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sunk
adjective as in damaged
adjective as in deep
adjective as in despairing
Strongest matches
adjective as in desperate
Strongest matches
adjective as in done for
adjective as in doomed
Strong matches
adjective as in downcast
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- bummed out
- cast down
- chapfallen
- cheerless
- crestfallen
- daunted
- dejected
- despondent
- disappointed
- disconsolate
- disheartened
- dismayed
- dispirited
- distressed
- doleful
- down in the dumps
- down-in-the-mouth
- downhearted
- dragged
- droopy
- dull
- gloomy
- glum
- heartsick
- in pain
- listless
- low-spirited
- miserable
- mopey
- morose
- oppressed
- sad
- shot down
- singing the blues
- troubled
- weighed down
- woebegone
adjective as in drowned
adjective as in hopeless
Weak matches
- bad
- beyond recall
- cynical
- dejected
- demoralized
- despairing
- despondent
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- downhearted
- fatal
- gone
- goner
- ill-fated
- impracticable
- in despair
- incurable
- irredeemable
- irreparable
- irreversible
- irrevocable
- lost
- menacing
- no-win
- past hope
- shot down
- sinister
- threatening
- unachievable
- unavailing
- unfortunate
- unmitigable
- up the creek
- vain
- woebegone
- worsening
adjective as in irremediable
Weak matches
- bad
- beyond recall
- cureless
- cynical
- dejected
- demoralized
- despairing
- desperate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- downhearted
- fatal
- forlorn
- gone
- goner
- helpless
- ill-fated
- impossible
- impracticable
- in despair
- incurable
- irredeemable
- irreparable
- irreversible
- irrevocable
- lost
- menacing
- no-win
- past hope
- pointless
- sad
- shot down
- sinister
- threatening
- tragic
- unachievable
- unavailing
- unfortunate
- unmitigable
- up the creek
- useless
- vain
- woebegone
- worsening
adjective as in kaput
adjective as in reduced
Strongest matches
Weak match
Example Sentences
Most were fishermen whose boats sunk or capsized.
“If telephone poles sunk into the soil worked for 75 years, why do we need to build Hitler’s bunker under the sand?”
Mitchell hasn’t sunk all of his money into these nickels, of course.
Relations between Ivory Coast and military-ruled Burkina Faso have sunk to a low, each government accusing the other of destabilisation.
Narco-subs have become a popular way to transport drugs as they can go largely undetected, and can be sunk after delivery.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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