Synonyms: 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
Similar words: bad
Definition: having undesirable or negative qualities
Usage: a bad report card; his sloppy appearance made a bad impression; a bad little boy; clothes in bad shape; a bad cut; bad luck; the news was very bad; the reviews were bad; the pay is bad; it was a bad light for reading; the movie was a bad choice
Synonyms: sad
Definition: experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness
Usage: feeling sad because his dog had died; Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad- Christina Rossetti
Similar words: bittersweet
Definition: tinged with sadness
Usage: a movie with a bittersweet ending
Similar words: mournful, doleful
Definition: filled with or evoking sadness
Usage: the child's doleful expression; stared with mournful eyes; mournful news
Similar words: heavyhearted
Definition: depressed
Similar words: melancholic, melancholy
Definition: characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
Usage: growing more melancholy every hour; her melancholic smile; we acquainted him with the melancholy truth
Similar words: pensive, wistful
Definition: showing pensive sadness
Usage: the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty
Similar words: tragic, tragical
Definition: very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction
Usage: a tragic face; a tragic plight; a tragic accident
Similar words: tragicomic, tragicomical
Definition: manifesting both tragic and comic aspects
Usage: the tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments- B.R.Redman
Synonyms: sad
Definition: of things that make you feel sad
Usage: sad news; she doesn't like sad movies; it was a very sad story; When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me- Christina Rossetti
Similar words: sorrowful
Definition: experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss
Usage: sorrowful widows; a sorrowful tale of death and despair; sorrowful news; even in laughter the heart is sorrowful- Proverbs 14:13