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| severe | |
| sorrowful(dull, gloomy, melancholy, miserable) | |
| soul-crushing | |
| substandard(adjective, quiet, slack, rotten, tainted) | |
| tragic | |
| unfortunate(adjective, sorrow, negative, emotion) | |
| unfulfilling(adjective, unpleasant, mediocre, distasteful, second-rate) | |
| unmanning | |
| woeful(pain, gloomy, melancholy, sorrowful) | |
| wretched | |
| affecting | |
| afflicting | |
| aggravating(adjective, sorrow, negative, emotion) | |
| alarming | |
| annoying(adjective, sorrow, negative, emotion) | |
| averting(verb, dissuading) | |
| awing | |
| banning(verb, dissuading) | |
| barring(verb, dissuading) | |
| black |
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