bummer
Unfortunate turn, man
Bummer expresses disappointment about an unfortunate situation: What a bummer that the concert got canceled.
The word is casual and relatively mild—appropriate for minor setbacks rather than serious misfortune.
A bummer can also be the disappointing thing itself: The rain was a real bummer.
In older slang, a bummer was a bad drug experience, especially on hallucinogens.
Failure to satisfy expectations
- downerDispiriting experience or thing
- dragResistance through fluid
- buzzkillFun-spoiling person or thing
- anticlimaxDisappointing conclusion after buildup
setback · defeat · failure · misfortune · heartbreak · crushing · deflating · disheartening
Episode of losing control
- paranoiaIrrational persecution fears
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
- comedownHumiliating loss of status
- crashSudden violent impact
downer · overdose · flashback · hallucination · panic · psychedelic · acid · shrooms
letdown
Failure to satisfy expectations
- downerDispiriting experience or thing
- dragResistance through fluid
- buzzkillFun-spoiling person or thing
anticlimax · setback · defeat · failure · misfortune · heartbreak · crushing · deflating · disheartening · discouraging
freakout
Episode of losing control
- paranoiaIrrational persecution fears
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
- comedownHumiliating loss of status
crash · downer · overdose · flashback · hallucination · panic · psychedelic · acid · shrooms · drug
shame
Painful awareness of failure
hobo
Itinerant without fixed address
wanderer · freeloader · moocher · loafer · panhandler · beggar · homeless · derelict · tramp · slacker
- letdownsletdown, disappointment, anticlimax, dud, flop
- retro slanggroovy, far out, the bee's knees, neato, cool cat
- Civil War Slangskedaddle, Johnny Reb, bluebelly, grayback, copperhead
- lamentslamentation, wailing, keen, keening, lament
- Mild Oathsdarn, drat, gosh, heck, shoot
- slangslang, jargon, lingo, argot, cant
- bummed outSlangily disappointed or sad
- bumming aroundIdling without purpose
- bummed aroundIdled without direction