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Feeling grief, distress or sorrow

Causing grief, distress or sorrow

Suggestive or expressive of sorrow, distress or regret

Feeling regret or penitence

Extremely morbid or somber, typically suggestive of death or the grave

Depressingly dull and bleak or repetitive

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Adjective

Feeling grief, distress or sorrow

down in the mouth

singing the blues

down in the dumps

in the doldrums

sick as a parrot

heavy with grief

overcome with sorrow

discombobulated

discountenanced

deeply saddened

down-in-the-mouth

extremely saddened

sorry for yourself

racked with suffering

racked with pain

prostrate with grief

unable to be comforted

unable to be consoled

beside oneself with grief

conscience-stricken

deeply regretful

with a long face

looking as if one had lost a pound and found a penny

having the blahs

having blue devils

on the verge of tears

in floods of tears

with tears in your eyes

emotionally defeated

in high dudgeon

at sixes and sevens

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“She saw his sorrowful mother lying on the ground, trembling as though she was dying, and John and her sisters were beside her and comforting her.”

Adjective

Causing grief, distress or sorrow

unfavourable^UK

heart-wrenching

demoralising^UK

demoralizing^US

disadvantageous

poverty-stricken

full of hardship

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“There is certainly more to discover about this whole ugly, sorrowful story.”

Adjective

Suggestive or expressive of sorrow, distress or regret

down in the mouth

down in the dumps

deeply saddened

deeply regretful

heavy with grief

racked with pain

racked with suffering

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“As if in mournful counterpoint to his own grief, the boy heard the clear, sorrowful notes of an alto sax keening and sobbing out a blues melody.”

Adjective

Feeling regret or penitence

“In a relationship, this might mean feeling sorrowful for having hurt someone, really wanting to make up for it, and then apologizing in a sincere and loving way.”

Adjective

Extremely morbid or somber, typically suggestive of death or the grave

down in the dumps

down in the mouth

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“The shade of corruption laid a sorrowful pall over the land, affecting all in its wake.”

Adjective

Depressingly dull and bleak or repetitive

run-of-the-mill

soul-destroying

dull as dishwater

undistinguished

dark-colored^US

middle-of-the-road

lacking variety

nothing to write home about

no great shakes

dark-coloured^UK

dull as ditchwater

non-stimulating

lacking variation

common or garden

lacking excitement

lacking interest

lacking vitality

unobjectionable

run of the mill

unexceptionable

without variety

flat as pancake

puts one to sleep

lacking personality

lacking charisma

straightforward

behind the times

demoralizing^US

demoralising^UK

two-dimensional

run-of-the-mine

neither one thing nor the other

nothing special

undemonstrative

nothing to get excited about

devoid of emotion

inconsequential

fair-to-middling

fair to middling

unprepossessing

unsophisticated

lacking in vitality

devoid of feeling

standardized^US

standardised^UK

conventionalized

blending into the background

uncommunicative

run-of-the mill

not amounting to much

incomprehensible

middle of the road

unextraordinary

anesthetized^US

par for the course

nothing out of the ordinary

anaesthetised^UK

in the doldrums

of little consequence

of little importance

of no consequence

not worth mentioning

of no importance

of no great concern

readily available

widely available

uncompassionate

desensitized^US

along for the ride

desensitised^UK

pure and simple

lacking originality

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