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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleak, dreary, gloomy |
| Synonyms: | afflictive, black, boring, cheerless, cloudy, dark, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dim, dingy, disagreeable, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, doleful, dolorous, dull, forlorn, frowning, funereal, ghastly, gruesome, hopeless, horrible, horrid, in the pits, inauspicious, joyless, lonesome, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, monotonous, morbid, murky, oppressive, overcast, sad, shadowy, somber, sorrowful, tedious, tenebrous, troublesome, unfortunate, unhappy |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, glad, happy, hopeful, light, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | joyless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhappy |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, blue, cheerless, dejected, depressant, depressed, depressing, dismal, dispirited, dispiriting, doleful, down in the mouth, downcast, dragged, dreary, droopy, gloomy, have the blahs, heavy*, low, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, mopey, mournful, sad, saddening, somber |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, delighted, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oppressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overwhelming, repressive |
| Synonyms: | backbreaking, bleak, brutal, burdensome, confining, cruel, demanding, depressing, depressive, despotic, dictatorial, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, exacting, exigent, gloomy, grievous, grinding, harsh, headache, heavy, heavy-handed, hefty, inhuman, ironhanded, mean, onerous, overbearing, rough going, severe, somber, superincumbent, taxing, tough, troublesome, tyrannical, unjust, weighty |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, relieving |
| Main Entry: | sad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, distressing |
| Synonyms: | bad, calamitous, dark, dejecting, deplorable, depressing, disastrous, discomposing, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, dreary, funereal, grave, grievous, hapless, heart-rending, joyless, lachrymose, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholic, miserable, moving, oppressive, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poignant, regrettable, saddening, serious, shabby, sorry, tear-jerking, tearful, tragic, unhappy, unsatisfactory, upsetting, wretched |
| Antonyms: | fortunate, great, happy, lucky |
| Main Entry: | stark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bare, unadorned |
| Synonyms: | au naturel, austere, bald, barren, bleak, chaste, clear, cold, depressing, desolate, dreary, empty, forsaken, grim, harsh, naked, nude, plain, raw, severe, solitary, stripped, unclad, unclothed, uncovered, undraped, vacant, vacuous, void |
| Antonyms: | clothed, covered |
| Main Entry: | uninteresting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boring, uneventful |
| Synonyms: | arid, banal, big yawn, bromidic, common, commonplace, depressing, dismal, drab, dreary, dry, dull, dusty, fatiguing, flat, ho hum, humdrum, insipid, irksome, jejune, monotonous, nothing*, nowhere, pedestrian, prosaic, prosy, soporific, stale, stupid, tedious, tired, tiresome, trite, unenjoyable, unentertaining, unexciting, uninspiring, wearisome |
| Antonyms: | eventful, exciting, interesting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disappointing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsatisfactory |
| Synonyms: | bitter, depressing, disagreeable, disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, displeasing, distasteful, failing, falling short, frustrating, inadequate, ineffective, inferior, insufficient, lame, mediocre, unfulfilling, unhappy, uninteresting, unpleasant, unsatisfying |
| Antonyms: | encouraging, pleasing, satisfactory |
| Main Entry: | disturbing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disquieting |
| Synonyms: | aggravating, agitating, alarming, annoying, bothersome, burdensome, consequential, creepy, depressing, difficult, disagreeable, discomforting, discommoding, discomposing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, distressing, embarrassing, foreboding, frightening, gloomy, harassing, hard, impeding, inconvenient, irksome, irritating, laborious, ominous, onerous, painful, perplexing, perturbing, pessimistic, prophetic, provoking, severe, sinister, startling, threatening, tiresome, toilsome, troublesome, troubling, trying, uncertain, unpleasant, unsettling, upsetting, vexing, wearisome, worrisome, worrying |
| Main Entry: | lugubrious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | melancholy |
| Synonyms: | bleak, depressing, dismal, doleful, dour, funeral, gloomy, morose, mournful, sad, sorrowful, woebegone, woful |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, joyful |
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