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sunk
adjective as in damaged
adjective as in deep
adjective as in despairing
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adjective as in desperate
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adjective as in done for
adjective as in doomed
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adjective as in downcast
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- bummed out
- cast down
- chapfallen
- cheerless
- crestfallen
- daunted
- dejected
- despondent
- disappointed
- disconsolate
- disheartened
- dismayed
- dispirited
- distressed
- doleful
- down in the dumps
- down-in-the-mouth
- downhearted
- dragged
- droopy
- dull
- gloomy
- glum
- heartsick
- in pain
- listless
- low-spirited
- miserable
- mopey
- morose
- oppressed
- sad
- shot down
- singing the blues
- troubled
- weighed down
- woebegone
adjective as in drowned
adjective as in hopeless
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- bad
- beyond recall
- cynical
- dejected
- demoralized
- despairing
- despondent
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- downhearted
- fatal
- gone
- goner
- ill-fated
- impracticable
- in despair
- incurable
- irredeemable
- irreparable
- irreversible
- irrevocable
- lost
- menacing
- no-win
- past hope
- shot down
- sinister
- threatening
- unachievable
- unavailing
- unfortunate
- unmitigable
- up the creek
- vain
- woebegone
- worsening
adjective as in irremediable
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- bad
- beyond recall
- cureless
- cynical
- dejected
- demoralized
- despairing
- desperate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- downhearted
- fatal
- forlorn
- gone
- goner
- helpless
- ill-fated
- impossible
- impracticable
- in despair
- incurable
- irredeemable
- irreparable
- irreversible
- irrevocable
- lost
- menacing
- no-win
- past hope
- pointless
- sad
- shot down
- sinister
- threatening
- tragic
- unachievable
- unavailing
- unfortunate
- unmitigable
- up the creek
- useless
- vain
- woebegone
- worsening
adjective as in kaput
adjective as in reduced
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Weak match
Example Sentences
INREDH, a local human rights group, documented 14 sunk boats over the period, four damaged, and one missing.
Steven Pinker, a professor who teaches an introductory psychology course, said he has felt compelled to inflate grades at a similar rate to the college-wide data, even though he believes student performance has sunk.
Or is it “sunk”? Anyway, the horses looked like they were working really hard to pull the wheels out of the grooves in the street.
The original cast of subprime financiers had been sunk by the small fraction of the loans they made that they had kept on their books.
“U-95 was sunk by a Dutch submarine off the Spanish coast after failing to identify the threat, her crew fretting among themselves—‘What sort of a boat was she?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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