n.: painfully sad, feeling of painfulemotion, lamenting, grieved, woe, sadness, pang, pain, lamentation, laceration, jeremiad, distress, desolation, bitterness
adj.: sorrowful
vt.: lament, wail, deplore
French Expression
n. douleur, chagrin
Thesaurus Group
torture, ache, cause, distressed, hurt, affliction, distress That's beside the point., over[answer]wide of the mark, irrelevant to the subject, alien, Wrong of, abracadabra, shoot off one's face, Foreword Do not take their words, be beside the point; farfetched answer or reasoning, Incongruous, never talk about anything serious, to talk at random (often devoid of truth), Ghost Talk, babble, speak thoughtlessly or casually nonsense, nag; say over and over again; constantly repeat, babble, whine, fuss, talk about sth, often in a grumbling or argumentative way, mutter, complaint, sue; accuse, complain irritably, whine, bitch, mourn, deplore, chat, gossip, meander, rapid talk, talk quickly or glibly, ramble, have a soft spot for sb., confess, chat, chat, sth, turn sb. round one's finger, yack, toot Burble Said a solemn feast, yammer, fable depression, xiaoshen, dismay, sorrowful, belie, staleness, discourage, boredom, discomfort, boredom, complaint, diseased, acedia, misery, bottleneck, bother, distract, discomfort, startle, regret, mortifying, chagrin, remorse, bitch, resent, be hard done by, dejected, distress, make one's excuses to, ashamed, sorrow, afraid, bugbear
Antonym Group
tanzhu, tanli, write and bring out important points from a mass of facts as one who plucks a pearl from the black dragon, tanlizhu, come to business (=get down to business), gossip Hugh said,, gossip understate