Related Searches
Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pathetic, woebegone |
| Synonyms: | beefing, bellyaching, cantankerous, crabby, cranky*, disconsolate, doleful, grief-stricken, grievous, grousing, grumpy*, heartrending, lamenting, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, out of sorts, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, rueful, sad, saddening, sorrowful, wailing, wistful, woeful |
| Notes: | a plaintiff is the party who brings an action in a court of law, while plaintive means expressive of sorrow or melancholy |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | somber |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sad, depressing |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, blue*, caliginous, cloudy, dark, depressive, dim, dingy, dire, dismal, dispiriting, doleful, down, drab, dragged, dreary, dull, dusky, earnest, funereal, gloomy, grave, grim, hurting, joyless, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, murky, no-nonsense, obscure, sedate, sepulchral, serious, shadowy, shady, sober, solemn, sourpuss, staid, tenebrous, weighty |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sorrowful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very upset; grieving |
| Synonyms: | affecting, afflicted, dejected, depressed, disconsolate, distressing, doleful, dolent, full of sorrow, grievous, heartbroken, heartrending, heavy-hearted, hurting, in mourning, in pain, in sorrow, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, mournful, painful, piteous, plaintive, rueful, ruthful, sad, sick at heart, singing the blues, sorry, tear-jerking, tearful, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, wretched |
| Antonyms: | delighted, happy, joyful |
| Main Entry: | tragic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | catastrophic, very bad |
| Synonyms: | adverse, anguished, appalling, awful, calamitous, cataclysmic, crushing, deadly, deathly, deplorable, desolate, destructive, dire, disastrous, doleful, dreadful, fatal, fateful, forlorn, grievous, grim, hapless, harrowing, heart-rending, heartbreaking, ill-fated, ill-starred, lamentable, miserable, mournful, painful, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, ruinous, sad, shocking, sorrowful, terrible, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, blessed, good, happy, successful |
| Main Entry: | woebegone |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, troubled |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, blue*, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, doleful, down, down-in-the-mouth, downcast, downhearted, dreary, forlorn, gloomy, grief-stricken, grim, hangdog, hurting, in pain, long-faced, low, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, mournful, sad, shot down, sorrowful, unhappy, woeful, wretched |
| Antonyms: | enthused, excited, happy, untroubled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | woeful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | terrible, sad |
| Synonyms: | afflicted, agonized, anguished, appalling, awful, bad, calamitous, catastrophic, cruel, deplorable, disappointing, disastrous, disconsolate, disgraceful, distressing, doleful, dreadful, feeble, gloomy, grieving, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, heartrending, heartsick, hopeless, inadequate, lamentable, lousy*, mean, miserable, mournful, paltry, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, plaintive, poor, racked, rotten, shocking, sorrowful, sorry, tortured, tragic, unfortunate, unhappy, wretched |
| Antonyms: | glad, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heartbroken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | melancholy |
| Synonyms: | brokenhearted, doleful, grief-stricken, heartsick, heartsore, sad, sorrowful |
| Main Entry: | lugubrious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | melancholy |
| Synonyms: | bleak, depressing, dismal, doleful, dour, funeral, gloomy, morose, mournful, sad, sorrowful, woebegone, woful |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, joyful |
| Main Entry: | heavyhearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | saddened |
| Synonyms: | dejected, depressed, despondent, doleful, melancholy, sad, unhappy |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, lighthearted |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
