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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very dark in color |
| Synonyms: | black, dark, dusky, dusty, ebon, ebony, gloomy, inky, jet, jetty, murky, pitch-black, pitch-dark, raven, somber |
| Main Entry: | sick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | morbid, gross |
| Synonyms: | black, ghoulish, macabre, morose, sadistic, sickly |
| Antonyms: | clean, gentle, moral, nice |
| Main Entry: | smoky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazy, sooty |
| Synonyms: | begrimed, black, burning, caliginous, dingy, fumy, gray, grimy, messy, murky, reeking, silvery, smoke-colored, smoldering, thick, vaporous |
| Antonyms: | clean, clear, unpolluted |
| Main Entry: | somber |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sad, depressing |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, blue*, caliginous, cloudy, dark, depressive, dim, dingy, dire, dismal, dispiriting, doleful, down, drab, dragged, dreary, dull, dusky, earnest, funereal, gloomy, grave, grim, hurting, joyless, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, murky, no-nonsense, obscure, sedate, sepulchral, serious, shadowy, shady, sober, solemn, sourpuss, staid, tenebrous, weighty |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sordid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty, bad, low |
| Synonyms: | abject, avaricious, base, black, calculated, corrupt, covetous, debauched, degenerate, degraded, despicable, disreputable, dowdy, filthy, foul, grasping, grubby, ignoble, impure, low-down, mean, mercenary, miserable, miserly, nasty, poor, scurvy, seedy, self-seeking, selfish, servile, shabby, shameful, sleazy, slovenly, slum, slummy, small, small-minded, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, ungenerous, venal, vicious, vile, wretched |
| Antonyms: | good, honorable, reputable, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | swarthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark-complexioned |
| Synonyms: | black, brown, brunet, dark, dark-hued, dark-skinned, darkish, dusky, swart, tan, tawny |
| Antonyms: | blonde, fair, light, pale |
| Main Entry: | threatening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | menacing, ominous |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, alarming, apocalyptic, at hand, baleful, baneful, black, bullying, cautionary, close, comminatory, dangerous, dire, fateful, forthcoming, grim, ill-boding, imminent, impendent, impending, inauspicious, intimidatory, looming, loury, lowering, lowery, minacious, minatory, near, overhanging, portending, portentous, scowling, sinister, terrorizing, ugly, unlucky, unpropitious, unsafe, upcoming, warning |
| Antonyms: | nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | ugly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous, threatening |
| Synonyms: | angry, bellicose, black, cantankerous, crabbed, crabby, dark, disagreeable, dour, evil, fell, forbidding, formidable, gloomy, glum, grave, grievous, major, malevolent, menacing, morose, nasty, obnoxious, ominous, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rough, saturnine, scowling, serious, sinister, spiteful, sullen, surly, treacherous, truculent, vicious, violent, wicked |
| Antonyms: | delicate, gentle, safe |
| Main Entry: | unclean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty |
| Synonyms: | bedraggled, befouled, besmirched, black, blurred, common, contaminated, corrupt, decayed, defiled, desecrated, dusty, evil, feculent, fetid, filthy, foul, grimy, impure, messy, muddy, nasty, polluted, profaned, putrescent, putrid, rancid, rank, rotten, sloppy, slovenly, smeared, smudged, soiled, sooty, sordid, spotted, squalid, stable, stained, stale, stinking, sullied, tainted, tarnished, unhealthful, vile |
| Antonyms: | clean, hygienic, uncontaminated, unpolluted |
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