| painful(adjective, awful, gloomy, miserable, grim) |
| woeful(adjective, miserable, wretched, anguished) |
| affecting(adjective, moving, tender, stirring, distressing) |
| bitter |
| doleful(adjective, sad, awful, miserable, grim) |
| emotive(adjective, moving, tender, stirring) |
| excruciating |
| harrowing(adjective, sad, awful, miserable, grim) |
| heartwrenching |
| mournful(adjective, sad, awful, miserable, grim) |
| plaintive(adjective, gloomy, miserable, wretched, anguished) |
| sorrowful(adjective, sad, awful, miserable, grim) |
| tear-jerking(adjective, moving, tender, pitiful, stirring) |
| tender(adjective, moving, stirring) |
| upsetting(adjective, awful, terrible, shocking, dreadful) |
| afflictive(miserable, wretched, distressing, upsetting, anguished) |
| anguished(sad, awful, miserable, grim, wretched) |
| appalling |
| calamitous(awful, terrible, miserable, wretched, dreadful) |
| deplorable(adjective, sad, awful, terrible, miserable) |