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| Main Entry: | bleak |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | barren |
| Synonyms: | austere, bare, blank, burned, chilly, cleared, cold, desert, deserted, desolate, dreary, exposed, flat, gaunt, grim, open, raw, stripped, unsheltered, weather-beaten, wild, blighted, bombed, bulldozed, deforested, scorched, unpopulated, windswept |
| Antonyms: | appealing, bright, comfortable, nice, pleasant, sunny |
| Main Entry: | bleak |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressing |
| Synonyms: | black, cheerless, dark, discouraging, dismal, dreary, funereal, gloomy, grim, hard, harsh, hopeless, joyless, lonely, melancholy, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, comfortless, disheartening, drear, unpromising |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, comforting, congenial, encouraging, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | cheerless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressing, unhappy |
| Synonyms: | austere, black, bleak, blue, dark, dejected, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dolorous, drab, dreary, dull, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, grim, jarring, joyless, melancholy, miserable, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, sorrowful, sullen, uncomfortable, wintry, woebegone, woeful, comfortless, dejecting, dispiriting, draggy, drearisome, in the dumps, mopey, tenebrific |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, uplifting |
| Main Entry: | dejected |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, blue |
| Synonyms: | abject, black, bleak, cheerless, crestfallen, despondent, disconsolate, discouraged, dismal, dispirited, doleful, down, down in the mouth*, downcast, downhearted, drooping, droopy, gloomy, glum, heavyhearted, low, low-spirited, melancholy, miserable, moody, morose, sad, spiritless, woebegone, wretched, all torn up, atrabilious, broody, bummed out, cast down, clouded, dampened, dashed, disheartened, down in the dumps, dragged, hurting, in the pits, mopey, mopish, sagging, shot down |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, encouraged, happy, joyous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | depressing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | discouraging, upsetting |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, dismal, distressing, dreary, funereal, gloomy, heartbreaking, hopeless, joyless, melancholy, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, daunting, dejecting, disheartening, dispiriting, melancholic, saddening |
| Antonyms: | cheering, encouraging, happy |
| Main Entry: | discouraging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upsetting |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, depressing, deterring, disadvantageous, disappointing, dismal, dreary, gloomy, inopportune, oppressive, unfavorable, unpropitious, dampening, daunting, depressive, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, dissuading, hindering, off-putting, repressing |
| Antonyms: | auspicious, encouraging, favorable, inspiring, heartening, inspiriting |
| Main Entry: | dour |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, grim |
| Synonyms: | bleak, dismal, dreary, forbidding, glum, hard, harsh, morose, saturnine, severe, sour, stringent, sulky, sullen, surly, ugly, unfriendly, crabbed |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, cheery, happy |
| Main Entry: | drab |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, colorless |
| Synonyms: | arid, blah*, bleak, boring, brown, cheerless, desolate, dingy, dismal, dreary, dry, faded, flat, gloomy, gray, grungy, lackluster, muddy, murky, run-down, same, shabby, somber, unchanging, uninspired, vapid, zero*, characterless, dull as dishwater, lusterless, subfuse |
| Antonyms: | bright, colorful, inspired |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dreary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, lifeless |
| Synonyms: | black, blah, bleak, boring, cheerless, colorless, damp, depressing, dingy, dismal, doleful, downcast, drab, dull, forlorn, funereal, glum, humdrum, joyless, lonely, lonesome, melancholy, monotonous, mournful, oppressive, pedestrian, raw, routine, sad, somber, sorrowful, tedious, uneventful, uninteresting, wearisome, windy, wintry, wretched, comfortless, depressive, dispiriting |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, happy, light, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | dusky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark-hued; murky |
| Synonyms: | bleak, brunette, cheerless, cloudy, dark, desolate, dim, dismal, dull, funereal, gloomy, joyless, obscure, overcast, sable, shadowy, shady, swarthy, tenebrous, twilight, veiled, adusk, bistered, caliginous, crepuscular, dark-complexioned, darkish, lightless, swart, twilit, unilluminated |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, light |
| Main Entry: | funereal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressing |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, dark, dismal, doleful, dreary, elegiac, gloomy, grave, grim, lamenting, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, oppressive, sad, sepulchral, serious, solemn, somber, woeful, deathlike, dirgelike, disheartening |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, joyful, lively, upbeat |
| Main Entry: | gaunt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | skinny |
| Synonyms: | angular, anorexic, bare, bleak, bony, cadaverous, desolate, dismal, dreary, emaciated, forbidding, forlorn, grim, haggard, harsh, lean, meager, peaked, rawboned, scrawny, skeleton, spare, thin, wasted, attenuated, lank, like a bag of bones, peaky, pinched, scraggy, skeletal, skin and bones |
| Antonyms: | plump, thick, well-nourished |
| Main Entry: | grim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance |
| Synonyms: | austere, barbarous, bleak, cantankerous, churlish, cruel, crusty, dogged, ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding, formidable, frightful, funereal, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grisly, grouchy, gruesome, grumpy*, harsh, hideous, implacable, inexorable, intractable, merciless, morose, ominous, relentless, resolute, ruthless, severe, shocking, sinister, somber, sour, stern, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, truculent, unrelenting, unyielding, crabbed, glowering, horrid, scowling, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, hopeful, joyful, sunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | joyless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhappy |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, blue, cheerless, dejected, depressant, depressed, depressing, dismal, dispirited, doleful, down in the mouth*, downcast, dreary, droopy, gloomy, heavy*, low, melancholy, miserable, mournful, sad, somber, dispiriting, dragged, have the blahs, melancholic, mopey, saddening |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, delighted, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pessimistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expecting bad outcome |
| Synonyms: | bleak, cynical, dark, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, discouraged, distrustful, downhearted, foreboding, gloomy, glum, hopeless, melancholy, misanthropic, morbid, morose, resigned, sad, sullen, troubled, worried, fatalistic |
| Antonyms: | confident, optimistic, trusting |
| Main Entry: | sepulchral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, cheerless, dark, deathly, dismal, dreary, forlorn, funereal, grave, hollow, morbid, mournful, obscure, somber |
| Main Entry: | somber |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sad, depressing |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, blue*, cloudy, dark, dim, dingy, dire, dismal, doleful, down, drab, dreary, dull, dusky, earnest, funereal, gloomy, grave, grim, joyless, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, murky, no-nonsense, obscure, sedate, sepulchral, serious, shadowy, shady, sober, solemn, sourpuss, staid, tenebrous, weighty, caliginous, depressive, dispiriting, dragged, hurting |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sterile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unproductive, clean |
| Synonyms: | antiseptic, arid, aseptic, bare, barren, bleak, dead, desert, desolate, dry, effete, empty, fallow, fruitless, futile, gaunt, hygienic, impotent, infertile, sanitary, sterilized, unfruitful, unprofitable, vain, waste, decontaminated, disinfected, germ-free, infecund, pasteurized, septic, uninfected, unprolific, without issue |
| Antonyms: | dirty, fruitful, productive |
| Main Entry: | wintry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cold, snowy |
| Synonyms: | biting, bleak, chilly, cutting, desolate, dismal, freezing, frigid, frosty, frozen, harsh, icy, raw, snappy, brumal, hibernal, hiemal, icebox, three-dog night |
| Antonyms: | hot, summery |
| Main Entry: | woebegone |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, troubled |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, blue*, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, dreary, forlorn, gloomy, grief-stricken, grim, hangdog*, low, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, mournful, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, woeful, wretched, bummed out, chapfallen, down-in-the-mouth, hurting, in pain, long-faced, shot down |
| Antonyms: | enthused, excited, happy, untroubled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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