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Tending to cause great distress or anxiety

Causing or inspiring fear, dread or alarm

Feeling or expressing sorrow or misery

Suggestive of, or characterized by, sorrow, distress or regret

Having a somber or dismal atmosphere or nature

Pitiful or deplorable, deserving of contempt

Subpar or very mediocre in standard or quality

Feeling resentment at having been unfairly treated

Not great in amount or number

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Adjective

Tending to cause great distress or anxiety

unfavourable^UK

heart-wrenching

demoralising^UK

demoralizing^US

disadvantageous

beyond contempt

earth-shattering

behind the eightball

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“Then the messengers dispersed to tell some families the woeful news of a son or a husband or a father taken.”

Adjective

Causing or inspiring fear, dread or alarm

unfavourable^UK

poverty-stricken

full of hardship

life-threatening

suggestive of evil

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“A recent examination of these records suggests there was an alarming and woeful lack of attention to detail in the planning of this operation.”

Adjective

Feeling or expressing sorrow or misery

down in the mouth

down in the dumps

in the doldrums

sick as a parrot

singing the blues

as sick as a parrot

heavy with grief

overcome with sorrow

discombobulated

down-in-the-mouth

sorry for yourself

on the verge of tears

ill-humoured^UK

prostrate with grief

unable to be comforted

unable to be consoled

beside oneself with grief

with a long face

conscience-stricken

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

discountenanced

in floods of tears

with tears in your eyes

racked with suffering

racked with pain

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“She has been feeling woeful after her lover's death in battle.”

Adjective

Suggestive of, or characterized by, sorrow, distress or regret

down in the mouth

down in the dumps

heavy with grief

racked with pain

racked with suffering

self-reproachful

conscience-stricken

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“He felt a tug on his heart as he watched her face, her woeful expression silhouetted by the moonlight.”

Adjective

Having a somber or dismal atmosphere or nature

down in the dumps

down in the mouth

in the doldrums

unfavourable^UK

disadvantageous

given to looking on the black side

poverty-stricken

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“Julie woke up the next morning to more clouds in the sky and a very drab, woeful atmosphere.”

Adjective

Pitiful or deplorable, deserving of contempt

a load of pants

foolish-looking

not up to snuff

dishonorable^US

dishonourable^UK

dissatisfactory

bargain-basement

less-than-stellar

less than ideal

not good enough

not up to scratch

not up to standard

in short supply

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“The analysis of this highly stochastic and contingent process is exacerbated when one considers the often woeful quality of the data.”

Adjective

Subpar or very mediocre in standard or quality

not up to scratch

of poor quality

a load of pants

not up to snuff

dissatisfactory

less-than-stellar

bargain-basement

cheap and nasty

end-of-the-pier

not up to standard

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“Given the woeful standard of the current round of junior applicants to the profession, William thought that maybe David didn't have to go to such extraordinary lengths to prove himself.”

Adjective

Feeling resentment at having been unfairly treated

in high dudgeon

not best pleased

hot under the collar

bent out of shape

foaming at the mouth

as cross as two sticks

blue in the face

gnashing one's teeth

at daggers drawn

evil-intentioned

ill-humoured^UK

with a chip on your shoulder

unjustifiably resentful

unjustifiably offended

burning with excitement

disapproving of

cut to the quick

fed up to the teeth

fed up to the back teeth

with chip on shoulder

overcome with anger

at boiling point

beside yourself

beside yourself with rage

with all guns blazing

at end of one's rope

hot and bothered

rubbed the wrong way

in a filthy temper

like a bear with a sore head

on a short fuse

discombobulated

discountenanced

out of countenance

having got out of bed on the wrong side

having got out of bed the wrong side

ready to be tied

as black as thunder

carrying a chip on your shoulder

perversely irritable

in a towering rage

like a fish out of water

at sixes and sevens

full of dislike

easily offended

having short fuse

hot under collar

have had it up to here with

have had enough

have had a basinful of

have had something up to here

caught off balance

thrown off balance

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Adjective

Not great in amount or number

inconsequential

nickel-and-dime

not worth mentioning

not worth bothering about

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