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(adj)
In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
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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.
Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
Having suffered misfortune; pitiable or habitually unfortunate.
Not comfortable; causing discomfort.
Marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
Experiencing pain; characterized by suffering.
(especially of a person) unfortunate.
(with to) Lower in rank, status, or quality.
With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
Not happy; sad.
(n)
Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
Extremely bad; awful; terrible.
Causing despair; gloomy and bleak.
Very bad; abominable, disgusting.
Extremely unfavorable; terrible.
Alternative form of godforsaken. [Abandoned by a deity or god.]
Godforsaken.
Bad, evil or villainous.
Morally low; base; despicable.
Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky.
Causing horror; horrifying.
Very bad.
Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
(prenominal) Hateful; detestable, loathsome.
Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.
Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean.
(colloquial) Remarkably bad; of poor quality.
Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
Repellently frightful and shocking; ghastly, horrific.
Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
Extremely or shockingly ugly.
Very unpleasant; disagreeable.
In the manner of a dastard; marked by cowardice; pusillanimous.
Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing.
Tending to inspire horror; that horrifies; horrific.
Not holy; (by extension) evil, impure, or otherwise perverted.
Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
(vulgar, sometimes offensive) Used as an intensifier.
Intending to harm; malevolent.
(euphemistic) Damn.
Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
Unfortunate, marked by misfortune.
Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable.
Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
Able to be regretted, especially deserving of regret.
Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
Anxious or uneasy.
A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
Having a bad reputation; disreputable; notorious; unpleasant or evil; widely known, especially for something scornful.
Of low quality.
Reduced to poverty.
Which has broken down and, as a result, is no longer in working order.
(informal) Bad; poor.
Causing horror or dread.
Adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
(chiefly Canada, US, colloquial, mildly vulgar) Of very poor quality; unpleasant; distasteful.
(colloquial) Unconvincing or unbelievable.
Trashy, trivial, of little value.
Lacking money, poor, impoverished; especially, extremely so.
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.
That astounds or astound.
(often derogatory) Having little or no importance.
Causing astonishment.
(sometimes vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.
Having no worth or use; without value.
Extremely dirty and unpleasant.
Of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect; scruffy.
Literal senses:
In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
(of a person) Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.
Obtained forcefully, not naturally.
(slang) Intoxicated, drunk.
(slang) Of poor quality or highly undesirable.
Having a pungent smell.
(informal, British, Ireland, Commonwealth, Hawaii, mildly vulgar) Used as an intensifier.
Stormy, of rough weather; not clement.
(figuratively, informal) In poor condition or repair.
(figuratively, informal) Small (especially contemptibly small) in amount.
Having little flesh; lean; thin.
(N)
a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Henry Levin and starring Glenn Ford and Broderick Crawford.
a Finnish gothic metal band that played melodic death metal in their early years.
Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.
Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
Deserving of damnation; very bad.
Causing great sadness or suffering.
Serious, grave, dire, or dangerous.
Devoid of cheer; gloomy.
(figuratively) Oppressed, persecuted or subjugated.
Of a thing: offering no comfort; uncomforting.