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Adjectives (14)
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drab
adj. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; "her drab personality"; "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"; "a series of dreary dinner parties"
disconsolate, drear, joyless
adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear
adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
Fuzzynyms (46)
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funereal, sepulchral
adj. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones"
lugubrious
adj. excessively mournful
melancholy, melancholic
adj. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
miserable, suffering, wretched
adj. very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
brokenhearted, heartbroken, heartsick
adj. full of sorrow
woebegone, woeful
adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
chapfallen, chopfallen, crestfallen, deflated
adj. brought low in spirit; "left us fatigued and deflated spiritually"
deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched
adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
hopeless
adj. (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"
mournful, plaintive
adj. expressing sorrow
harsh
adj. disagreeable to the senses; "the harsh cry of a blue jay"; "harsh cognac"; "the harsh white light makes you screw up your eyes"; "harsh irritating smoke filled the hallway"
demoralizing, demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting
adj. destructive of morale and self-reliance
somber, sombre, solemn
adj. grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"
glum
adj. moody and melancholic
dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
adj. showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
huffish, sulky
adj. sullen or moody
serious
adj. concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities; "a serious student of history"; "a serious attempt to learn to ski"; "gave me a serious look"; "a serious young man"; "are you serious or joking?"; "Don't be so serious!"
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grotty
adj. very unpleasant or offensive ; "a grotty little play"
homely
adj. without artificial refinement or elegance; "plain homely furniture"; "homely manners"
unappealing
adj. not able to attract favorable attention; "they have made the place as unappealing as possible"; "was forced to talk to his singularly unappealing hostess"
subfusc
adj. devoid of brightness or appeal; "a subfusc mining town"; "dark subfusc clothing"
unlovely, unpicturesque
adj. without beauty or charm
unprepossessing, unpresentable
adj. creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
gloomy, dismal, sorry
adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
somber, sombre, melancholy
adj. grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"
dreary, disconsolate, drear, joyless
adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
gloomy, dismal, sorry
adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
somber, sombre, melancholy
adj. grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"
Antonyms (2)
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cheerful
adj. being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greeting"; "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be"
cheerful
adj. being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greeting"; "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be"
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