68 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ sˈɒb stˈɔːɹɪ], [ sˈɒb stˈɔːɹɪ], [ s_ˈɒ_b s_t_ˈɔː_ɹ_ɪ]

Similar words for sob story:

• depressed (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• communication (noun)
• hard luck story (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "sob story" in context?

Homophones for sob story

Hyponyms for sob story

Synonyms for Sob story:

• adj.

  • depressed (adjective)
  • in a blue funk,
  • down in mouth,
  • woebegone,
  • cast-down,
  • low-down,
  • in the toilet,
  • lowdown,
  • in blue funk,
  • taken down,
  • on a downer,
  • tristful,
  • down in dumps,
  • down and out,
  • in the pits,
  • down in the dumps,
  • torn up,
  • melancholic,
  • morose,
  • cast down,
  • bummed out,
  • unhappy,
  • in pain,
  • in the dumps.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • depressed.

• n.

  •
  • depiction,
  • characterization,
  • description,
  • picture,
  • portrait,
  • profile,
  • version,
  • portrayal.
  • communication (noun)
  • sob stuff,
  • sob story.
  • hard luck story (noun)
  • schmaltz,
  • maudlin plea,
  • Sentimentalism,
  • tale of woe,
  • hardship tale,
  • pathos,
  • tearjerker,
  • human interest,
  • heartbreaker,
  • emotional appeal.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • narration,
  • tale,
  • story,
  • narrative.

• Other synonyms:

  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • romanticism,
  • mushiness,
  • sentimentality,
  • mawkishness,
  • nostalgia,
  • cloyingness,
  • sweetness and light,
  • nostomania,
  • sloppiness,
  • maudlinness,
  • mush,
  • namby-pamby,
  • bathos,
  • goo,
  • slop,
  • sentiment,
  • bleeding heart,
  • soap opera,
  • hearts-and-flowers,
  • slush.

How to use "Sob story" in context?

Homophones for Sob story:

• sophistry, space heater, spice tree, subjugator, suppository, subsister, subject area, subsidiary, spectre, specter, spectator, sob sister.

Hyponym for Sob story:

• n.

  • communication
    narration, tale, story, narrative.