3
dreariness(misery, unhappiness)
3
fail
3
grievance(noun, worry, pain, sorrow, want)
3
hard luck(noun, expression, ruin, pain, catastrophe)
3
heavy heart(noun, expression, idiom, distress, pain)
3
infelicity(noun, pain, sorrow, depression, sadness)
3
infliction(noun, pain, disaster, adversity, calamity)
3
lament(noun, verb, crying, weeping, condolence)
3
letdown(noun, pain, sorrow, depression, melancholy)
3
load(noun, trouble, blow, distress, care)
3
mortification(noun, trouble, distress, care, pain)
3
onus
3
painfulness(noun, pain)
3
pathos
3
peril(noun, trouble, worry, difficulty, lack)
3
plaintiveness(noun, lamentation)
3
poverty(noun, depression, want, sadness, lack)
3
qualm(noun, worry, concern, distress, shame)
3
repining(noun, pain, sorrow, suffering, anguish)
3
ruefulness(noun, worry, concern, distress, shame)
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