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  • 61dissatisfied — adj 1. displeased, unhappy, unsatisfied; discontent, discontented, ungratified, unfulfilled, frustrated, disturbed; offended, rubbed the wrong way; irked, annoyed, ticked off, teed off, Sl. pissed; mad, angry, angered, Inf. hopping; in a snit,… …

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  • 62regretful — adj 1. sorrowful, rueful, contrite, sorry, compunctious; conscience stricken, conscience smitten, remorseful, repining, regretting, full of regrets; apologetic, repentant, penitent, humbled, abject, sheepish; self condemning, self punishing, self …

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  • 63remorseful — adj sorry, sorrowful, regretful, rueful, contrite, compunctious; conscience stricken, conscience smitten, guilt ridden, repining, regretting, full of regrets; apologetic, repentant, penitent, penitential, atoning, in sackcloth and ashes; humbled …

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  • 64rueful — adj 1. pitiable, piteous, deplorable, pathetic; miserable, wretched, abject, squalid, stark, dismal, shabby, mean, low, a sad sight, sad to behold. 2. mournful, doleful, dolorous, grieving, plaintive, lamenting; woebegone, full of woe, lugubrious …

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  • 65sorry — adj 1. remorseful, regretful, rueful, contrite, compunctious; conscience stricken, conscience smitten, guilt ridden, repining, regretting, full of regrets; apologetic, repentant, penitent, pentitential, atoning, in sackcloth and ashes; humbled,… …

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  • 66unrepining — un·repining …

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  • 67repine — /rəˈpaɪn / (say ruh puyn) verb (i) (repined, repining) to be fretfully discontented and out of sorts; fret. {apparently re + pine2 (verb) …

  • 68grief — [n] mental suffering affliction, agony, anguish, bemoaning, bereavement, bewailing, care, dejection, deploring, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, disquiet, distress, dole, dolor, gloom, grievance, harassment, heartache,… …

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  • 69mourning — [n] sadness, time of sadness aching, bereavement, blackness, crying, darkness, grief, grieving, keening, lamentation, lamenting, languishing, moaning, pining, repining, sorrowing, wailing, weeping, woe; concepts 388,410 Ant. cheer, happiness, joy …

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  • 70Fergusson, Robert — (1750 1774)    Born and died in Edinburgh, he was one of the leading figures of the 18th century revival of Scots vernacular writing and the chief forerunner of Robert Burns. Although entered at St. Andrews University, his father s death forced… …

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