| Main Entry: | saturnine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy |
Synonyms: |
blue*, cheerless, dejected, depressed, desolate, despondent, dispirited, dour, down, down in the dumps, forlorn, glum, grave, hopeless, in low spirits, in the dumps, low, melancholy, miserable, moping, morose, sad, solemn, sorrowful, sulky, sullen, unhappy, woebegone, woeful |
| 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: | 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | gruff |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad-tempered, rude |
Synonyms: |
abrupt, bearish, blunt, boisterous, boorish, brusque, churlish, crabbed, crabby, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, dour, fierce, grouchy, grumpy*, ill-natured, impolite, morose, nasty, offhand, rough, saturnine, short, snappy, snippy, sour, sullen, surly, truculent, uncivil, ungracious, unmannerly |
Antonyms: |
even-tempered, happy, nice, polite |
| Main Entry: | moody |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crabby, temperamental |
Synonyms: |
angry, cantankerous, capricious, changeable, crabbed, crestfallen, cross, dismal, doleful, dour, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, erratic, fickle, fitful, flighty, frowning, gloomy, glum, huffy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, impulsive, in a huff, in the doldrums, introspective, irascible, irritable, lugubrious, melancholy, mercurial, miserable, moping, morose, offended, out of sorts, pensive, petulant, piqued, sad, saturnine, short-tempered, splenetic, sulky, sullen, testy, touchy |
Antonyms: |
balanced, cheerful, happy, overjoyed |
| Main Entry: | morbid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, nasty, sickly |
Synonyms: |
aberrant, abnormal, ailing, brooding, dark, deadly, depressed, despondent, diseased, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrid, infected, irascible, macabre, malignant, melancholy, monstrous, moody, pessimistic, saturnine, sick, somber, sullen, unhealthy, unnatural, unsound, unusual, unwholesome |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, happy, healthy, pleased, sound |
| Main Entry: | morose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, pessimistic |
Synonyms: |
acrimonious, blue*, brusque, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cranky*, cross, dolorous, dour, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, frowning, gloomy, glum, grouchy, gruff, harsh, having blue devils, having the blahs, ill-humored, ill-tempered, in a bad mood, in a blue funk, irritable, low, melancholy, moody, moping, mournful, perverse, perversive, sad, saturnine, singing the blues, snappish, sour, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, taciturn, testy, troubled, ugly |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, friendly, happy, light-hearted, optimistic, uplifted |