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careworn collapse: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens

tearful collapse: filled with or marked by tears; "tearful eyes"; "tearful entreaties"

affecting collapse: arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching"

depressing collapse: causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"

anguished collapse: experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation"

lament collapse: a cry of sorrow and grief; "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward"; express grief verbally; "we lamented the death of the child"

doleful collapse: filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news"

plaint collapse: a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court law asking for the grievance to be redressed

tragic collapse: very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident"; of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy; "tragic hero"

uncomfortable collapse: providing or experiencing physical discomfort; "an uncomfortable chair"; "an uncomfortable day in the hot sun"; conducive to or feeling mental discomfort; "this kind of life can prove disruptive and uncomfortable"; "the uncomfortable truth"; "grew uncomfortable beneath his appraising eye"; "an uncomfortable way of surprising me just when I felt surest"; "the teacher's presence at the conference made the child very uncomfortable"

forlorn collapse: marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"

plangent collapse: loud and resounding; "plangent bells"; "the plangent minority"

pathetic collapse: inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett; inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"

cheerless collapse: lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"

sob collapse: convulsive gasp made while weeping; weep convulsively; "He was sobbing inconsolably"

sorrowful collapse: experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13

woebegone collapse: affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier

afflicted collapse: mentally or physically unfit; grievously affected especially by disease

joyless collapse: not experiencing or inspiring joy; "a joyless man"; "a joyless occasion"; "joyless evenings"

whine collapse: complain whiningly; move with a whining sound; "The bullets were whining past us"

regrettable collapse: deserving regret; "regrettable remarks"; "it's regrettable that she didn't go to college"; "it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church"

distressing collapse: causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"

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