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(adj)
Characterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very miserable.
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That deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.
So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion; exciting pathos.
Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad, wretched.
Provoking pity, compassion, or sympathy.
Hateful, disgusting.
Having suffered misfortune; pitiable or habitually unfortunate.
Not comfortable; causing discomfort.
Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
Deserving contempt.
Marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable.
(especially of a person) unfortunate.
Experiencing pain; characterized by suffering.
(slang) Of a person, worthless, contemptibly of no value; despicable.
With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
(with to) Lower in rank, status, or quality.
Trashy, trivial, of little value.
(adv)
In a meager way; poorly; inadequately.
Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
Not happy; sad.
Covered in scum.
(figurative, archaic) Of a person or thing: disgustingly mean; contemptible, despicable, low.
Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
(figuratively, informal) Small (especially contemptibly small) in amount.
Having little flesh; lean; thin.
(n)
An unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person.
Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
(US, slang, derogatory) Extremely awful, unpleasant or dreadful.
Causing despair; gloomy and bleak.
Extremely bad; awful; terrible.
Very bad; abominable, disgusting.
Extremely unfavorable; terrible.
Causing depression or sadness.
Bad, evil or villainous.
Unhappy; despondent.
Very bad.
Morally low; base; despicable.
Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky.
Causing horror; horrifying.
(colloquial) Remarkably bad; of poor quality.
Causing feelings of sadness.
Extremely or shockingly ugly.
Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.
Very unpleasant; disagreeable.
Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
Causing great sadness or suffering.
Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
Tending to inspire horror; that horrifies; horrific.
Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected.
Horrifyingly shocking.
Intending to harm; malevolent.
unlucky; doomed.
Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
Unfortunate, marked by misfortune.
Causing distress; upsetting; distressful.
Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
Able to be regretted, especially deserving of regret.
A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
Outrageously bad; shocking.
Anxious or uneasy.
Given to sudden or frequent changes of mind; temperamental.
Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
(UK) Ill, unwell, sick.
Raunchy or perverted in nature; tastelessly sexual.
(slang, somewhat vulgar) Poorly or incompetently done; desultory.
Of low quality.
Reduced to poverty.
Which has broken down and, as a result, is no longer in working order.
Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
(informal) Bad; poor.
Causing horror or dread.
Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
Lacking money, poor, impoverished; especially, extremely so.
Feeling physical or emotional pain.
(chiefly Canada, US, colloquial, mildly vulgar) Of very poor quality; unpleasant; distasteful.
(colloquial) Unconvincing or unbelievable.
Of inferior significance, size, or strength; ineffective, small, weak.
Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents.
Like a miser, very or objectionably cautious with money.
Having no worth or use; without value.
(often derogatory) Having little or no importance.
Failed, not successful.
Extremely dirty and unpleasant.
Badly judged, unwise, rash.
So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.
Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure; intolerable, unbearable.
Of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect; scruffy.
Like a dork.
Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured.
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Incorrect or untrue.
In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.