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| Main Entry: | pathetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sad, affecting |
| Synonyms: | deplorable, distressing, feeble, heartbreaking, heartrending*, inadequate, lamentable, meager, melting, miserable, moving, paltry, petty, piteous, pitiful, plaintive, poignant, poor, puny, rueful, sorry*, tender, touching, useless, woeful, worthless, wretched, commiserable, pitiable |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, useful, worthwhile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crummy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lousy |
| Synonyms: | cheap, contemptible, crappy*, inferior, miserable, pathetic, poor, rotten, second-rate, shabby, useless, worthless, grotty, sub-par, third-rate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emotional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demonstrative about feelings |
| Synonyms: | affecting, ardent, disturbed, ecstatic, enthusiastic, excitable, exciting, fanatical, feeling, fervent, fervid, fickle, fiery, heartwarming, heated, histrionic, hysterical, impassioned, impetuous, impulsive, irrational, moving, nervous, overwrought, passionate, pathetic, poignant, responsive, sensitive, sentient, sentimental, spontaneous, stirring, susceptible, temperamental, tender, thrilling, touching, warm, zealous, emotive, falling apart, hot-blooded, roused, stirred, tear-jerking |
| Notes: | emotional means 'affected by an emotion' while emotive means 'drawing out or evoking emotion' |
| Antonyms: | physical |
| Main Entry: | expressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | telling, revealing |
| Synonyms: | alive, articulate, artistic, brilliant, colorful, demonstrative, dramatic, eloquent, emphatic, energetic, forcible, graphic, indicative, ingenious, lively, masterly, meaningful, mobile, moving, passionate, pathetic, picturesque, poignant, pointed, pregnant, representative, responsive, showy, significant, silver-tongued*, spirited, stimulating, stirring, striking, strong, suggestive, sympathetic, tender, thoughtful, touching, understanding, vivid, warm, allusive, pictorial, revelatory |
| Antonyms: | expressionless, inexpressive, passive, undemonstrative |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forlorn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless, inconsolable |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, alone, bereft, blue*, cheerless, cynical, defenseless, depressed, deserted, desolate, despairing, desperate, despondent, destitute, destroyed, disconsolate, dragging*, forgotten, forsaken, friendless, fruitless, futile, godforsaken*, helpless, homeless, lonely, lonesome, lost, miserable, oppressed, pathetic, pessimistic, pitiful, solitary, tragic, unhappy, vain, woebegone, wretched, comfortless, down and out, in the dumps, pitiable, weighed down |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, hopeful, joyful, pleased, comforted, consolable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grievous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe, painful; serious |
| Synonyms: | agonizing, appalling, atrocious, calamitous, damaging, deplorable, dire, dismal, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, dreadful, egregious, flagrant, glaring, grave, harmful, heavy*, heinous, hurtful, injurious, intolerable, lamentable, monstrous, mournful, offensive, onerous, oppressive, outrageous, pathetic, pitiful, sad, shameful, sharp, shocking, sorrowful, taxing, tough, tragic, troublesome, unbearable, villainous, weighty*, afflicting, heart-rending, upsetting, wounding |
| Antonyms: | good, harmless, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | measly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | skimpy |
| Synonyms: | beggarly, contemptible, insignificant, meager, mean, miserable, miserly, niggling*, paltry, pathetic, petty, picayune, piddling*, pitiful, poor, puny, scanty, stingy, trifling, trivial, ungenerous, unimportant, valueless, worthless |
| Antonyms: | abundant, plenty, proficient, satisfactory, sufficient |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pitiful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in bad shape; poor |
| Synonyms: | abject, affecting, afflicted, base, beggarly, cheap, cheerless, compassionate, contemptible, deplorable, despicable, dismal, distressed, distressing, grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending, inadequate, insignificant, joyless, lamentable, low, mean, miserable, mournful, moving, paltry, pathetic, piteous, sad, shabby, sorrowful, sorry, stirring, suffering, tearful, touching, vile, woeful, worthless, wretched, arousing, comfortless, commiserative, pitiable, scurvy |
| Antonyms: | excellent, happy, superb, superior, wonderful, worthwhile |
| Main Entry: | plaintive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pathetic, woebegone |
| Synonyms: | cantankerous, crabby*, cranky*, disconsolate, doleful, grief-stricken, grievous, grumpy*, heartrending, lamenting, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, out of sorts*, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, rueful, sad, sorrowful, wistful, woeful, beefing, bellyaching, grousing, saddening, wailing |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sentimental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emotional, romantic |
| Synonyms: | affected, affectionate, corny*, demonstrative, dewy-eyed, dreamy, effusive, gushing, idealistic, impressionable, inane, insipid, jejune, languishing, loving, maudlin, mushy*, nostalgic, overacted, passionate, pathetic, saccharine*, sappy*, silly, sloppy*, soapy, soft, softhearted*, sugary*, sweet, tearful, tender, touching, vapid, visionary, weepy, gushy, lovey-dovey, moonstruck, overemotional, rosewater, schmaltzy, simpering, slushy, syrupy, tear-jerking |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, pragmatic, unemotional, hard-hearted, unromantic, unsentimental |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tearful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crying, very upset |
| Synonyms: | distressed, dolorous, lachrymose, lamentable, lamenting, moist, mournful, pathetic, pitiful, poignant, sad, sorrowful, watery, weeping, weepy, wet, woeful, bawling, blubbering, blubbery, in tears, pitiable, sniveling, sobbing, teary, whimpering |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy |
| Main Entry: | tragic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | catastrophic, very bad |
| Synonyms: | adverse, appalling, awful, calamitous, deadly, deathly, deplorable, desolate, destructive, dire, disastrous, doleful, dreadful, fatal, fateful, forlorn, grievous, grim, hapless, harrowing, heartbreaking, ill-fated, lamentable, miserable, mournful, painful, pathetic, pitiful, ruinous, sad, shocking, sorrowful, terrible, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched, anguished, cataclysmic, crushing, heart-rending, ill-starred, pitiable |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, blessed, good, happy, successful |
| Main Entry: | woeful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | terrible, sad |
| Synonyms: | afflicted, appalling, awful, bad, calamitous, cruel, deplorable, disappointing, disastrous, disconsolate, disgraceful, distressing, doleful, dreadful, feeble, gloomy, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, heartrending, heartsick, hopeless, inadequate, lamentable, lousy*, mean, miserable, mournful, paltry, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, plaintive, poor, rotten, shocking, sorrowful, sorry, tragic, unfortunate, unhappy, wretched, agonized, anguished, catastrophic, grieving, pitiable, racked, tortured |
| Antonyms: | glad, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wretched |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | terrible, very bad |
| Synonyms: | abject, afflicted, base, calamitous, cheap, contemptible, dejected, deplorable, depressed, despicable, disconsolate, distressed, dolorous, down, down-and-out*, downcast, faulty, flimsy, forlorn, gloomy, hapless, hopeless, inferior, low, mean, melancholy, miserable, paltry, pathetic, pitiful, poor, shabby, shameful, sordid, sorrowful, sorry, spiritless, tragic, unfortunate, unhappy, vile, weak, woebegone, woeful, worthless, bummed, hurting, in the pits, low-down*, pitiable |
| Antonyms: | good, nice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | miserable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhappy, depressed |
| Synonyms: | afflicted, ailing, brokenhearted, crestfallen, dejected, desolate, despairing, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, discontented, distressed, doleful, dolorous, down, down in the mouth*, downcast, forlorn, gloomy, heartbroken, hopeless, hurt, ill, injured, melancholy, mournful, pained, pathetic, rueful, sad, sick, sickly, sorrowful, strained, suffering, tragic, troubled, woebegone, wounded, wretched, agonized, anguished, hurting, in pain, on a downer, pitiable, racked, ruthful, tormented, tortured |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, elated, happy, joyful, merry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poignant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affecting, painful |
| Synonyms: | agonizing, bitter, distressing, disturbing, emotional, heartbreaking, heartrending, impressive, intense, moving, passionate, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, sad, sentimental, sorrowful, touching, agitating, perturbing, upsetting |
| Antonyms: | calm, numb, pleasant, soothing, unaffecting |
| Main Entry: | touching |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affecting, moving emotionally |
| Synonyms: | compassionate, heartbreaking, impressive, melting, mind-blowing*, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, poignant, responsive, sad, stirring, stunning, sympathetic, tender, wistful, emotive, heart-rending, pitiable, tear-jerking |
| Antonyms: | unmoving, unaffecting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | miserable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | destitute, shabby |
| Synonyms: | abject, bad, contemptible, deplorable, despicable, detestable, disgraceful, godforsaken, impoverished, indigent, inferior, lamentable, low, meager, mean, needy, paltry, pathetic, penniless, piteous, poor, poverty-stricken, sad, scanty, shameful, sordid, sorry, squalid, tragic, vile, worthless, wretched, pitiable, scurvy |
| Antonyms: | generous, rich, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | sad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, distressing |
| Synonyms: | bad, calamitous, dark, deplorable, depressing, disastrous, discouraging, dismal, dreary, funereal, grave, grievous, hapless, joyless, lachrymose, lamentable, lugubrious, miserable, moving, oppressive, pathetic, pitiful, poignant, regrettable, serious, shabby, sorry, tearful, tragic, unhappy, unsatisfactory, wretched, dejecting, discomposing, disheartening, dispiriting, heart-rending, melancholic, pitiable, saddening, tear-jerking, upsetting |
| Antonyms: | fortunate, great, happy, lucky |
| Main Entry: | poor |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, unhappy |
| Synonyms: | hapless, ill-fated, luckless, miserable, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, rueful, unlucky, wretched, commiserable, pitiable |
| Antonyms: | fortunate, great, happy, lucky |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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