adjective
1.
Synonyms: fearful 3, appalling, awful, direful, dreadful, frightful, horrible, shocking, terrible, terrific
2.
Synonyms: deplorable , afflictive, calamitous, distressing, grievous, heartbreaking, lamentable, regrettable, unfortunate, woeful
Related Word: depressing, oppressing
3.
Synonyms: ominous , apocalyptic, baleful, baneful, direful, fateful, ill-boding, inauspicious, threatening, unpropitious
4.
Synonyms: pressing , burning, clamant, clamorous, crying, exigent, imperative, importunate, instant, urgent
5.
Synonyms: acute 6, climacteric, critical, crucial, desperate