Main entry: gloomy, grim, sorry, dark, drab, drear, dreary, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, blue
Definition: causing dejection
Usage: a blue day; the dark days of the war; a week of rainy depressing weather; a disconsolate winter landscape; the first dismal dispiriting days of November; a dark gloomy day; grim rainy weather
Main entry: deplorable, distressing, pitiful, lamentable, sorry, sad
Definition: bad; unfortunate
Usage: my finances were in a deplorable state; a lamentable decision; her clothes were in sad shape; a sorry state of affairs
Main entry: regretful, bad, sorry
Definition: feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
Usage: felt regretful over his vanished youth; regretful over mistakes she had made; he felt bad about breaking the vase
Main entry: sorry, no-account, no-count, no-good, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless
Definition: without merit
Usage: a sorry horse; a sorry excuse; a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick; the car was a no-good piece of junk