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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | miserable, pathetic |
| Synonyms: | beseeching, commiserable, deplorable, distressing, doleful, dolorous, entreating, grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending, imploring, lamentable, melancholy, mournful, moving, pitiable, pitiful, plaintive, poignant, poor, rueful, ruined, sad, sorrowful, supplicating, woeful, wretched |
| Notes: | piteous is generally not used when speaking of people, pitiable means 'able to be pitied,' and pitiful most often means 'insignificant; below contempt' |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy |
| Main Entry: | plaintive |
| 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: | regrettable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, wrong |
| Synonyms: | afflictive, calamitous, deplorable, dire, disappointing, distressing, dreadful, grievous, heartbreaking, ill-advised, lamentable, pitiable, pitiful, sad, shameful, unfavorable, unhappy, woeful |
| Notes: | a person is regretful; a situation may be regrettable |
| Antonyms: | blessed, fortunate, happy, lucky, right |
| Main Entry: | saturnine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy |
| Synonyms: | blue*, cheerless, dejected, depressed, desolate, despondent, dispirited, dour, down, down in the dumps, forlorn, glum, grave, hopeless, in low spirits, in the dumps, low, melancholy, miserable, moping, morose, sad, solemn, sorrowful, sulky, sullen, unhappy, woebegone, woeful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sinister |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, menacing |
| Synonyms: | adverse, apocalyptic, bad, baleful, baneful, blackhearted, corrupt, deleterious, dire, disastrous, dishonest, disquieting, doomful, evil, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, ill-boding, inauspicious, injurious, lowering, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, obnoxious, ominous, pernicious, perverse, poisonous, portentous, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, woeful |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, kind, nice |
| 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: | tearful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crying, very upset |
| Synonyms: | bawling, blubbering, blubbery, distressed, dolorous, in tears, lachrymose, lamentable, lamenting, moist, mournful, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poignant, sad, sniveling, sobbing, sorrowful, teary, watery, weeping, weepy, wet, whimpering, woeful |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy |
| 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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