Definition for Sob story:

• a sentimental story ( or drama) of personal distress; designed to arouse sympathy

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.

• 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 synonyms:

  •adj.
  • depressed.
  •n.
  • narration,
  • narrative,
  • story,
  • tale.

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.