miserable / wretched / cruel / inhuman / disastrous / tragic / dim / gloomy
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
miserable / tragic
tragedy / calamity / atrocity
disastrous
to suffer (defeat, death etc)
lit. so horrible that one cannot bear to look (idiom) / fig. miserable / horrendous / atrocious
to scream / blood-curdling screech / miserable shriek
to suffer a crushing defeat
bitter / painful / deeply distressed
to die tragically / to meet with a violent death
bitter / desperate
inhuman (idiom) / brutal and unfeeling
extremely tragic (idiom) / with unprecedented brutality
dark / gloomy / dismal / by painstaking effort
devastation / miserable condition
plaintive / mournful / miserable
(idiom) dreadful to hear
disaster
wretched situation
grieved / distressed
wretched sight
to slaughter / to kill mercilessly
cruel / vicious
tragic situation / dreadful state
to manage by painstaking effort (idiom)
grieved / distressed
deathly pale
terrible tragedy / grave mishap
bitter smile
dark red
calamitous turn of events / (of one's complexion) to change markedly due to shock, illness etc / to turn deathly pale
to meet with disaster / to die tragically
(idiom) too appalling to look at
the massacre of 12th Mar 1927 / the Shanghai coup of 12th Mar 1927 by Chiang Kai-shek against the communists
(of women) grieved appearance (idiom) / sorrowful mien
(coll.) to play up one's misfortune to gain sympathy / to fish for pity
(literary) to massacre / to slaughter / to brutally kill
variant of 慘淡|惨淡[]
(literary) cruel / savage / merciless
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27