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| painful(adjective, hard, severe, difficult, tender) | |
| disastrous(adjective, awful, terrible, miserable, painful) | |
| evil(adjective, awful, black, atrocious, harmful) | |
| bad(adjective, unpleasant, awful, terrible, vicious) | |
| calamitous(adjective, severe, unpleasant, awful, terrible) | |
| catastrophic(adjective, awful, terrible, miserable, painful) | |
| baleful(adjective, dark, awful, terrible, gloomy) | |
| mortal(adjective, awful, terrible, horrible, afraid) | |
| ruinous(adjective, awful, terrible, painful, suffering) | |
| cataclysmic(adjective, awful, terrible, miserable, painful) | |
| fatal(adjective, sad, heavy, painful, suffering) | |
| baneful(adjective, dark, gloomy, grim, harmful) | |
| deadly(adjective, awful, terrible, horrible, painful) | |
| hurtful(adjective, severe, tender, unpleasant, awful) | |
| harmful(adjective, severe, awful, terrible, dreadful) | |
| noxious(adjective, harmful, injurious, deadly) | |
| fell(adjective, heavy, fear, acute, harmful) | |
| deleterious(adjective, nasty, harmful, injurious) | |
| devastating(adjective, dreadful, harmful, unfortunate, injurious) | |
| disadvantageous(adjective, injurious, destructive, arouse bad emotions) |
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