Vocabulary for a Lousy, Rotten Day
Have you ever had a day when everything went wrong? The weather was bad, the people were rude, and by the end of it you were just tired and annoyed!
Talking about it is a great way to make you feel better, so here's some vocabulary to help you describe your "lousy" — or very bad — day.
Your bad day might start when you wake up and see it's cold and raining. You might say, "The weather is so rotten!" The word "rotten" is used to describe food that's too old to eat, so we use it to talk about things that are very bad.
After walking to work in the bad weather, you might feel unhappy or even a little tired and unwell when you get to the office. You might message a friend to say, "I feel dreadful after being out in the rain."
If you've got a lot of hard work to do, but people keep interrupting and annoying you, you might think to yourself, "This is such a trying day." When something is both difficult and annoying, you can call it "trying."
When you get home from work, you might say to your partner, "Today has been a rough ride. I'm so glad it's almost over." A "rough ride" is a difficult time or experience.
Your partner might reply by saying, "Today really put you through the mill, didn't it?" To go "through the mill" is to have a very difficult experience — just like grain being ground up to make flour in a mill.
