Crippling
Crippling adjective - That cripples or disables or incapacitates.
Unfortunate and crippling are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Unfortunate" instead an adjective "Crippling".
Unfortunate
Unfortunate adjective - Bringing about ruin or misfortune.
Crippling and unfortunate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crippling" instead an adjective "Unfortunate".
Nearby Word: unfortunately
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- disastrous and crippling
- disastrous and unfortunate
- dire and crippling
- dire and unfortunate
- calamitous and crippling
- calamitous and unfortunate
- injurious and crippling
- injurious and unfortunate
- catastrophic and crippling
- catastrophic and unfortunate
- fatal and crippling
- fatal and unfortunate
- detrimental and crippling
- detrimental and unfortunate
Both words in one sentence
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See Crippling Castration for examples of groin attacks that lead to the unfortunate victim losing his organs/the ability to procreate.
Source: Groin Attack - A Series of Unfortunate Events: It isn't Aunt Josephine's numerous, crippling, irrational phobias that qualify her for this title, but rather the way she instantly and shamelessly promises not to reveal Olaf's disguise and offers for him to take the children when she is threatened.
Source: Dirty Coward
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Unfortunate and Crippling. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 08, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/crippling/unfortunate
Crippling & Unfortunate. N.p., 2016. Web. 08 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/crippling/unfortunate>.
Unfortunate or Crippling. 2016. Accessed August 08, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/crippling/unfortunate.
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