloomy, glum
adj. reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"
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"
sorry, pitiful, sad, deplorable, lamentable, woeful
adj. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
sorry, pitiful, sad, deplorable, lamentable, woeful
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, 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"
miserable, wretched, execrable, deplorable, woeful
adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
gloomy, 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"
miserable, wretched, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, hapless, misfortunate, piteous, poor
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"
sorry, pitiful, sad, deplorable, lamentable, woeful
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, atrocious, awful, dreadful, terrible, unspeakable
adj. exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
desperate, forlorn
adj. "a hopeless attempt"
down, downcast, low, depressed, dispirited, downhearted, low-spirited
adj. low in spirits; "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"
depressed, despairing, despondent, heartsick
adj. without or almost without hope; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back"
woeful, mournful, woebegone
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, 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
repulsive, obscene, detestable, abhorrent, repugnant
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"
woeful, mournful, woebegone
adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
miserable, wretched, execrable, deplorable, woeful
adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
crying, rank, gross, egregious, flagrant
adj. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
ill-famed, infamous, notorious
adj. having an exceedingly bad reputation; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"
regrettable, too bad
adj. deserving regret; "regrettable remarks"; "it's regrettable that she didn't go to college"; "it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church"
criminal, shameful, condemnable, reprehensible
adj. bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"
sorrowful
adj. experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13
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
contemptible
adj. deserving of contempt or scorn
abominable, execrable, detestable, odious
adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
repulsive, obscene, detestable, abhorrent, repugnant
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"
insignificant, unimportant
adj. not important or noteworthy
disgraceful, scandalous, shocking
adj. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time"
pathetic, pitiable, pitiful
adj. inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"
unhappy, saddening, doleful
adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"
woeful
adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
Synonyms (102)
bad, sorry, regretful
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"
homesick, nostalgic
adj. unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons
lovesick
adj. languishing because of love; "strong men behaving like lovesick boys"
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"
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"
heartsick, brokenhearted, heartbroken
adj. full of sorrow
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
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. (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"
bum, punk, cheap, chintzy, tinny, sleazy, cheesy, crummy, tatty
adj. of very poor quality; flimsy
cardboard, flimsy
adj. resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"
shoddy, cheapjack, tawdry
adj. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
common, crude, coarse
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
adj. of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior; "commercial grade of beef"; "commercial oxalic acid"
less
adj. (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"
low-grade
adj. of inferior quality
poor, mediocre, second-rate
adj. moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"
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, utility-grade
adj. used of beef; usable but inferior
fearful, atrocious, awful, dreadful, terrible, unspeakable
adj. exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
mischievous, naughty, badly behaved
adj. badly behaved; "he was saucy and mischievous in school"; "a naughty boy"
corked, corky
adj. (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin; "a corked port"
severe, distressing
adj. very bad in degree or extent; "a severe worldwide depression"; "the house suffered severe damage"
disturbing
adj. causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"
fine, pretty
adj. (used ironically) unexpectedly bad; "a pretty mess"; "a pretty kettle of fish"
tough, hard
adj. unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"
horrid
adj. exceedingly bad; "when she was bad she was horrid"
incompetent, unskilled
adj. not doing a good job; "incompetent at chess"
negative
adj. having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant; "ran a negative campaign"; "delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life"
poor
adj. unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor"
swingeing
adj. severe; punishingly bad; "swingeing taxation"; "swingeing damages awarded by the judge"
uncollectible
adj. not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible) debt"
unfavorable, unfavourable
adj. not favorable; "made an unfavorable impression"; "unfavorable reviews"
unacceptable, unsatisfactory
adj. "the pay is unsatisfactory and the conditions are unacceptable"
unsuitable
adj. not conducive to good moral development; "the movie is unsuitable for children"
Antonyms (3)
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"
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 or good fortune; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage"
woeful
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