rueful

dirgelike, elegiac (also elegiacal), melancholy

dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, dispirited, downcast, downhearted, heartsick, heartsore, inconsolable, tearful

brokenhearted, careworn, crestfallen, downcast, downhearted, forlorn, gloomy, glum, low-spirited, miserable, sad, triste, unhappy, woebegone

bawling, crying, groaning, howling, keening, moaning, yammering

bleeding, suffering

black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, darkening, desolate, dismal, dreary, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray (also grey), joyless, low, miserable, moody, morbid, morose, pathetic, pessimistic, piteous, saturnine, somber (or sombre), sullen, wretched

ashamed, shamefaced, sheepish

dolorous, grieving, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful, wailing, weeping, woeful

deplorable, lamentable, regrettable

emotional, impressive, inspiring

affecting, moving, poignant, stirring, touching

awful, horrible, terrible

distressing, disturbing, upsetting

grievous, mournful, sad, sorrowful, woeful