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Adjectives (10)
gray, grey, leaden
adj. darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a grey rainy afternoon"; "grey clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"
sour, 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"
Fuzzynyms (63)
depressive, gloomy, depressing, unhappy, saddening
adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"
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"
somber, sombre, solemn
adj. grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"
long-faced, gloomy, glum
adj. reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"
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"
lugubrious
adj. excessively mournful
temperamental
adj. relating to or caused by temperament; "temperamental indifference to neatness"; "temperamental peculiarities"
pensive, wistful
adj. showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"
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"
acid, bitter, caustic, virulent, venomous, vitriolic, blistering, scathing, acerb, acerbic
adj. harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique"
acetose, acetous, vinegary
adj. tasting or smelling like vinegar
forbidding, ugly, ominous, dire, direful, baleful, menacing, minacious, minatory, 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"
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!"
morbid, ghoulish
adj. suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"
somber, sombre
adj. grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"
broody, musing, brooding, reflective, pensive, contemplative, meditative, pondering, ruminative
adj. persistently or morbidly thoughtful
Synonyms (79)
foggy, brumous, hazy, misty
adj. filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October morning"
overcast, cloud-covered, clouded, sunless
adj. filled or abounding with clouds
cloudlike, nebular
adj. resembling a cloud
lowering, dark, heavy, threatening
adj. darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"
miasmal, miasmic, vaporous
adj. filled with vapor; "miasmic jungles"; "a vaporous bog"
smoggy
adj. clouded with a mixture of smoke and fog; "the smoggy atmosphere of Los Angeles"
argumentative, contentious, disputatious, disputative, litigious
adj. inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits; "a style described as abrasive and contentious"; "a disputatious lawyer"; "a litigious and acrimonious spirit"
dyspeptic, atrabilious, bilious, liverish
adj. irritable as if suffering from indigestion
bristly, prickly, snappish, splenetic, waspish
adj. very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"
cantankerous, crotchety, ornery
adj. having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers
choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-headed, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered
adj. quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"
cross, fussy, crabbed, crabby, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered
adj. perversely irritable
fractious, cranky, irritable, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, testy, tetchy, techy
adj. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
gruff, crusty, curmudgeonly, ill-humored, ill-humoured
adj. brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"
feisty, touchy
adj. quick to take offense
sulky, huffish
adj. sullen or moody
misanthropic, misanthropical
adj. hating mankind in general
misogynous
adj. hating women in particular
shirty, snorty
adj. (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed
vixenish, shrewish, nagging
adj. continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife"; "nagging parents"
ugly, surly
adj. inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"
Antonyms (10)
sunny
adj. abounding with sunlight; "a bright sunny day"; "one shining morning"- John Muir; "when it is warm and shiny"
bright, shiny, sunshiny
adj. abounding with sunlight; "a bright sunny day"; "one shining morning"- John Muir; "when it is warm and shiny"
agreeable, amiable, good-humored, good-humoured, likable, likeable
adj. disposed to please; "an amiable villain with a cocky sidelong grin"- Hal Hinson
sullen
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