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