Related Words:
- joyless
collapse - not experiencing or inspiring joy; "a joyless man"; "a joyless occasion"; "joyless evenings" related words >
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- anguished,
- anxious,
- austere,
- bitter,
- black,
- bleak,
- bored,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- crestfallen,
- dejected,
- deplorable,
- depressant,
- depressed,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- despondent,
- discomforting,
- disconsolate,
- discontented,
- disgusted,
- disheartened,
- disheartening,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- dispirited,
- dispiriting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- down,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- dreary,
- gloomy,
- grief-stricken,
- grievous,
- grim,
- heartsick,
- humorless,
- in bad humor,
- inconsolable,
- infestive,
- inhospitable,
- lamentable,
- lugubrious,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- mirthless,
- miserable,
- morose,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nauseated,
- nauseous,
- oppressive,
- out of humor,
- out of sorts,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pleasureless,
- poignant,
- prey to malaise,
- regrettable,
- repelled,
- revolted,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddened,
- saddening,
- severe,
- sharp,
- sickened,
- somber,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- sorryish,
- suffering angst,
- touching,
- triste,
- uncheerful,
- uncheery,
- uncomfortable,
- uneasy,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unjoyful,
- unmirthful,
- unquiet,
- unsatisfied,
- unsmiling,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
- Jeremianic,
- annoyed,
- bad-tempered,
- beefing,
- bellyaching,
- bemoaning,
- bitching,
- blubbering,
- cantankerous,
- carping,
- catty,
- censorious,
- choleric,
- complaining,
- complaintful,
- crabbing,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- critical,
- criticizing,
- croaking,
- cross,
- crotchety,
- crusty,
- crying,
- disappointed,
- discontented,
- disgruntled,
- displeased,
- dissatisfied,
- dyspeptic,
- envious,
- faultfinding,
- finical,
- finicky,
- fractious,
- fretful,
- fussy,
- griping,
- grouchy,
- grousing,
- growling,
- grumbling,
- grumpy,
- howling,
- huffy,
- hypercritical,
- ill-humored,
- ill-natured,
- ill-tempered,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- irritated,
- lamenting,
- lamentive,
- malcontent,
- malcontented,
- moanful,
- mournful,
- murmuring,
- muttering,
- nagging,
- naggy,
- out of humor,
- peevish,
- perverse,
- pettish,
- petulant,
- piqued,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- puling,
- quarrelsome,
- querulant,
- rebellious,
- resentful,
- restive,
- restless,
- shrewish,
- snappish,
- sorrowful,
- sour,
- splenetic,
- sulky,
- testy,
- touchy,
- ululant,
- unaccepting,
- unaccommodating,
- uneasy,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unsatisfied,
- vixenish,
- vixenly,
- wailful,
- wailing,
- waspish,
- weeping,
- whimpering,
- whining,
- whiny
- Jeremianic,
- beef,
- beefing,
- bellyache,
- bellyaching,
- bitch,
- bitching,
- complaint,
- complaintful,
- crabbing,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- croaking,
- destructive criticism,
- disappointed,
- discontented,
- disgruntled,
- displeased,
- disputatious,
- disputing,
- dissatisfied,
- dissent,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- envious,
- faultfinding,
- fractious,
- fretful,
- grievance,
- gripe,
- griping,
- groan,
- groaning,
- grouchy,
- grouse,
- grousing,
- growling,
- grumbling,
- holler,
- howl,
- howling,
- kick,
- kicking,
- lamentive,
- malcontent,
- malcontented,
- moanful,
- mournful,
- murmuring,
- muttering,
- noncooperative,
- objecting,
- obstructive,
- on the barricades,
- out of humor,
- peeve,
- peevish,
- peevishness,
- pet peeve,
- petulance,
- petulant,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- proof against,
- protest,
- protesting,
- puling,
- querulant,
- querulous,
- querulousness,
- rebellious,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- reluctant,
- renitent,
- repellent,
- resentful,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- resistive,
- restive,
- restless,
- retardant,
- retardative,
- scolding,
- sniping,
- sorrowful,
- squawk,
- squawking,
- sulky,
- ululant,
- unaccepting,
- unaccommodating,
- uncooperative,
- uneasy,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unsatisfied,
- unsubmissive,
- unyielding,
- up in arms,
- wailful,
- whimpering,
- whining,
- whiny,
- withstanding,
- yapping
- regrettable
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- 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" related words >
- abominable,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- bitter,
- blameworthy,
- bleak,
- brutal,
- calamitous,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- contemptible,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- dire,
- discomforting,
- disgusting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreadful,
- dreary,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- execrable,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grievous,
- gross,
- hateful,
- heartbreaking,
- heinous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- infamous,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- monstrous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- outrageous,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poignant,
- rank,
- reprehensible,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- rough,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- shaming,
- sharp,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sordid,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- squalid,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- touching,
- tough,
- unclean,
- uncomfortable,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- upsetting,
- vile,
- villainous,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched,
- wrong
- mournful
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- expressing sorrow related words >
- Jeremianic,
- affecting,
- afflicted,
- afflictive,
- aggrieved,
- anguished,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- blue,
- calamitous,
- careworn,
- catastrophic,
- cheerless,
- cinerary,
- comfortless,
- complaining,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- despairing,
- despondent,
- dirgelike,
- disastrous,
- discomforting,
- disconsolate,
- disheartening,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- dispirited,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- downhearted,
- dreary,
- dumb with grief,
- epitaphic,
- exequial,
- faultfinding,
- feral,
- forlorn,
- fretful,
- funebrial,
- funebrious,
- funebrous,
- funeral,
- funerary,
- funereal,
- grief-stricken,
- griefful,
- grieved,
- grievous,
- heartbroken,
- heartsick,
- howling,
- in grief,
- inconsolable,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- lamentive,
- lugubrious,
- melancholy,
- moanful,
- mortuary,
- moving,
- necrological,
- obituary,
- obsequial,
- overcome,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- peevish,
- petulant,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- plunged in grief,
- poignant,
- prostrate,
- puling,
- querulous,
- regrettable,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- sepulchral,
- sharp,
- sore,
- sorrowed,
- sorrowful,
- sorrowing,
- tearful,
- touching,
- tragic,
- ululant,
- uncomfortable,
- unhappy,
- upsetting,
- wailful,
- whimpering,
- whining,
- whiny,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
- Jeremianic,
- arbitrary,
- bad-tempered,
- beefing,
- bellyaching,
- bilious,
- bitching,
- cantankerous,
- capricious,
- captious,
- catty,
- choleric,
- complaining,
- complaintful,
- crabbed,
- crabbing,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- croaking,
- cross,
- crotchety,
- disappointed,
- discontented,
- disgruntled,
- displeased,
- dissatisfied,
- envious,
- fanciful,
- fantasied,
- fantastic,
- faultfinding,
- flaky,
- fractious,
- freakish,
- fretful,
- griping,
- grouchy,
- grousing,
- growling,
- grumbling,
- grumpy,
- harebrained,
- howling,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- humorsome,
- ill-humored,
- ill-tempered,
- impatient,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- kinky,
- lamentive,
- maggoty,
- malcontent,
- malcontented,
- moanful,
- moody,
- motiveless,
- mournful,
- murmuring,
- muttering,
- nagging,
- naggy,
- notional,
- out of humor,
- peevish,
- perverse,
- pettish,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- puling,
- querulant,
- querulous,
- quirky,
- rebellious,
- resentful,
- restive,
- restless,
- shrewish,
- snappish,
- sorrowful,
- sour,
- splenetic,
- sulky,
- temperamental,
- testy,
- ululant,
- unaccepting,
- unaccommodating,
- uneasy,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unreasonable,
- unrestrained,
- unsatisfied,
- vagarious,
- vagrant,
- vixenish,
- vixenly,
- wailful,
- wanton,
- waspish,
- wayward,
- whimpering,
- whimsical,
- whining,
- whiny
- 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" related words >
- acute,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- agonizing,
- annoying,
- atrocious,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- bothersome,
- calamitous,
- chafing,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- corrupting,
- corruptive,
- counterproductive,
- cramping,
- cruel,
- damaging,
- deadly,
- deleterious,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- detrimental,
- dire,
- disadvantageous,
- discomforting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- disquieting,
- disserviceable,
- distressful,
- disturbing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreary,
- excruciating,
- fretting,
- gnawing,
- grave,
- grievous,
- griping,
- harassing,
- hard,
- harmful,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- heartbreaking,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- injurious,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- lethal,
- malefic,
- malevolent,
- malign,
- malignant,
- mischievous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- ominous,
- painful,
- paroxysmal,
- pathetic,
- pernicious,
- piercing,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- plaguing,
- poignant,
- poisonous,
- prejudicial,
- pungent,
- racking,
- regrettable,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scatheful,
- severe,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- touching,
- toxic,
- troublesome,
- uncomfortable,
- unfortunate,
- upsetting,
- venenate,
- veneniferous,
- venenous,
- venomous,
- vicious,
- virulent,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worrisome,
- worrying,
- wretched
- abominable,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- aggrieved,
- anguished,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- bitter,
- blameworthy,
- bleak,
- brutal,
- calamitous,
- careworn,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- contemptible,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- dire,
- discomforting,
- disgusting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreadful,
- dreary,
- dumb with grief,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grief-stricken,
- griefful,
- grieved,
- grievous,
- gross,
- hateful,
- heartbreaking,
- heinous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- in grief,
- infamous,
- intolerable,
- joyless,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- lugubrious,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- outrageous,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- plunged in grief,
- poignant,
- rank,
- regrettable,
- reprehensible,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- sharp,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sordid,
- sore,
- sorrowed,
- sorrowful,
- sorrowing,
- squalid,
- tearful,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- touching,
- unclean,
- uncomfortable,
- unfortunate,
- vile,
- villainous,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched
- abject,
- apologetic,
- ashamed,
- bad,
- base,
- base-minded,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- beneath one,
- cheap,
- cheerless,
- cheesy,
- common,
- compunctious,
- conscience-smitten,
- conscience-stricken,
- contemptible,
- contrite,
- crummy,
- debasing,
- degrading,
- demeaning,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- despicable,
- discontented,
- disgraceful,
- dismal,
- full of remorse,
- gaudy,
- gimcracky,
- grim,
- gutter,
- heavyhearted,
- humiliating,
- humiliative,
- humorless,
- ignoble,
- ill-starred,
- in bad humor,
- inadequate,
- infestive,
- infra dig,
- infra indignitatem,
- joyless,
- low,
- low-minded,
- mean,
- melancholy,
- meretricious,
- mirthless,
- miserable,
- opprobrious,
- out of humor,
- out of sorts,
- outrageous,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- penitent,
- penitential,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pleasureless,
- poor,
- regretful,
- remorseful,
- repentant,
- repining,
- rubbishy,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddened,
- scandalous,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- self-accusing,
- self-condemning,
- self-convicting,
- self-debasing,
- self-flagellating,
- self-humiliating,
- self-punishing,
- self-reproaching,
- shabby,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shameful,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sordid,
- sorrowful,
- sorryish,
- star-crossed,
- stark,
- too bad,
- trashy,
- trifling,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- unbecoming,
- uncheerful,
- uncheery,
- unhappy,
- unhappy about,
- unjoyful,
- unmirthful,
- unsmiling,
- unworthy of one,
- valueless,
- vile,
- wistful,
- worthless,
- wretched
- bleak
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- unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic" related words >
- Siberian,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- affording no hope,
- algid,
- apathetic,
- arctic,
- austere,
- bare,
- barren,
- below zero,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bitterly cold,
- black,
- blown,
- boreal,
- brisk,
- brumal,
- cheerless,
- chilly,
- cold,
- cold as charity,
- cold as death,
- cold as ice,
- cold as marble,
- comfortless,
- crisp,
- cutting,
- dark,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- despairing,
- desperate,
- despondent,
- discomforting,
- disconsolate,
- disheartening,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dour,
- drear,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- exposed,
- forlorn,
- freezing,
- freezing cold,
- frigid,
- funebrial,
- funereal,
- gelid,
- glacial,
- gloomy,
- grave,
- gray,
- grievous,
- grim,
- hard,
- harsh,
- hibernal,
- hiemal,
- hopeless,
- hyperborean,
- ice-cold,
- ice-encrusted,
- icelike,
- icy,
- in despair,
- inclement,
- joyless,
- keen,
- lamentable,
- melancholy,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nipping,
- nippy,
- numbing,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- pinching,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- poignant,
- raw,
- regrettable,
- rigorous,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- saturnine,
- severe,
- sharp,
- sleety,
- slushy,
- snappy,
- solemn,
- somber,
- sombrous,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- stone-cold,
- stringent,
- subzero,
- supercooled,
- touching,
- triste,
- uncomfortable,
- unhappy,
- unhopeful,
- weariful,
- wearisome,
- weary,
- windblown,
- windswept,
- winterbound,
- winterlike,
- wintery,
- wintry,
- without hope,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
- faultfinding
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- persistent petty and unjustified criticism related words >
- Jeremianic,
- adverse criticism,
- animadversion,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- beef,
- beefing,
- bellyache,
- bellyaching,
- bitch,
- bitching,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- complaining,
- complaint,
- complaintful,
- crabbing,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- critical,
- criticism,
- croaking,
- cynical,
- destructive criticism,
- disappointed,
- discontented,
- disgruntled,
- displeased,
- dissatisfied,
- dissent,
- envious,
- exception,
- flak,
- fretful,
- grievance,
- gripe,
- griping,
- groan,
- groaning,
- grouchy,
- grouse,
- grousing,
- growling,
- grumbling,
- hairsplitting,
- hit,
- holler,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- howl,
- howling,
- hypercritical,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- imputation,
- kick,
- kicking,
- knock,
- lamentive,
- malcontent,
- malcontented,
- moanful,
- mournful,
- murmuring,
- muttering,
- nagging,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- obloquy,
- out of humor,
- overcritical,
- overcriticalness,
- peeve,
- peevish,
- peevishness,
- pestering,
- pet peeve,
- pettifogging,
- petulance,
- petulant,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- priggishness,
- protest,
- puling,
- querulant,
- querulous,
- querulousness,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- rebellious,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- resentful,
- restive,
- restless,
- scolding,
- slam,
- sniping,
- sorrowful,
- squawk,
- squawking,
- stricture,
- sulky,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- ultracritical,
- ululant,
- unaccepting,
- unaccommodating,
- uneasy,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unsatisfied,
- wailful,
- whimpering,
- whining,
- whiny,
- yapping
- painful
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- causing physical or psychological pain; "worked with painful slowness" related words >
- Herculean,
- aching,
- achy,
- acute,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- aggravating,
- agonizing,
- algetic,
- annoying,
- arduous,
- assiduous,
- atrocious,
- backbreaking,
- besetting,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- bothersome,
- burdensome,
- burning,
- careful,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- conscientious,
- cramping,
- cruel,
- crushing,
- demanding,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- detailed,
- diligent,
- discomforting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- disquieting,
- distasteful,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreary,
- earnest,
- effortful,
- exacting,
- exasperating,
- excruciating,
- forced,
- galling,
- gnawing,
- grave,
- grievous,
- griping,
- grueling,
- harassing,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- joyless,
- killing,
- labored,
- laborious,
- lamentable,
- meticulous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- painstaking,
- paroxysmal,
- pathetic,
- piercing,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- plaguey,
- poignant,
- pungent,
- punishing,
- racking,
- raw,
- regrettable,
- rigorous,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scrupulous,
- sedulous,
- sensitive,
- severe,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- smarting,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- tender,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- throbbing,
- toilsome,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- touching,
- tough,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- trying,
- unappetizing,
- uncomfortable,
- unpalatable,
- unpleasant,
- unsavory,
- uphill,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worrisome,
- worrying,
- wretched
- deplorable
collapse
- bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
- of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" related words >
- abominable,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- appalling,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- bad,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- beneath one,
- bitter,
- blameworthy,
- bleak,
- brutal,
- calamitous,
- cheap,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- contemptible,
- debasing,
- degrading,
- demeaning,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desperate,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- difficult,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- discomforting,
- disgraceful,
- disgusting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- disreputable,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreadful,
- dreary,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- execrable,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grave,
- grievous,
- gross,
- gutter,
- hateful,
- heartbreaking,
- heartrending,
- heinous,
- hopeless,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- horrifying,
- humiliating,
- humiliative,
- infamous,
- infra dig,
- infra indignitatem,
- intolerable,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- oppressive,
- opprobrious,
- outrageous,
- overwhelming,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poignant,
- rank,
- regrettable,
- reprehensible,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- serious,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- sharp,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sickening,
- sordid,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- squalid,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- touching,
- tragic,
- troubling,
- unbearable,
- unbecoming,
- unclean,
- uncomfortable,
- unfortunate,
- unworthy of one,
- upsetting,
- vile,
- villainous,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched
- about,
- abutting,
- adjoining,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- against,
- anent,
- apropos of,
- as for,
- as regards,
- as respects,
- as to,
- attouchement,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- bordering,
- borrowing,
- brush,
- brushing,
- caress,
- caressing,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- compassionate,
- concerning,
- contact,
- contacting,
- conterminous,
- contiguous,
- contingence,
- contingent,
- debt,
- debtor,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- discomforting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreary,
- emotional,
- emotive,
- feeling,
- financing,
- fingering,
- friction,
- frottage,
- glance,
- glancing,
- graze,
- grazing,
- grievous,
- handling,
- heartrending,
- hire purchase,
- hitting,
- hitting-up,
- hocking,
- impingement,
- impingence,
- impingent,
- impinging,
- impressive,
- in connection with,
- in contact,
- in point of,
- in re,
- in reference to,
- in regard to,
- in relation to,
- in relation with,
- in respect to,
- installment buying,
- installment plan,
- joyless,
- juxtaposed,
- kiss,
- lamentable,
- manipulation,
- meeting,
- money-raising,
- mortgaging,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nudge,
- nudging,
- of,
- on,
- osculation,
- osculatory,
- overlapping,
- painful,
- palpation,
- pathetic,
- pawning,
- pertaining to,
- pertinent to,
- petting,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pledging,
- poignant,
- pressure,
- re,
- referring to,
- regarding,
- regrettable,
- relating to,
- relative to,
- respecting,
- responsive,
- rub,
- rubbing,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- sharp,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- soul-stirring,
- speaking of,
- stirring,
- stroking,
- sympathetic,
- taction,
- tangency,
- tangent,
- tangential,
- tear-jerking,
- tender,
- tentative contact,
- to,
- touch,
- uncomfortable,
- up against,
- upon,
- with regard to,
- with respect to,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
- hopeless
collapse
- (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"
- without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down"
- certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless"
- of a person unable to do something skillfully; "I'm hopeless at mathematics" related words >
- Laodicean,
- Olympian,
- Pollyanna,
- absurd,
- affording no hope,
- aloof,
- apathetic,
- bad,
- barred,
- benumbed,
- blah,
- blase,
- bleak,
- bootless,
- cheerless,
- closed-out,
- comatose,
- comfortless,
- contrary to reason,
- cureless,
- deadly,
- deficient,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- desensitized,
- despaired of,
- despairing,
- desperate,
- despondent,
- desponding,
- detached,
- disconsolate,
- discouraged,
- disinterested,
- dismal,
- done for,
- downcast,
- dull,
- dying,
- excluded,
- expiring,
- facing death,
- fatal,
- forlorn,
- funereal,
- futile,
- given up,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- going,
- gone,
- grim,
- heartless,
- hebetudinous,
- hoper,
- immedicable,
- impossible,
- impracticable,
- in a stupor,
- in articulo mortis,
- in despair,
- in extremis,
- inadequate,
- incapable of life,
- incompetent,
- inconceivable,
- inconsolable,
- incorrigible,
- incurable,
- indifferent,
- inept,
- inferior,
- insoluble,
- insouciant,
- irredeemable,
- irremediable,
- irreparable,
- irretrievable,
- languid,
- lethal,
- lethargic,
- listless,
- logically impossible,
- lost,
- low,
- lugubrious,
- melancholy,
- miserable,
- moribund,
- morose,
- near death,
- nonchalant,
- nonviable,
- not possible,
- numb,
- numbed,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- passive,
- phlegmatic,
- pluckless,
- pointless,
- poor,
- preposterous,
- prohibited,
- resigned,
- ridiculous,
- ruled-out,
- sad,
- self-contradictory,
- sinking,
- slack,
- slipping,
- slipping away,
- sluggish,
- soporific,
- sorrowful,
- spiritless,
- spunkless,
- stoic,
- stupefied,
- supine,
- terminal,
- torpid,
- unavailing,
- uncaring,
- unconcerned,
- uncorrectable,
- unfit,
- unhappy,
- unhopeful,
- unimaginable,
- uninterested,
- unqualified,
- unthinkable,
- unworkable,
- useless,
- vain,
- withdrawn,
- without hope,
- woebegone,
- worthless,
- wretched
- Jeremianic,
- abandoned,
- acute,
- amok,
- animal noise,
- argute,
- awful,
- bark,
- barking,
- bawling,
- bellowing,
- bemoaning,
- berserk,
- bewailing,
- birdcall,
- birdies,
- blatant,
- blooping,
- blurping,
- call,
- carried away,
- clang,
- complaining,
- creaky,
- cry,
- crying,
- deadly,
- delirious,
- demoniac,
- distortion,
- distracted,
- dreadful,
- ear-piercing,
- ecstatic,
- enraptured,
- faultfinding,
- fearful,
- feedback,
- feral,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- flutter,
- fluttering,
- frantic,
- frenzied,
- fretful,
- frightful,
- fulminating,
- furious,
- grieving,
- grunt,
- haggard,
- hissing,
- hog-wild,
- horrible,
- howl,
- hum,
- hysterical,
- in a transport,
- in hysterics,
- intoxicated,
- keen,
- keening,
- lamentation,
- lamenting,
- lamentive,
- lowing,
- mad,
- madding,
- maniac,
- mating call,
- moanful,
- moaning,
- motorboating,
- mournful,
- mourning,
- mugient,
- note,
- orgasmic,
- orgiastic,
- peevish,
- penetrating,
- petulant,
- piercing,
- piping,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- possessed,
- puling,
- querulous,
- rabid,
- raging,
- ramping,
- ranting,
- raving,
- ravished,
- reedy,
- roaring,
- rousing,
- rumble,
- running mad,
- scratching,
- screaky,
- screeching,
- screechy,
- sharp,
- shredding,
- shrieking,
- shrieky,
- shrill,
- sorrow,
- sorrowful,
- sorrowing,
- squeaking,
- squeaky,
- squeals,
- static,
- storming,
- stridulation,
- terrible,
- terrific,
- thin,
- thumping,
- transported,
- ululant,
- ululation,
- uncontrollable,
- violent,
- wailful,
- wailing,
- whacking,
- whimpering,
- whining,
- whiny,
- whistles,
- whistling,
- wild,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking,
- woodnote,
- woomping,
- wow,
- wowwows
- abominable,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- aggrieved,
- anguished,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- bitter,
- blameworthy,
- bleak,
- brutal,
- calamitous,
- careworn,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- contemptible,
- crushed,
- cut up,
- deep-troubled,
- dejected,
- deplorable,
- depressed,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- dire,
- discomforting,
- disconsolate,
- disgusting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- dispirited,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- dreadful,
- dreary,
- dumb with grief,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grave,
- grief-stricken,
- griefful,
- grieved,
- grievous,
- gross,
- harrowed,
- hateful,
- heart-stricken,
- heart-struck,
- heartbreaking,
- heartsick,
- heinous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- in grief,
- in the dumps,
- inconsolable,
- infamous,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- low-spirited,
- lugubrious,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- on the rack,
- outrageous,
- overcome,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- plunged in grief,
- poignant,
- racked,
- rank,
- regrettable,
- reprehensible,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- rueful,
- ruthful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- sharp,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sordid,
- sore,
- sorrowed,
- sorrowful,
- sorrowing,
- squalid,
- stricken,
- suicidal,
- tearful,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- tortured,
- touching,
- unclean,
- uncomfortable,
- unfortunate,
- unprecedented,
- vile,
- villainous,
- woebegone,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched,
- wrung
- grievous
collapse
- causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter" related words >
- abominable,
- acute,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- aggrieved,
- anguished,
- appalling,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- bitter,
- black,
- blameworthy,
- bleak,
- brutal,
- burdensome,
- calamitous,
- careworn,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- contemptible,
- damaging,
- dangerous,
- demanding,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- despicable,
- destructive,
- detestable,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- discomforting,
- disgusting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distasteful,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreadful,
- dreary,
- dumb with grief,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- fatal,
- fell,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- galling,
- grave,
- grief-stricken,
- griefful,
- grieved,
- gross,
- harmful,
- hateful,
- heartbreaking,
- heartrending,
- heavy,
- heinous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- hurtful,
- in grief,
- infamous,
- intolerable,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- lugubrious,
- major,
- monstrous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- oppressive,
- outrageous,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- plunged in grief,
- poignant,
- rank,
- regrettable,
- reprehensible,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- rueful,
- ruinous,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- serious,
- severe,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- sharp,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sordid,
- sore,
- sorrowed,
- sorrowful,
- sorrowing,
- squalid,
- superincumbent,
- taxing,
- tearful,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- touching,
- tough,
- tragic,
- ugly,
- unbearable,
- unclean,
- uncomfortable,
- unfortunate,
- unpalatable,
- vile,
- villainous,
- weighty,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wounding,
- wreckful,
- wretched
- gloomy
collapse
- characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood" related words >
- Acheronian,
- Acherontic,
- Cassandra-like,
- Cassandran,
- Cassandrian,
- Cimmerian,
- Stygian,
- acheronian,
- acherontic,
- apocalyptic,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- black,
- bleak,
- blue,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- caliginous,
- castellatus,
- cheerless,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- cloud-flecked,
- clouded,
- cloudy,
- cold,
- crabbed,
- crestfallen,
- cumuliform,
- cumulous,
- cynical,
- dark,
- dark and gloomy,
- defeatist,
- dejected,
- depressant,
- depressed,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- despairing,
- despondent,
- dim,
- dire,
- dirty,
- disconsolate,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismal,
- dispirited,
- dispiriting,
- distressed,
- doleful,
- doomful,
- dour,
- down,
- downbeat,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- drab,
- drear,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dull,
- dun,
- dusky,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- fateful,
- foreboding,
- forlorn,
- funebrial,
- funereal,
- gloomful,
- glooming,
- glum,
- grave,
- gray,
- grim,
- heavy,
- ill,
- ill-boding,
- ill-fated,
- ill-lighted,
- ill-lit,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- in the doldrums,
- inauspicious,
- inky,
- joyless,
- lenticularis,
- lowering,
- lugubrious,
- mammatus,
- melancholy,
- menacing,
- mirthless,
- miserable,
- moody,
- morose,
- murky,
- muzzy,
- nebulous,
- negative,
- negativistic,
- nihilistic,
- nimbose,
- nubilous,
- obscure,
- of evil portent,
- ominous,
- oppressed,
- oppressive,
- overcast,
- overclouded,
- pessimist,
- pessimistic,
- portending,
- portentous,
- sad,
- saturnine,
- shaded,
- shadowy,
- shady,
- sinister,
- solemn,
- somber,
- sombrous,
- sorrowful,
- squally,
- stormy,
- stratiform,
- stratous,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- surly,
- tenebrous,
- threatening,
- thunderheaded,
- triste,
- ugly,
- uncheerful,
- unfavorable,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unilluminated,
- unlucky,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- untoward,
- weariful,
- wearisome,
- weary,
- woebegone
- poignant
collapse
- keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; "poignant anxiety" related words >
- absorbing,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- acute,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- agitating,
- agonizing,
- asperous,
- astringent,
- atrocious,
- barbed,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- blue,
- caustic,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- corrosive,
- cramping,
- cruel,
- cutting,
- deep,
- deep-felt,
- deepgoing,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- disastrous,
- discomforting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- double-edged,
- dramatic,
- dreary,
- driving,
- earnest,
- edged,
- effective,
- emotional,
- escharotic,
- excruciating,
- exquisite,
- extreme,
- fierce,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- gnawing,
- grave,
- grievous,
- griping,
- gutsy,
- hard,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- heartfelt,
- homefelt,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- imperative,
- impressive,
- incisive,
- indelible,
- intense,
- irritating,
- joyless,
- keen,
- lamentable,
- lively,
- melancholy,
- miserable,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nervous,
- nose-tickling,
- painful,
- paroxysmal,
- pathetic,
- penetrating,
- peppery,
- peppy,
- perturbing,
- pervading,
- piercing,
- piquant,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pointed,
- powerful,
- profound,
- punchy,
- pungent,
- racking,
- racy,
- regrettable,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- sarcastic,
- sardonic,
- scathing,
- sensational,
- severe,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- sincere,
- sinewed,
- sinewy,
- slashing,
- snappy,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- sour,
- sparkling,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spicy,
- spirited,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- stirring,
- strident,
- striking,
- stringent,
- strong,
- tart,
- telling,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- touching,
- tragic,
- trenchant,
- uncomfortable,
- upsetting,
- vehement,
- vigorous,
- violent,
- virulent,
- vital,
- vitriolic,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched,
- zesty
- miserable
collapse
- characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
- very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" related words >
- abject,
- abominable,
- adverse,
- afflicted,
- antagonistic,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- bad,
- base,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- cheap,
- cheerless,
- cheesy,
- common,
- conflicting,
- contemptible,
- contrary,
- counter,
- counteractive,
- crummy,
- crushed,
- cut up,
- debased,
- deep-troubled,
- degraded,
- dejected,
- deplorable,
- depraved,
- depressed,
- desolate,
- despairing,
- desperate,
- despicable,
- despondent,
- detrimental,
- difficult,
- dirty,
- disconsolate,
- discontented,
- disgraceful,
- disgusting,
- dismal,
- doleful,
- dolorous,
- downhearted,
- execrable,
- flagrant,
- forlorn,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- gaudy,
- gimcracky,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- grave,
- grim,
- gross,
- hard,
- harmful,
- heart-stricken,
- heart-struck,
- heartbroken,
- heartsick,
- heinous,
- hopeless,
- hostile,
- humorless,
- in bad humor,
- in opposition,
- inadequate,
- inclement,
- inconvenient,
- infestive,
- inimical,
- joyless,
- lachrymose,
- lamentable,
- little,
- lousy,
- low,
- low-down,
- low-spirited,
- lumpen,
- mangy,
- mean,
- measly,
- melancholy,
- meretricious,
- mirthless,
- monstrous,
- mournful,
- nefarious,
- not easy,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- out of humor,
- out of sorts,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- petty,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pleasureless,
- poky,
- poor,
- rank,
- reptilian,
- rigorous,
- rotten,
- rubbishy,
- rueful,
- ruthful,
- sad,
- scabby,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- shoddy,
- sinister,
- small,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- sorryish,
- squalid,
- stressful,
- stricken,
- suicidal,
- tearful,
- terrible,
- trashy,
- troublesome,
- troublous,
- trumpery,
- trying,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- uncheerful,
- uncheery,
- unfavorable,
- unhappy,
- unjoyful,
- unmentionable,
- unmirthful,
- unpleasant,
- unsmiling,
- untoward,
- unworthy,
- valueless,
- vile,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worthless,
- wretched
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