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Adjectives (15)
somber
adj. grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"
somber, solemn
adj. grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"
somber, serious
adj. (unplayful)
sober, dull, subfusc, somber
adj. lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"
murky, shadowy, somber, tenebrous, tenebrific, tenebrious
adj. dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave"
Fuzzynyms (80)
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"
sour, sullen, glum, moody, dour, glowering, morose, saturnine
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"
black, dark, depressing, dispiriting, grim
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"
long-faced, gloomy, glum
adj. reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"
sour, sullen, glum, moody, dour, glowering, morose, saturnine
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"
sulky, huffish
adj. sullen or moody
mortal, deadly, deathly
adj. causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"
fatal, fateful
adj. having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived"
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, malicious
adj. having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling
skulking, sneak, surreptitious, stealthy, furtive, hole-and-corner, hole-in-corner, sneaky, underhand
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"
deadly, pestilent, baneful, pernicious
adj. exceedingly harmful
bad
adj. capable of harming; "bad habits"; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"
bad
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, speculative, risky, insecure, high-risk
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"
damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious, detrimental to
adj. (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury; "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant"
injurious, bruising, deleterious, hurtful, noxious
adj. harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"
unwholesome
adj. detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"
subtle, insidious, pernicious
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"
gray, grey
adj. any achromatic color between the extremes of black and white; reflects only a little light
Synonyms (61)
black, dark, depressing, dispiriting, grim
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"
gloomy, funereal, sepulchral
adj. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones"
mirthless, unamused
adj. lacking mirth
unsmiling
adj. not smiling
etiolate, blanched, etiolated, whitened
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"
dimmed, dulled, grayed
adj. deprived of color; "colors dulled by too much sun"; "greyed with the dust of the road"
dirty
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
adj. (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age"
acheronian, acherontic, stygian
adj. dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades; "in the depths of an Acheronian forest"; "upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue"-Wordsworth
aphotic
adj. lacking light; especially not reached by sunlight; "the aphotic depths of the sea where no photosynthesis occurs"
black, pitch-dark
adj. extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
obscure, caliginous, darkling
adj. (dark)
Cimmerian
adj. intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness; "the Cimmerian gloom...a darkness that could be felt"-Norman Douglas
twilight, dusky, crepuscular, twilit
adj. lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"
dim, subdued
adj. lacking in light; not bright or harsh; "a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music"
glooming, gloomy, gloomful
adj. depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"
lightless, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit
adj. without illumination; "came up the lightless stairs"; "the unilluminated side of Mars"; "through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets"
nighted, darkened
adj. become or made dark by lack of light; "a darkened house"; "the darkened theater"
umbrageous, shaded, shady
adj. filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands"
subfusc
adj. devoid of brightness or appeal; "a subfusc mining town"; "dark subfusc clothing"
Antonyms (16)
jolly, merry, jovial
adj. full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh"
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"
festival, festal, festive
adj. offering fun and gaiety; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening"
unholy, unhallowed
adj. not hallowed or consecrated
colored, coloured, colorful, in color, colourful
adj. having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain"
light, bright
adj. characterized by or emitting light; "a room that is light when the shutters are open"; "the inside of the house was airy and light"
sombre
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