Painful, sorrowful; sad.

Characterized by, involving, or causing sorrow; grievous, distressing, lamentable.

Causing distress or sorrow; painful, grievous, dismal.

= yomer, adj.

Exciting sorrow or compassion; pitiable, lamentable; doleful, dismal.

Causing mental pain or distress. Now with narrowed sense: Exciting grief or intense sorrow.

Causing or occasioning sorrow; distressing, grievous, saddening; sad, sorrowful.

Causing or evoking sorrow; calamitous, distressing.

= doleful, adj.1

Causing grief or pain; distressing, hurtful, injurious.

Painful, sorrowful; †grievous.

That causes grief, pain, or annoyance.

Characterized by or causing sorrow; sad, doleful, lamentable.

Full of sadness; sad, sorrowful; dreary, dismal: cf. trist, adj.2

Causing or giving rise to grief or sorrow; grievous, distressful; doleful, dismal.

Doleful, sorrowful, sad.

Causing or evoking sorrow or grief; lamentable.

Causing grief, distressing.

Of a fact, event, situation, etc.: saddening, lamentable, deplorable.