| Main Entry: | dour |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, grim |
Synonyms: |
bleak, crabbed, dismal, dreary, forbidding, glum, hard, harsh, morose, saturnine, severe, sour, stringent, sulky, sullen, surly, ugly, unfriendly |
Antonyms: |
bright, cheerful, cheery, happy |
| Main Entry: | austere |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grim, barren |
Synonyms: |
bald, bare, bare-bones, bleak, clean, dour, plain, primitive, rustic, severe, simple, spare, spartan, stark, subdued, unadorned, unembellished, vanilla |
Antonyms: |
extravagant, luxurious |
| Main Entry: | cantankerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, crabby |
Synonyms: |
bad-tempered, bearish, captious, choleric, contrary, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety, crusty, disagreeable, dour, grouchy, grumpy*, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, irascible, irritable, morose, obstinate, ornery*, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, snappish, sour, stuffy, testy, vinegarish, vinegary |
Antonyms: |
easy, good-natured, happy, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | churlish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, boorish |
Synonyms: |
base, blunt, brusque, cantankerous*, cloddish, clodhopping, crabbed, crude, crusty, curt, cussed, discourteous, dour, grouchy, gruff, grumpy, harsh, ill-tempered, impolite, loutish, lowbred, mean, miserly, morose, oafish, ornery*, rude, rustic, snippy, sullen, surly, touchy*, ugly, uncivil, uncivilized, uncultured, unmannerly, unneighborly, unpolished, unsociable, vulgar |
Antonyms: |
gentle, nice, pleasant, polite |
| Main Entry: | crabby/crabbed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a bad mood |
Synonyms: |
acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky*, cross, crotchety, crusty, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy, harsh, huffy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, misanthropic, morose, nasty-tempered, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, snappy, sour, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable |
Antonyms: |
happy |
| Main Entry: | crusty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, often due to old age |
Synonyms: |
abrupt, bluff, blunt, brief, brusque, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, curt, dour, gruff, harsh, ill-humored, irascible, peevish, prickly, sarcastic, saturnine, scornful, short, short-tempered, snappish, snarling, snippety, snippy, splenetic, surly, testy, touchy, vinegary |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, happy, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry, upset |
Synonyms: |
dour, forbidding, frowning, glowering, glum, ominous, scowling, sulky, sullen, threatening |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, happy, pleased |
| Main Entry: | forbidding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ominous, daunting |
Synonyms: |
abhorrent, disagreeable, dour, foreboding, frightening, glowering, grim, hostile, menacing, odious, off-putting, offensive, repellent, repulsive, sinister, threatening, tough, ugly, unapproachable, unfriendly, unpleasant |
| Notes: | forbidding means harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance, while foreboding is a feeling of evil to come |
Antonyms: |
approachable, friendly, undaunting |
| Main Entry: | gloomy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | feeling down, blue |
Synonyms: |
blue funk, broody, chapfallen, cheerless, crabbed, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, dour, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, dragged, forlorn, glum, in low spirits, in the dumps, joyless, low, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, moody, moping, mopish, morose, mournful, oppressed, pessimistic, sad, saturnine, solemn, sulky, sullen, surly, ugly, unhappy, weary, woebegone, woeful |
Antonyms: |
animated, cheerful, content, encouraged, happy, joyful, sparkling, vivacious |
| Main Entry: | grave |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | serious; gloomy |
Synonyms: |
cold sober, deadpan, dignified, dour, dull, earnest, grim, grim-faced, heavy, leaden, long-faced, meaningful, muted, no-nonsense, ponderous, quiet, sad, sage, saturnine, sedate, sober, solemn, somber, staid, strictly business, subdued, thoughtful, unsmiling |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, frivolous, funny, happy, ridiculous, silly |