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Adjectives (29)
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grim
adj. "AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages"- Susan Sontag
ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick
adj. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited
adj. filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
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"
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eerie, eery
adj. inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl"
apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual
adj. resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"
supernatural
adj. not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material; "supernatural forces and occurrences and beings"
weird
adj. strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker
hideous, repulsive
adj. so extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask"
abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive
adj. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
ghoulish, morbid
adj. suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"
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"
demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy
adj. extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces"
infernal
adj. being of the underworld; "infernal regions"
flagitious, heinous
adj. extremely wicked, deeply criminal; "a flagitious crime"; "heinous accusations"
crimson, red, violent
adj. characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode
bloody
adj. having or covered with or accompanied by blood; "a bloody nose"; "your scarf is all bloody"; "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"; "a bloody fight"
nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile
adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
charnel, ghastly, sepulchral
adj. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous
adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
unhappy
adj. experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks so sad"
dysphoric, distressed, unhappy
adj. generalized feeling of distress
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"
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"
careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn
adj. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens
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"
forlorn
adj. marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"
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"
demoralized, demoralised, discouraged, disheartened
adj. made less hopeful or enthusiastic; "desperate demoralized people looking for work"; "felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem"; "the disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest"
low
adj. less than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "low prices"; "the reservoir is low"
irreparable
adj. impossible to repair, rectify, or amend; "irreparable harm"; "an irreparable mistake"; "irreparable damages"
unhappy, saddening, doleful
adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"
funereal, sepulchral
adj. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones"
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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appalling, dismaying
adj. causing consternation; "appalling conditions"
atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly
adj. provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"
awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
adj. causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening
adj. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"
bloodcurdling, hair-raising, nightmarish
adj. extremely alarming
chilling, scarey, scary, shivery, shuddery
adj. provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"
creepy, creepy-crawly
adj. causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin; "a creepy story"; "I had a creepy-crawly feeling"
redoubtable
adj. worthy of respect or honor; "born of a redoubtable family"
hairy
adj. hazardous and frightening; "hairy moments in the mountains"
terrific, terrifying
adj. causing extreme terror; "a terrifying wail"
amort
adj. utterly cast down
chapfallen, chopfallen, crestfallen, deflated
adj. brought low in spirit; "left us fatigued and deflated spiritually"
glum
adj. moody and melancholic
lonely, lonesome
adj. marked by dejection from being alone; "felt sad and lonely"; "the loneliest night of the week"; "lonesome when her husband is away"; "spent a lonesome hour in the bar"
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"
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elated
adj. exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits; "the elated winner"; "felt elated and excited"
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"
happy
adj. enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage"
euphoric
adj. exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation
bucked up(p), encouraged
adj. inspired with confidence; "felt bucked up by his success"
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"
grim
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