anguished
Wracked with grief
Anguished describes someone experiencing or expressing severe mental or emotional pain: an anguished cry, anguished parents waiting for news.
The word conveys torment that's visible or audible—anguish that can't be contained.
It applies to faces, voices, pleas, and the people themselves: She gave him an anguished look.
Feeling guilt for wrongdoing
- repentantFeeling sorrow for misdeeds
- guilt-riddenTormented by remorse
- contriteFeeling guilt over misdeeds
- penitentOne showing remorse
ashamed · conscience-stricken · regretful · tormented · haunted · confessional · apologetic · rueful
Period following loss
- bereavementState following loss
- bereavedDeprived by death
- grievingFeeling sorrow after loss
- lossBeing without something
inconsolable · lamentation · wailing · keening · bereft · funeral · eulogy · condolences
Caused intense suffering
- agonizedSuffered extreme distress
- writhingTwisting the body convulsively
- rackedCaused severe suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
afflicted · traumatized · distraught · overwrought · harrowed · persecuted · oppressed · beset
Overwhelmed with grief
- lovelornUnhappy due to unreturned affection
- jiltedAbruptly rejected romantically
- spurnedRejected with contempt
- rejectedRefused or turned away
unrequited · forsaken · abandoned · desolate · crestfallen · pining · yearning · lovesick
Beyond possibility of success
- despairingCompletely without hope
- despondentDeeply discouraged, hopeless
- bleakDreary and without cheer
- defeatedOvercome in contest
helpless · overwhelmed · abject · wretched · resigned · desolate · inconsolable · broken
remorseful
Feeling guilt for wrongdoing
- repentantFeeling sorrow for misdeeds
- guilt-riddenTormented by remorse
- contriteFeeling guilt over misdeeds
penitent · ashamed · conscience-stricken · regretful · tormented · haunted · confessional · apologetic · rueful · self-loathing
mourning
Period following loss
- bereavementState following loss
- bereavedDeprived by death
- grievingFeeling sorrow after loss
loss · inconsolable · lamentation · wailing · keening · bereft · funeral · eulogy · condolences · memorial
tortured
Caused intense suffering
- agonizedSuffered extreme distress
- writhingTwisting the body convulsively
- rackedCaused severe suffering
suffering · afflicted · traumatized · distraught · overwrought · harrowed · persecuted · oppressed · beset · plagued
brokenhearted
Overwhelmed with grief
- lovelornUnhappy due to unreturned affection
- jiltedAbruptly rejected romantically
- spurnedRejected with contempt
rejected · unrequited · forsaken · abandoned · desolate · crestfallen · pining · yearning · lovesick · gutted
hopeless
Beyond possibility of success
- despairingCompletely without hope
- despondentDeeply discouraged, hopeless
- bleakDreary and without cheer
defeated · helpless · overwhelmed · abject · wretched · resigned · desolate · inconsolable · broken · crushed
cry
Vocal expression of emotion
shriek · howl · scream · lament · plea · outcry · groaning · whimpering · keening · plaintive
- dramatic tonesintense, tense, suspenseful, ominous, foreboding
- emotionsjoy, anger, fear, sadness, love
- melodramatichistrionic, theatrical, overwrought, exaggerated, dramatic
- sadnesssad, unhappy, grief, sorrowful, heartbroken
- overwhelmedstressed, overwhelmed, stressed out, burnt out, burned out
- toneshigh tone, low tone, mid tone, neutral tone, tone language
- mental anguishSevere psychological distress
- in anguish
- anguished cryVocalized intense distress
- deep anguish
- spiritual anguishInner suffering of being