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Chinese dictionary
- 1
adj.disastrous; severe; to a serious degree
她冻惨了。
She nearly froze to death.
我们都被蚊子咬惨了。
We were all badly bitten by mosquitoes.
这回他们输惨了。
They suffered a crushing defeat this time.
- 2
adj.miserable; tragic; wretched; deplorable; pitiful
现在情况真惨。
The situation is truly tragic.
惨不忍睹
too horrible to look at
她死得很惨。
She died a tragic death.
- 3
adj.cruel; inhuman; merciless; brutal; savage
惨遭杀害
be murdered in cold blood
惨无人道
inhuman
Words and phrases with 惨
- 惨淡[word]dim; taking great pains
- 惨祸[word]horrible disaster
- 惨怛[word]grieved
- 惨变[word]tragic turn of fortune; turn pale
- 惨苦[word]miserable
- 惨澹[word]same as 惨淡
- 惨叫[word]give a blood-curdling scream
- 惨重[word]grievous
- 惨白[word]dim/gloomy/faint; dreadfully/ghostly/deathly pale
- 惨绝人寰[idiom]tragic beyond compare in the human world
- 惨无人道[idiom]brutal
- 惨不忍闻[idiom]too tragic for words
- 惨淡经营[idiom]keep going by painstaking effort
- 惨无天日[idiom]too dark, or full of suffering, that it is as if the sun were not in the sky
- 惨绿愁红[idiom]devastated leaves and flowers
- 惨遭不幸[idiom]die a tragic death
- 惨不忍睹[idiom]be too horrible/tragic to look at
- 惨不忍言[idiom]be too deplorable to describe
Word usage
- Note"惨" is different from "残". "残" means that actions and behaviors are very violent and vicious, which is an external manifestation; "惨" indicates that the inner feeling is very miserable and painful.