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hurting
adjective as in aching
adjective as in dejected
adjective as in depressed
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adjective as in desolate
adjective as in disconsolate
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adjective as in grief-stricken
adjective as in hurtful
adjective as in impoverished
adjective as in lamentable
adjective as in melancholic
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- bummed out
- cast down
- crestfallen
- crummy
- dejected
- desolate
- despondent
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- dispirited
- down and out
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downhearted
- dragged
- dull
- dysphoric
- fed up
- glum
- grim
- heavy-hearted
- in a blue funk
- in pain
- in the dumps
- in the pits
- in the toilet
- let down
- low-spirited
- morose
- on a downer
- pessimistic
- ripped
- sad
- sob story
- spiritless
- taken down
- torn-up
- tristful
- unhappy
- woebegone
adjective as in miserable
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- afflicted
- agonized
- ailing
- anguished
- brokenhearted
- crestfallen
- dejected
- depressed
- desolate
- despairing
- despondent
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- discontented
- distressed
- doleful
- dolorous
- down
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- forlorn
- heartbroken
- hopeless
- hurt
- ill
- in pain
- injured
- melancholy
- mournful
- not happy
- on a downer
- pained
- pitiable
- racked
- rueful
- ruthful
- sick
- sickly
- sorrowful
- strained
- suffering
- tormented
- tortured
- troubled
- woebegone
- wounded
adjective as in nagging
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adjective as in opprobrious
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- abasing
- calumniatory
- contemptuous
- contumelious
- damaging
- debasing
- defamatory
- defaming
- denigrating
- depreciative
- derogative
- despicable
- despiteful
- detractive
- disgracing
- dishonoring
- disparaging
- humiliating
- injuring
- injurious
- insolent
- insulting
- invective
- libeling
- malevolent
- malign
- malignant
- maligning
- notorious
- offending
- offensive
- pejorative
- reproaching
- reviling
- scandalous
- scurrilous
- shaming
- spiteful
- truculent
- vile
- vitriolic
- vituperative
- vulgar
adjective as in painful
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adjective as in sad
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adjective as in smarting
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adjective as in somber
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adjective as in sore
adjective as in sorrowful
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adjective as in tristful
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- bad
- blue
- bummed out
- cast down
- crestfallen
- crummy
- dejected
- desolate
- despondent
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- dispirited
- down
- down and out
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- dragged
- dull
- dysphoric
- fed up
- gloomy
- glum
- grim
- heavy-hearted
- in a blue funk
- in pain
- in the dumps
- in the pits
- in the toilet
- let down
- low
- low-down
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- melancholic
- melancholy
- moody
- morose
- on a downer
- pessimistic
- ripped
- sad
- spiritless
- taken down
- torn-up
- unhappy
- weeping
- wistful
- woebegone
adjective as in unhappy
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- bleak
- blue
- bummed out
- chapfallen
- cheerless
- crestfallen
- dejected
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- discouraged
- dismal
- dispirited
- distressed
- doleful
- down
- down and out
- down in the mouth
- downbeat
- downcast
- downhearted
- dragged
- dreary
- forlorn
- gloomy
- grim
- heavy-hearted
- in a blue funk
- in pain
- in the dumps
- let-down
- long-faced
- low
- melancholy
- mirthless
- mournful
- saddened
- sorrowful
- teary
adjective as in woebegone
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adjective as in wretched
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noun as in adversity
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noun as in anguish
noun as in craving
noun as in heartache
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noun as in misery
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Example Sentences
He continued to pressure his opponent in the second round, hurting Miocic with a body kick and landing a knee from the clinch, before the former champion responded with a trademark straight right.
When she became pregnant with her eldest child Conall, now six, Debbie's seizures decreased, but her biggest fear was still falling and hurting her baby.
“We're leaving behind the strongest economy in the world. I know people are still hurting, but things are changing rapidly,” Biden said, citing America’s post-COVID economic recovery compared to other Western democracies.
“It was really hurting people, and we just didn’t respond in the way that we could have and should have on policy, to an extent, but definitely on communications.”
If the former president is reelected, “I know that he’s just going to be so much worse, and people are going to be hurting.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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