SOUL-DESTROYING Synonyms

• destructive of morale and self-reliance

• causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• crushed by grief

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• reduce in population

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• without or almost without hope

• making light of

• wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction

• physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination

• depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action

• expressing disapproval in order to dissuade

• destructive of morale and self-reliance

• destructive of morale and self-reliance

• showing sorrow

• lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise

• causing dejection

• marked by or showing hopelessness

• depressingly dark

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• causing or marked by grief or anguish

• without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success

• of a person unable to do something skillfully

• certain to fail

• (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform

• not experiencing or inspiring joy

• a feeling of thoughtful sadness

• a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

• a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• grave or even gloomy in character

• very unhappy; full of misery

• deserving or inciting pity

• of the most contemptible kind

• of very poor quality or condition

• characterized by physical misery

• contemptibly small in amount

• weighing heavily on the senses or spirit

• marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior

• so strong as to be irresistible

• very strong; urgently felt