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somber, sombre, serious

adj. (unplayful)

somber, sombre, melancholy

adj. grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"

drab, sober, somber, sombre

adj. lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"

deadly, deathly, mortal

adj. causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"

fatal, fateful

adj. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events"

malignant

adj. dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)

discriminatory, invidious

adj. containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice; "discriminatory attitudes and practices"; "invidious comparisons"

malevolent

adj. wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred; "a gossipy malevolent old woman"; "failure made him malevolent toward those who were successful"

furtive, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious

adj. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"

baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent

adj. exceedingly harmful

bad

adj. capable of harming; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"

bad, unfit, unsound

adj. physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth"

bad, risky, high-risk, speculative

adj. not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"

bad

adj. having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"

prejudicial, prejudicious

adj. tending to favor preconceived ideas; "the presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white population"

deleterious, hurtful, injurious

adj. harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"

unwholesome

adj. detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"

insidious, pernicious, subtle

adj. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"

harmful

adj. causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"

grave, sedate, sober, solemn

adj. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"

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"

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"

grey, gray

adj. intermediate in character or position; "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"

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"

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"

etiolate, etiolated, blanched

adj. (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light; "etiolated celery"

bleached, faded, washed-out, washy

adj. having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"

dulled, greyed

adj. deprived of color; "colors dulled by too much sun"; "greyed with the dust of the road"

dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy

adj. (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"

white, whitened

adj. (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age"

colored, coloured, colorful

adj. having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain"

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