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• deplorable, disappointing

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• adj.

  • all (adjective)

  • sad.

  • bad (adjective)

  • bottom out,
  • cruddy,
  • the pits,
  • not good,
  • up set,
  • grody,
  • godawful.

  • black (adjective)

  • foreboding,
  • sombrer,
  • threatening,
  • depressive,
  • horrible,
  • sombre,
  • ominous,
  • sinister.

  • bleak (adjective)

  • lonely,
  • hopeless,
  • comfortless,
  • harsh,
  • grim,
  • hard.

  • brokenhearted (adjective)

  • inconsolable.

  • cheerless (adjective)

  • blue,
  • woeful,
  • sullen,
  • dull,
  • austere,
  • drab,
  • tenebrific,
  • jarring,
  • uncomfortable,
  • desolate,
  • wintry,
  • mopey.

  • contemptible (adjective)

  • beggarly,
  • outcast,
  • hateful,
  • scummy,
  • vile,
  • disgusting,
  • heel,
  • ignoble,
  • crass,
  • unworthy,
  • abhorrent,
  • odious,
  • lowest,
  • mean,
  • paltry,
  • sordid,
  • ignominious,
  • abject,
  • detestable,
  • worthless,
  • degenerate,
  • base,
  • dirty.

  • crestfallen (adjective)

  • in a funk,
  • dispirited,
  • ass in a sling,
  • cast down,
  • singing the blues,
  • taken down,
  • down in the dumps,
  • down in dumps,
  • chapfallen,
  • disheartened.

  • crying (adjective)

  • lachrymose.

  • dejected (adjective)

  • despondent,
  • glum,
  • contemplative,
  • shot down,
  • pensive,
  • Mopish,
  • melancholy,
  • atrabilious,
  • all torn up,
  • broody,
  • overcome,
  • anxious,
  • bummed out,
  • gloomy,
  • in the pits,
  • morose.

  • demoralized (adjective)

  • unnerved,
  • de-moralized,
  • de moralized,
  • more unnerved,
  • un-nerved,
  • un nerved,
  • most unnerved.

  • deplorable (adjective)

  • scandalous,
  • opprobrious.

  • depressed (adjective)

  • in a blue funk,
  • dysphoric,
  • low,
  • unhappy,
  • tristful,
  • melancholic,
  • torn up,
  • in the toilet,
  • on a downer,
  • cast-down,
  • in pain,
  • down and out,
  • mouth.

  • depressing (adjective)

  • most saddening,
  • most daunting,
  • de pressing,
  • more saddening,
  • de-pressing,
  • more daunting.

  • despairing (adjective)

  • at end one’s rope,
  • at end rope,
  • most no-win,
  • at end of one rope,
  • at end of ones rope,
  • most sunk,
  • more no-win,
  • more no win,
  • more sunk,
  • more nowin,
  • in soup,
  • most nowin,
  • at end ones rope,
  • nowin,
  • at end one rope,
  • grief stricken,
  • no win,
  • most no win,
  • not prayer,
  • more strabilious,
  • cant win,
  • most strabilious.

  • desperate (adjective)

  • more desponding,
  • more irretrievable,
  • more no chance,
  • more no-chance,
  • more no-way,
  • most no-chance,
  • running out time,
  • most goner,
  • more goner,
  • most irrecoverable,
  • most irretrievable,
  • most noway,
  • back wall,
  • nochance,
  • back the wall,
  • most no way,
  • most no-way,
  • most desponding,
  • more nochance,
  • most no chance,
  • more no way,
  • more noway,
  • more irrecoverable,
  • most nochance,
  • up creek,
  • no-chance,
  • back to wall.

  • despondent (adjective)

  • more bummed out,
  • more bummedout,
  • more grieving,
  • more mourning,
  • most bummedout,
  • most mourning,
  • most bummed out,
  • most bummed-out,
  • more bummed-out,
  • most grieving,
  • bummedout.

  • disappointed (adjective)

  • crestfallen.

  • disconsolate (adjective)

  • dis-tressed,
  • more torn up,
  • more torn-up,
  • more tornup,
  • most torn-up,
  • tornup,
  • most crushed,
  • most torn up,
  • more crushed,
  • most tornup,
  • dis tressed.

  • discouraged (adjective)

  • dis mayed,
  • caved in,
  • more beatdown,
  • more down-in-mouth,
  • more beat-down,
  • gone pieces,
  • most down in mouth,
  • more beat down,
  • most cavedin,
  • most beatdown,
  • more deterred,
  • more daunted,
  • more cavedin,
  • cavedin,
  • most come apart,
  • most daunted,
  • most deterred,
  • beatdown,
  • comeapart,
  • more comeapart,
  • more caved in,
  • most beat down,
  • more down in mouth,
  • most dismayed,
  • more dismayed,
  • most down-in-mouth,
  • most caved in,
  • most caved-in,
  • dis-mayed,
  • most beat-down,
  • more come-apart,
  • more caved-in,
  • more come apart,
  • lost momentum,
  • most come-apart,
  • most comeapart.

  • dismal (adjective)

  • over cast,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • in auspicious,
  • inauspicious,
  • un fortunate,
  • over-cast,
  • in-auspicious,
  • un-fortunate,
  • overcast,
  • dis agreeable.

  • dispiriting (adjective)

  • de-moralizing,
  • de moralizing.

  • doleful (adjective)

  • doleful,
  • Dirgeful,
  • Dolent.

  • dolorous (adjective)

  • more dolesome,
  • most dolesome,
  • most heart-rending,
  • heart rending,
  • more heart-rending,
  • most heart rending,
  • more dolorific,
  • most dolorific,
  • more heart rending.

  • downcast (adjective)

  • down-in-the-mouth.

  • down in the mouth (adjective)

  • down in mouth,
  • down the mouth,
  • low in spirits,
  • down mouth,
  • low spirits.

  • dreary (adjective)

  • un interesting,
  • un-eventful,
  • un-interesting,
  • un eventful.

  • elegiac (adjective)

  • threnodial,
  • more threnodial,
  • most threnodial.

  • frail (adjective)

  • in substantial,
  • wimpiest,
  • more shatterable,
  • un-soundest,
  • most fracturable,
  • wishywashy,
  • wimpier,
  • most shattery,
  • un substantial,
  • most shatterable,
  • un sounder,
  • un-sounder,
  • more shattery,
  • in-substantial,
  • in-firmer,
  • wishy-washy,
  • wishy washy,
  • un-substantial,
  • un-sound,
  • un sound,
  • more fracturable,
  • in firmer,
  • in-firmest,
  • in firmest.

  • funereal (adjective)

  • dirgelike.

  • gloomy (adjective)

  • more moping,
  • most moping,
  • most crabbed,
  • most mirthless,
  • more mirthless.

  • grave (adjective)

  • grimfaced,
  • more grim faced,
  • most longfaced,
  • most grim faced,
  • un-smiling,
  • ponderous,
  • most long-faced,
  • more muted,
  • more long faced,
  • more unsmiling,
  • most grim-faced,
  • more grimfaced,
  • un smiling,
  • more longfaced,
  • most unsmiling,
  • most grimfaced,
  • most muted,
  • longfaced,
  • grim faced,
  • more long-faced,
  • unsmiling,
  • long faced,
  • most long faced,
  • more grim-faced,
  • nononsense.

  • grievous (adjective)

  • dis quieting,
  • most afflicting,
  • up-setting,
  • egregious,
  • more wounding,
  • up setting,
  • dis-quieting,
  • most wounding,
  • more afflicting.

  • heartbroken (adjective)

  • most heartsore,
  • more heartsore.

  • heartrending (adjective)

  • heartsickening.

  • heavy (adjective)

  • sodden.

  • hopeless (adjective)

  • helpless,
  • past hope,
  • beyond recall,
  • desperate,
  • irredeemable,
  • unmitigable,
  • irremediable,
  • unachievable.

  • hurt (adjective)

  • Mauled,
  • more bruised,
  • more mauled,
  • most bruised,
  • most contused,
  • most marred,
  • most mauled,
  • most buffeted,
  • more suffering,
  • more scratched,
  • more tortured,
  • struck,
  • more nicked,
  • dis-figured,
  • more hit,
  • most agonized,
  • more lacerated,
  • more marred,
  • more warped,
  • more scarred,
  • more scraped,
  • most scarred,
  • pained,
  • shookest,
  • more disfigured,
  • most tortured,
  • wounded,
  • most battered,
  • more grazed,
  • more contused,
  • more cut,
  • most hit,
  • warped,
  • most grazed,
  • more shot,
  • more piqued,
  • more buffeted,
  • most cut,
  • more agonized,
  • dis figured,
  • more battered,
  • most suffering,
  • most nicked,
  • shooker,
  • most piqued,
  • most warped,
  • most scraped,
  • miffed,
  • most disfigured,
  • most lacerated,
  • most shot,
  • most scratched.

  • inconsolable (adjective)

  • unconsolable.

  • inferior (adjective)

  • two bit,
  • tawdry,
  • poorer,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • low-rent,
  • low-grade,
  • most inferior,
  • low-quality,
  • junker,
  • middling.

  • joyless (adjective)

  • have blahs,
  • more depressant,
  • most depressant.

  • lamentable (adjective)

  • god awful,
  • more god-awful,
  • more god awful,
  • most god awful,
  • un-favorable,
  • un favorable,
  • most god-awful.

  • lamenting (adjective)

  • elegiac,
  • more regretting,
  • most regretting.

  • languishing (adjective)

  • most pining,
  • more pining.

  • low (adjective)

  • lower.

  • low-grade (adjective)

  • lowgrade,
  • low grade.

  • low-quality (adjective)

  • lowquality.

  • lugubrious (adjective)

  • Woful.

  • miserable (adjective)

  • dis contented,
  • poverty stricken,
  • most anguished,
  • more racked,
  • Racked,
  • more anguished,
  • most discontented,
  • more tormented,
  • most racked,
  • dis-contented,
  • most tormented,
  • povertystricken.

  • moody (adjective)

  • ill tempered,
  • in huff,
  • more ill humored,
  • most ill humored,
  • illtempered,
  • most illhumored,
  • more illhumored,
  • more splenetic,
  • most splenetic,
  • introspective,
  • short tempered,
  • ill-humored,
  • most ill-humored,
  • shorttempered,
  • more ill-humored,
  • out sorts,
  • ill humored,
  • illhumored,
  • splenetic.

  • morose (adjective)

  • having blahs,
  • more perversive,
  • most perversive.

  • mournful (adjective)

  • be reft,
  • be-reft,
  • full sorrow.

  • murky (adjective)

  • dunest,
  • dusk,
  • dusker,
  • most glowering,
  • more darkened,
  • more glowering,
  • most darkened,
  • most nubilous,
  • mis-tier,
  • un cleanest,
  • un-cleaner,
  • un clean,
  • mis tier,
  • duskest,
  • un-cleanest,
  • duner,
  • more nubilous,
  • un cleaner.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)

  • dismal,
  • unsavory,
  • heavy,
  • downhearted,
  • no-win,
  • Despisable,
  • Heeler,
  • self-reproachful,
  • dun,
  • goner,
  • running out of time,
  • dejected,
  • at end of one’s rope,
  • in a huff,
  • distressing,
  • Commiserable,
  • having blue devils,
  • currish,
  • contused,
  • sorrowful,
  • back to the wall,
  • grim-faced,
  • heartrending,
  • come apart,
  • torn-up,
  • Languishing,
  • have the blahs,
  • no-way,
  • Dolorific,
  • scummier,
  • swinish,
  • draggy,
  • low-down,
  • mirthless,
  • sorry,
  • low quality,
  • grievous,
  • contemptible,
  • miserable,
  • discouraged,
  • perversive,
  • no way,
  • fatalistic,
  • heart-rending,
  • heartsore,
  • Drearisome,
  • irrecoverable,
  • in the doldrums,
  • inferior,
  • murky,
  • in low spirits,
  • fracturable,
  • lamenting,
  • no chance,
  • guilt-ridden,
  • demoralized,
  • poignant,
  • in blue funk,
  • in mourning,
  • come-apart,
  • not a prayer,
  • Shattery,
  • drear,
  • no nonsense,
  • low key,
  • in bad mood,
  • grave,
  • lamentable,
  • downcast,
  • can’t win,
  • cold sober,
  • in the soup,
  • full of sorrow,
  • mournful,
  • piteous,
  • subdued,
  • Nubilous,
  • busted up,
  • in sorrow,
  • dreary,
  • scurvy,
  • in doldrums,
  • saturnine,
  • down,
  • dead duck,
  • plaintive,
  • pessimistic,
  • depressed,
  • beefing,
  • down in the mouth,
  • having the blahs,
  • deplorable,
  • hurt,
  • depressing,
  • grousing,
  • sick at heart,
  • beat down,
  • lowdown,
  • in despair,
  • griefstricken,
  • Dolesome,
  • attritional,
  • shatterable,
  • frail,
  • Noway,
  • long-faced,
  • regrettable,
  • in a bad mood,
  • god-awful,
  • joyless,
  • up against it,
  • strictly business,
  • tragic,
  • weeping,
  • despairing,
  • anguished,
  • heavyhearted,
  • pitiful,
  • strabilious,
  • lugubrious,
  • up the creek,
  • down-in-mouth,
  • out of spirits,
  • bummed-out,
  • caved-in,
  • cheerless,
  • wistful,
  • wimpy,
  • irretrievable,
  • moody,
  • gone to pieces,
  • unpromising,
  • bad,
  • heartbroken,
  • at end of rope,
  • remorseful,
  • in firm,
  • dolorous,
  • beat-down,
  • disconsolate.

  • penitential (adjective)

  • penitential.

  • pessimistic (adjective)

  • dis-trustful,
  • re-signed,
  • re signed,
  • dis trustful,
  • mis anthropic,
  • most fatalistic,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • more fatalistic.

  • piteous (adjective)

  • most commiserable,
  • more imploring,
  • more supplicating,
  • more beseeching,
  • most imploring,
  • most entreating,
  • most beseeching,
  • most supplicating,
  • more commiserable,
  • more entreating.

  • pitiful (adjective)

  • pitiable,
  • rueful.

  • plaintive (adjective)

  • more beefing,
  • most beefing,
  • most wailing,
  • wailing,
  • more wailing,
  • most grousing,
  • more bellyaching,
  • most bellyaching,
  • more grousing.

  • poignant (adjective)

  • in tense,
  • in-tense,
  • in tenser,
  • in-tenser,
  • most agitating,
  • more agitating,
  • in-tensest.

  • regrettable (adjective)

  • dis appointing,
  • dis-appointing,
  • illadvised.

  • remorseful (adjective)

  • selfreproachful,
  • most attritional,
  • most self-reproachful,
  • more guiltridden,
  • most chastened,
  • guiltridden,
  • more self reproachful,
  • more guilt-ridden,
  • more chastened,
  • more selfreproachful,
  • most guilt ridden,
  • guilt ridden,
  • more guilt ridden,
  • most guilt-ridden,
  • more self-reproachful,
  • most selfreproachful,
  • most guiltridden,
  • self reproachful,
  • most self reproachful,
  • more attritional.

  • ruthful (adjective)

  • ruthful.

  • sad (adjective)

  • disastrous,
  • hapless,
  • wretched,
  • bereaved,
  • calamitous,
  • tear-jerking,
  • serious,
  • saddening,
  • troubled,
  • shabby,
  • pathetic,
  • Dejecting,
  • forlorn,
  • in the dumps,
  • dark,
  • low-spirited,
  • out of sorts,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • in grief,
  • tearful,
  • hurting,
  • Discomposing.

  • second-class (adjective)

  • second-class.

  • sorrowful (adjective)

  • sick heart.

  • sorry (adjective)

  • un-important.

  • subdued (adjective)

  • in-obtrusive,
  • more tempered,
  • lowkey,
  • un-obtrusive,
  • most softened,
  • re strained,
  • out spirits,
  • more softened,
  • un obtrusive,
  • most tempered,
  • tempered,
  • re-pressed,
  • re pressed,
  • more repressed,
  • most moderated,
  • re-strained,
  • in obtrusive,
  • shaded,
  • most repressed,
  • sub missive,
  • more moderated.

  • tearful (adjective)

  • blubbery,
  • teary,
  • in tears.

  • tragic (adjective)

  • illstarred,
  • most crushing,
  • ill starred,
  • more crushing,
  • ill-starred.

  • unsavory (adjective)

  • no good.

  • wistful (adjective)

  • most yearning,
  • more yearning.

• n.

  •
  • discordant,
  • atonal,
  • acoustic,
  • classical,
  • disquieting,
  • funereal,
  • harmonic,
  • funky,
  • oppressive,
  • bluesy,
  • bass,
  • harmonious,
  • dire,
  • flat,
  • moving.
  •
  • flawed,
  • born,
  • classy,
  • adaptive,
  • Clingy,
  • flexible,
  • constitutionally,
  • badass,
  • addictive,
  • babyish.
  •
  • beriberi,
  • anorexia,
  • anthrax,
  • ague,
  • botulism,
  • blood poisoning,
  • appendicitis,
  • bronchitis,
  • altitude sickness,
  • Alzheimer’s Disease.
  •
  • humdrum,
  • mind-numbing,
  • uninteresting,
  • boring,
  • tedious,
  • uninspired,
  • trivial,
  • unexciting.

  • bittersweet (noun)

  • bittersweet.

  • cabin fever (noun)

  • neurosis,
  • temporary insanity,
  • restlessness,
  • Seasonal Affective Disorder,
  • distress.

  • inferior (noun)

  • cheap,
  • common,
  • second class.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)

  • melancholia,
  • climbing the walls,
  • seasonal depression,
  • claustrophobia,
  • cabin fever,
  • mild depression,
  • Melancholias,
  • winter blues,
  • SADS.

  • sad (noun)

  • tragicomic,
  • tragicomical,
  • yearning,
  • tragical.

  • seasonal affective disorder (noun)

  • seasonal depressions,
  • mild depressions.

• v.

  • depressing (verb)

  • chill.

  • displeased (verb)

  • disappointed.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • discouraging,
  • shattering,
  • dismayed,
  • hangdog,
  • relieved,
  • grief-stricken,
  • sepulchral,
  • harassed,
  • losing,
  • gut-wrenching,
  • Grieved,
  • soul-destroying,
  • devastated,
  • Broken-hearted,
  • funny,
  • unfulfilled,
  • disheartening,
  • affecting,
  • lovelorn,
  • shattered,
  • unquiet,
  • upsetting,
  • deflated,
  • melting,
  • grumpy,
  • bleak,
  • homesick,
  • choked up,
  • heartsick,
  • screwed up,
  • dispiriting.
  •
  • somber,
  • sentimental,
  • woefully,
  • flattened,
  • regretfully,
  • claustrophobic,
  • sulky,
  • painful,
  • agonizing,
  • unfortunate,
  • oppressed,
  • suicidal,
  • cut-up,
  • touching.
  •
  • downbeat,
  • injured,
  • sadly,
  • distressed.
  •
  • black,
  • cranky,
  • terrible,
  • bitter.

  • anxious

  • careworn.

  • cheerless

  • heartbreaking.

  • despondent

  • woebegone,
  • brokenhearted.

  • disheartened

  • broken.

  • forlorn

  • heavy-hearted.

  • in low spirits

  • spiritless.

  • Other relevant words:

  • colour,
  • apple,
  • dough,
  • gecko,
  • song,
  • spectacle,
  • duty,
  • coward,
  • business,
  • glory,
  • picture,
  • failure,
  • bread,
  • sack,
  • flirt,
  • excuse,
  • truth,
  • floppers,
  • hair,
  • drunkard,
  • misfortune,
  • mistake,
  • look,
  • demise,
  • face,
  • iron,
  • night,
  • dog,
  • trash,
  • case,
  • disappointment,
  • true,
  • rogue,
  • flycatcher,
  • rip,
  • event,
  • attempt,
  • incident.

  • pathological

  • morbid.

  • sorry

  • badly.

  • unhappy

  • discontented.

How to use «Sad» in context?

Paraphrases for Sad:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    sorrowful.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    saddening.
  • Verb, past participle
    Saddened.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    agonizing, appalling, boring, desperate, despicable, difficult, dire, disastrous, discouraging, disgusting, distressed, dreadful, dubious, frustrating, grim, harsh, inconvenient, infamous, mad, nasty, poignant, sinister, sobering, stark, unsatisfactory, sob.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Ods, Tas, Cas, DCS, DDCS.
  • Verb, past participle
    broken, depressed.
  • Verb, base form
    Triste.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    annoying, awful, bitter, bleak, deplorable, depressed, depressing, disagreeable, disappointed, disappointing, disgraceful, disheartening, dismal, distressing, disturbing, dreary, dull, embarrassing, gloomy, grievous, hapless, heartbroken, lonely, miserable, painful, regretful, regrettable, shameful, sombre, tedious, terrible, tragic, ugly, uncomfortable, unhappy, unpleasant, woeful, Grieved, Saddened.
  • Adverb
    sadly.
  • Verb, base form
    regrettable.

Homophones for Sad:

• scathe, seeded, sated, sadhe, shakeout, scat, statue, ski tow, sachet, saida, scott, siesta, sash weight, stet, sex act, seaweed, sod, shut, sot, stow away, said, sita, stew, sexed, see to it, Shote, sukkoth, 1st, seated, shoat, sooth, set-to, saw set, soot, suicide, sade, seacoast, schizoid, sext, shagged, satiated, squad, sooty, sedated, saudi, sat, sou’-east, Succoth, shi’ite, saxist, ski jacket, sextette, socket, sixty, sth, steady, set, scoot, stye, statewide, squid, site, soddy, shaded, sighted, seedy, seized, stay, sea-duty, scythe, scute, swede, sextet, sized, soused, sett, seaside, sestet, swad, shot, stay away, sideway, seta, skagit, sit, sacked, sheath, shoddy, studio, sate, sekhet, swath, satie, segway ht, sagittate, sect, studded, skid, shade, sheathed, sea-coast, sack out, shout out, Sayda, soda, shutout, shouted, sagacity, scet, swathe, shahadah, skew-eyed, shoed, sixtieth, sack coat, stay at, shod, shittah, sedate, sagitta, saxegothea, steatite, sou’-west, shootout, shocked, secede, sou’west, Suss Out, statute, study, sweet tooth, soothe, sou’-sou’-west, suttee, sesotho, suggested, shadowed, she-goat, shakti, skeat, sauteed, seek out, scud, sheet, seize with teeth, side, sotho, sittidae, stowe, suited, soweto, squat, skeet, sadhu, sheathe, saddhu, stow, saute, stout, six-sided, sadat, say hey kid, sixty-two, shadowy, 41st, scout, scut, shock-headed, sixth, southey, staid, 31st, skewed, sakti, Sea god, sou’-sou’-east, shut out, Sq Yd, 101st, steed, sd, stewed, sweat, shoot, seethe, suck out, shaggy-coated, shasta, sight, saw wood, set ahead, stowaway, sewed, sit out, set out, Sioux City, steadied, see eye to eye, satiate, scid, skit, shadow, suet, sweet, scd, sty, settee, sexist, shout, swot, squeeze out, saxe-gothea, shed, seed, scottie, scot, shaheed, studied, stoat, skate, sea scout, society, swat, sweetie, seat, shad, scatty, suggest, Saccade, situate, soaked, sought, sudate, stud, sea chest, shute, sweaty, statuette, suidae, sitta, suit, suite, stead, situated, sida, sawtooth, schist, state, south, stated, 21st, shady, satiety, scythia, shiite, seth, squatty, saw-toothed, scad, shut away, shuteye, suety, succeed, suede.