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• “felt regretful over his vanished youth“
• “regretful over mistakes she had made“
• “he felt bad about breaking the vase“

Synonyms

• regretful feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
• bad that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; with great intensity (`bad’ is a nonstandard variant for `badly’); very much; having undesirable or negative qualities; very intense; feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough’ is occasionally used colloquially for `bad’); (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; not capable of being collected; below average in quality or performance; nonstandard; not financially safe or secure; physically unsound or diseased; capable of harming; characterized by wickedness or immorality; reproduced fraudulently; not working properly

• “unfortunate“
• “my finances were in a deplorable state“
• “a lamentable decision“
• “her clothes were in sad shape“
• “a sorry state of affairs“

Synonyms

• deplorable bad; of very poor quality or condition; bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
• distressing causing distress or worry or anxiety; bad
• lamentable bad
• pitiful inspiring mixed contempt and pity; bad; deserving or inciting pity
• sad experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; of things that make you feel sad; bad

• “of little or no value or use“
• “a sorry horse“
• “a sorry excuse“
• “a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick“
• “the car was a no-good piece of junk“

Synonyms

• good-for-nothing without merit; an idle worthless person
• good-for-naught without merit; an idle worthless person
• meritless without merit
• no-account without merit; an idle worthless person
• no-count without merit
• no-good without merit; returned for lack of funds

• “a blue day“
• “the dark days of the war“
• “a week of rainy depressing weather“
• “a disconsolate winter landscape“
• “the first dismal dispiriting days of November“
• “a dark gloomy day“
• “grim rainy weather“

Synonyms

• blue turn blue ; blue color or pigment; blue clothing; any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; the sky as viewed during daylight; used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge ; the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae ; of the color intermediate between green and violet; used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); filled with melancholy and despondency; characterized by profanity or cursing; suggestive of sexual impropriety; belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; morally rigorous and strict; causing dejection
• dark absence of light or illumination ; absence of moral or spiritual values; an unilluminated area; the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside ; an unenlightened state; devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; (used of color) having a dark hue; brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes); stemming from evil characteristics or forces; secret; showing a brooding ill humor; lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture; marked by difficulty of style or expression; causing dejection; not giving performances
• dingy thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; (of color) discolored by impurities; causing dejection
• disconsolate sad beyond comforting; causing dejection
• dismal causing dejection
• gloomy depressingly dark; filled with melancholy and despondency; causing dejection
• grim not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; shockingly repellent; harshly ironic or sinister; harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; filled with melancholy and despondency; causing dejection
• drab a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown ; lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; lacking brightness or color; of a light brownish green color ; causing dejection
• drear causing dejection
• dreary lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; causing dejection