Nearby Words
sullen
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, touchy |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabbed, cranky*, cross, crotchety, edgy, exasperated, fretful, grouchy, grumpy*, impatient, irascible, mean, ornery*, out of sorts, peevish, peppery, petulant, quarrelsome, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappy, splenetic, sullen, thin-skinned, uptight*, waspish |
| Antonyms: | happy, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | crabby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable |
| Synonyms: | acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, chuffy, churlish, crabbed, cranky, cross, crotchety, crusty, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy, harsh, huffy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, irascible, misanthropic, morose, mumpish, nasty-tempered, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, sour, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable |
| Antonyms: | amiable, good-humored, good-natured, happy, pleasant, sweet |
| Main Entry: | roiled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | turbid |
| Synonyms: | blurred, cloudy, confused, dark, dense, dim, dismal, dull, dusky, emulsified, foggy, gloomy, heavy*, indefinite, indistinct, leaden, lowering, misty, mucky, muddy, murky, mushy, nebulous, nontranslucent, nontransparent, not clear, nubilous, obscure, opaque, overcast, roily, somber, sullen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | roily |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | turbid |
| Synonyms: | blurred, cloudy, confused, dark, dense, dim, dismal, dull, dusky, emulsified, foggy, gloomy, heavy*, indefinite, indistinct, leaden, lowering, misty, mucky, muddy, murky, mushy, nebulous, nontranslucent, nontransparent, not clear, nubilous, obscure, opaque, overcast, roiled, somber, sullen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | smoggy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | turbid |
| Synonyms: | blurred, confused, dark, dense, dim, dismal, dull, dusky, emulsified, foggy, gloomy, hazy, heavy*, indefinite, indistinct, leaden, lowering, misty, mucky, muddy, murky, mushy, nebulous, nontranslucent, nontransparent, not clear, nubilous, obscure, opaque, overcast, somber, sullen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tenebrific |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, blue funk, blue*, broody, chapfallen, cheerless, crabbed, crestfallen, dark, dejected, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, dour, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, dragged, dreary, forlorn, glum, in low spirits, in the dumps, joyless, low, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, moody, moping, mopish, morose, mournful, oppressed, pessimistic, sad, saturnine, solemn, somber, sulky, sullen, surly, ugly*, unhappy, weary, woebegone, woeful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tetchy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | testy |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabbed, cranky*, cross, crotchety, edgy, exasperated, fretful, grouchy, grumpy*, impatient, irascible, mean, ornery*, out of sorts, peevish, peppery, petulant, quarrelsome, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappy, splenetic, sullen, thin-skinned, touchy, uptight*, waspish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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Adjectives: |
atramental, atramentous, black, black as November, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as jet, black as midnight, black as my hat, black as thunder, brunette, coal, dingy, dusky, ebon, ebony, ethiopic, fuliginous, gray, inky, jet, murky, nigrescent, nocturnal, obscure, of the deepest dye, perse, pitchy, raven, sable, scoriac, somber, soot, sooty, suggilated, swart, swarthy, zibeline
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