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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | regretful |
| Synonyms: | apologetic, ashamed, deplorable, lamentable, mournful, remorseful, repentant, sad, sorrowful, sorry |
| Main Entry: | sorry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | despicable, pathetic |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, beggarly, cheap, contemptible, deplorable, despisable, disgraceful, dismal, distressing, inadequate, insignificant, mean, miserable, paltry, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, sad, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shoddy, small, trifling, trivial, unimportant, vile, worthless, wretched |
| Antonyms: | good, hopeful, nice |
| 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: | unforgivable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inexcusable |
| Synonyms: | blameworthy, contemptible, deplorable, disgraceful, indefensible, inexpiable, not forgivable, outrageous, reprehensible, shameful, unallowable, unconscionable, unjustifiable, unpardonable, unpermissible, untenable, wrong |
| Main Entry: | unfortunate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unlucky, bad |
| Synonyms: | adverse, afflicted, broken, burdened, calamitous, cursed, damaging, deplorable, desperate, destitute, disastrous, doomed, forsaken, hapless, hopeless, ill-fated, ill-starred, in a bad way, inappropriate, infelicitous, inopportune, jinxed, lamentable, luckless, out of luck, pained, poor, regrettable, ruined, ruinous, shattered, star-crossed, stricken, troubled, unbecoming, unfavorable, unhappy, unpropitious, unprosperous, unsuccessful, unsuitable, untoward, wretched |
| Antonyms: | fortunate, good, happy, lucky, timely |
| Main Entry: | villainous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | criminal |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, bad, corrupt, crooked, cruel, culpable, deplorable, depraved, diabolical, dirty, evil, felonious, hateful, ignoble, illegal, illicit, immoral, iniquitous, knavish, lawless, low, mean, nefarious, peccant, reprehensible, scandalous, shady*, sinful, unlawful, vile, wicked |
* = 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: | wretched |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | terrible, very bad |
| Synonyms: | abject, afflicted, base, bummed, calamitous, cheap, contemptible, dejected, deplorable, depressed, despicable, disconsolate, distressed, dolorous, down, down-and-out, downcast, faulty, flimsy, forlorn, gloomy, hapless, hopeless, hurting, in the pits, inferior, low, low-down, mean, melancholy, miserable, paltry, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, shabby, shameful, sordid, sorrowful, sorry, spiritless, tragic, unfortunate, unhappy, vile, weak, woebegone, woeful, worthless |
| Antonyms: | good, nice |
| Main Entry: | shocked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amazed |
| Synonyms: | aghast, appalled, appalling, astonished, degrading, deplorable, dismayed, frightened, humiliating, infra dig, jarred, opprobrious, percussive, shocking, squeamish, stupefied, ugly, vulgar |
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