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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry, upset |
| Synonyms: | dour, forbidding, frowning, glowering, glum, ominous, scowling, sulky, sullen, threatening |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, pleased |
| Main Entry: | grim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance |
| Synonyms: | austere, barbarous, bleak, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, cruel, crusty, dogged, ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding, formidable, frightful, funereal, ghastly, gloomy, glowering, glum, grisly, grouchy, gruesome, grumpy*, harsh, hideous, horrid, implacable, inexorable, intractable, merciless, morose, ominous, relentless, resolute, ruthless, scowling, severe, shocking, sinister, somber, sour, splenetic, stern, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, truculent, unrelenting, unyielding |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, hopeful, joyful, sunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | murky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, obscure |
| Synonyms: | black, caliginous, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkened, dim, dingy, dirty, dismal, drab, dreary, dull, dun, dusk, dusky, filthy, foggy, foul, fuzzy, glowering, gray, grubby, impenetrable, lowering, misty, mucky, muddy, nasty, nebulous, nubilous, overcast, roily, sad, smoky, somber, squalid, stormy, tenebrous, turbid, unclean |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, light, luminous, sparkling, unobscured |
| Main Entry: | sullen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brooding, upset |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, cheerless, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cross, cynical, dismal, dour, dull, fretful, frowning, gloomy, glowering, glum, gruff, grumpy*, heavy, hostile, ill-humored, inert, irritable, malevolent, malicious, malign, mean, moody, morose, obstinate, ornery*, out of sorts, peevish, perverse, pessimistic, petulant, pouting, pouty, querulous, saturnine, silent, somber, sour, sourpussed, stubborn, sulking, sulky, surly, tenebrific, tenebrous, ugly, unsociable, uptight* |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, grinning, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frowning |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scowling |
| Synonyms: | glowering, grim, irritable, sulky |
| Main Entry: | unhospitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | forbidding |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, disagreeable, dour, foreboding, frightening, glowering, grim, hostile, inhospitable, menacing, odious, off-putting, offensive, repellent, repulsive, sinister, threatening, tough*, ugly*, unapproachable, unfriendly, uninviting, unpleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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