tragic (adj.)

• appalling
• atrocious
• awful
• baneful
• beastly
• black
• calamitous
• cataclysmal
• cataclysmic
• catastrophic
• cheerless
• crushing
• deplorable
• depressing
• destructive
• dire
• disastrous
• dismal
• distressing
• disturbing
• dolorous
• dreadful
• fatal
• forlorn
• funereal
• grievous
• grim
• hapless
• heavy
• hideous
• horrendous
• horrible
• horrid
• horrific
• horrifying
• ill-fated
• ill-omened
• ill-starred
• inauspicious
• lachrymose
• lamentable
• lugubrious
• melancholy
• miserable
• morose
• mournful
• piteous
• pitiable
• pitiful
• rotten
• ruinous
• sad
• shocking
• terrible
• unfortunate
• unhappy
• unlucky
• unspeakable
• upsetting
• wretched