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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | tenebrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark, ominous |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, amphibological, caliginous, dim, dingy, dusk, dusky, equivocal, gloomy, lightless, murky, obscure, shadowy, shady, somber, sunless, uncertain, unclear, unexplicit, unilluminated, unintelligible, unlit, vague |
| Antonyms: | inviting, light |
| Main Entry: | tawny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brownish |
| Synonyms: | beige, bronze, brown, dusky, olive, swarthy, tanned |
| Main Entry: | brunette |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dark |
| Synonyms: | bistered, brown, brunet, dusky, pigmented, swart, swarthy, tanned, tawny |
| Notes: | brunet(te) is seldom applied to males; brunette is a diminutive of French brun 'brown' |
| Antonyms: | blond, blonde |
| Main Entry: | gray |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silver |
| Synonyms: | ash, ashen, cinereal, clouded, dappled, dingy, dove, drab, dusky, dusty, grey, heather, iron, lead, leaden, livid, mousy, neutral, oyster, pearly, peppery, powder, sere, shaded, silvered, silvery, slate, smoky, somber, stone |
| Notes: | the distinction in spelling between British grey and American gray is recent, popping up in Samuel Johnson's dictionary |
| Main Entry: | sunless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark |
| Synonyms: | cloudy, dismal, dusky, gloomy, gray, overcast, rainy |
| Main Entry: | bistered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark |
| Synonyms: | bistred, brunet, dusky, yellowish-brown |
| Main Entry: | blackish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of darkest color |
| Synonyms: | black, dark, dusky, inky |
| Main Entry: | brunet |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark |
| Synonyms: | brunette, dusky, olive-skinned, swarthy, tanned |
| Notes: | brunet(te) is seldom applied to males; brunette is a diminutive of French brun 'brown' |
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