Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying, dreadful; pale |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, anemic, appalling, ashen, awful, bloodless, cadaverous, corpselike, deathlike, dim, disgusting, faint, frightening, frightful, funereal, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, haggard, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, livid, loathsome, lurid, macabre, mortuary, nauseating, offensive, pallid, repellent, repulsive, sepulchral, shocking, sickening, spectral, supernatural, terrible, terrifying, uncanny, unearthly, unnatural, unpleasant, wan, weak, wraithlike |
| Antonyms: | delightful, pleasant, pleasing, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | ashen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gray |
| Synonyms: | anemic, blanched, cadaverous, colorless, ghastly, gray, leaden, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, wan, white |
| Main Entry: | awful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad; terrible |
| Synonyms: | abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, deplorable, depressing, dire, disgusting, distressing, dreadful, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grody, gross*, gruesome, grungy, harrowing, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, nasty, offensive, raunchy, repulsive, shocking, stinking, synthetic, tough, ugly, unpleasant, unsightly |
| Antonyms: | beautiful, good, ok, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cadaverous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, corpselike |
| Synonyms: | ashen, bag of bones, blanched, bloodless, consumptive, dead, deathlike, deathly, emaciated, exsanguinous, gaunt, ghastly, ghostly, haggard, pallid, peaked, peaky, sallow, shadowy, sick, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin and bones, spectral, thin, wan, wasted |
| Antonyms: | flushed, lifelike, lively |
| Main Entry: | colorless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without hue |
| Synonyms: | achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bleached, cadaverous, doughy, drab, dull, faded, flat, ghastly, livid, lurid, neutral, pale, sickly, uncolored, wan, washed out, waxen, white |
| Antonyms: | brilliant, colored, colorful, motley, rich, stimulating, vibrant, vivid |
| Main Entry: | deadly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ghostly |
| Synonyms: | ashen, corpselike, dead, deadened, deathful, deathlike, deathly, ghastly, pallid, wan, white |
| Notes: | deadly means causing or capable of causing death while deathly means having the physical appearance of death |
| Antonyms: | lively |
| Main Entry: | deathly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suggesting end of life |
| Synonyms: | appalling, cadaverous, corpselike, deathlike, defunctive, dreadful, gaunt, ghastly, grim, gruesome, haggard, horrible, macabre, pale, pallid, wan, wasted |
| Notes: | deadly means causing or capable of causing death while deathly means having the physical appearance of death |
| Antonyms: | animated, beginning, blooming, blossoming, lively |
| Main Entry: | direful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fearful; horrible |
| Synonyms: | apocalyptic, appalling, awful, baleful, baneful, calamitous, dreadful, fateful, ghastly, gloomy, horrid, ill-boding, inauspicious, ominous, shocking, terrible, terrific, unlucky, unpropitious |
| Antonyms: | good, nice |
| Main Entry: | disgusting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickening; repulsive |
| Synonyms: | abominable, awful, beastly, cloying, creepy, detestable, distasteful, foul, frightful, ghastly, grody, gross*, gruesome, hateful, hideous, horrid, horrific, icky, loathsome, lousy, macabre, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nerdy, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, repellent, repugnant, revolting, rotten, satiating, scandalous, scuzzy, shameless, shocking, sleazeball, sleazy*, stinking, surfeiting, vile, vulgar, yecchy, yucky |
| Antonyms: | attractive, desirous, pleasant, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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