afflictive+calamitous
41mournful — a. 1. Sad, distressing, afflicting, afflictive, grievous, calamitous, lamentable, melancholy, deplorable, woful. 2. Sad, melancholy, lugubrious, doleful, sorrowful, heavy. 3. Sorrowful, sad, unhappy, melancholy, heavy hearted …
42trying — a. 1. Irksome, wearisome, tiresome, fatiguing, difficult, hard. 2. Severe, painful, afflictive, afflicting, grievous, calamitous, hard, distressing, sad, dire, deplorable, hard to bear …
43unhappy — a. 1. Unfortunate, unlucky, infelicitous. 2. Wretched, miserable, distressed, afflicted, sorrowful, heart sick. 3. Grievous, disastrous, calamitous, severe, trying, painful, unfortunate, unlucky, sad, afflicting, afflictive, distressing,… …
44woful — a. [Written also Woeful.] 1. Sorrowful, distressed, sad, afflicted, unhappy, grieved, anguished, agonized, miserable, piteous, wretched, melancholy, disconsolate, troubled, burdened. See woe begone. 2. Grievous, distressing, afflicting,… …
45wretched — a. 1. Unhappy (on account of outward condition), forlorn, comfortless, woebegone, afflicted, distressed. See miserable. 2. Calamitous, afflictive, afflicting, deplorable, shocking, depressing, saddening, sad, sorrowful. 3. Bad, poor, vile, sorry …
46melancholy — I. n. Dejection, depression, gloominess, sadness, gloom, despondency, hypochondria, blues, blue devils, dumps, vapors, low spirits, depression of spirits. II. a. 1. Dejected, dispirited, depressed, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, disconsolate, doleful,… …
47adverse — adj 1. antagonistic, hostile, belligerent, bellicose, pugnacious; averse, unfriendly, uncongenial; antipathetic, antipathetical, repugnant, oppugnant, irreconcilable; injurious, inimical, pernicious, noxious, harmful, hurtful, afflictive,… …
48baleful — adj harmful, injurious, nocuous, hurtful, afflictive; destructive, ruinous, calamitous, disastrous; detrimental, pernicious, dangerous, hazardous, deleterious; pestilential, pestiferous, noxious, malicious, malign, malignant, menacing; malevolent …
49grievous — adj 1. sorrowful, mournful, sad, distressing, agonizing, crushing; painful, acute, sharp, cutting; heart rending, moving, Inf. tear jerking, pathetic, tragic, pitiful. 2. flagrant, blatant, egregious, heinous, shameful; atrocious, enormous,… …
50hard — adj 1. firm, solid, solidified, compact, condensed, close, compressed, pressed; flinty, stony, rocky, steely, concrete, hardened, petrified, stonelike, rocklike, glassy, lithoid, marblelike, granitelike; strong, substantial, stout, fixed, stable …
