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Showing or resulting from contrition
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- Showing or resulting from contrition
- Arising from or expressing contrition:
- Feeling regret and sorrow for one's sins or offenses; penitent.
Marked by or filled with remorse.
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- Marked by or filled with remorse.
- Expressing or caused by remorse.
- (Of a person) Feeling or filled with remorse.
Sorrowful about what has been lost or done.
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- Sorrowful about what has been lost or done.
- Full of regret; sorrowful or sorry.
Arousing or deserving of scornful pity.
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- Arousing or deserving of scornful pity.
- Arousing or deserving of sympathetic sadness and compassion:
- Expressing, arousing, or intended to arouse pity, sorrow, sympathy, or compassion; pitiful
Feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow.
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- Feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow.
- Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.
- Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
Filled with despondency; dejected
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- Filled with despondency; dejected
- Feeling or expressing despondency; dejected.
ashamed
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sorry
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pitiful
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sad
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Arousing or deserving of sympathetic sadness and compassion:
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- Arousing or deserving of sympathetic sadness and compassion:
- Pitifully unsuccessful, ineffective, etc.
- Expressing, arousing, or intended to arouse pity, sorrow, sympathy, or compassion; pitiful
Arousing or deserving pity or compassion
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- Arousing or deserving pity or compassion
- Pitiful; evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy.
- Demanding or arousing pity:
Negative, unfavorable, or disapproving:
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- Negative, unfavorable, or disapproving:
- Eliciting or deserving pity; pitiable:
- Not adequate in quality or quantity; inferior:
Causing sorrow or pity.
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- Causing sorrow or pity.
- (Now Rare) Full of ruth; feeling, showing, or arousing pity or sorrow
Wretched; bad:
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- Wretched; bad:
- Worthy of severe condemnation or reproach:
- That can or should be deplored; regrettable, wretched, very bad, etc.
Causing grief:
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- Causing grief:
- Filled with or expressing grief; mournful.
- Full of or causing sorrow or sadness; mournful; melancholy
(Archaic) Painful
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- (Archaic) Painful
- Marked by or exhibiting sorrow, grief, or pain.
- Very sorrowful or sad; mournful
Causing suffering; hard to bear; severe
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- Causing suffering; hard to bear; severe
- Showing or characterized by grief
- Serious or dire; grave:
(Now Rare) Expressing sorrow; mournful
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- (Now Rare) Expressing sorrow; mournful
- Inspiring or deserving of lament or regret; deplorable or pitiable.
- To be lamented; grievous; deplorable; distressing
Eliciting or deserving regret:
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- Eliciting or deserving regret:
- To be regretted; unfortunate
(Informal) Very bad; deplorable
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- (Informal) Very bad; deplorable
- Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing:
- Showing, expressing, or feeling sorrow or unhappiness:
Feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow.
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- Feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow.
- Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.
- Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
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- Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
- Affected by or full of woe; mournful:
- Pitiful; wretched; miserable
Causing grief:
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- Causing grief:
- Filled with or expressing grief; mournful.
- Full of or causing sorrow or sadness; mournful; melancholy
(Archaic) Painful
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- (Archaic) Painful
- Marked by or exhibiting sorrow, grief, or pain.
- Very sorrowful or sad; mournful
Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
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- Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
- Very sad or mournful, esp. in a way that seems exaggerated or ridiculous
Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.
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- Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.
- Expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad
(Informal) Very bad; deplorable
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- (Informal) Very bad; deplorable
- Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing:
- Showing, expressing, or feeling sorrow or unhappiness:
Feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow.
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- Feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow.
- Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.
- Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
Of woeful appearance; looking sorrowful, mournful, or wretched
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- Of woeful appearance; looking sorrowful, mournful, or wretched
- Feeling, showing, or expressing deep sorrow, grief, or wretchedness:
- Filled with or deeply affected by woe.
Deplorably bad:
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- Deplorably bad:
- Pitiful; wretched; miserable
- Affected by or full of woe; mournful:
pity
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