| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless |
Synonyms: |
atrocious, bleak, depressing, depressive, dismal, dispiriting, distressing, doleful, dreary, foreboding, funereal, gloomy, horrible, lugubrious, mournful, ominous, oppressive, sad, sinister, sombre, threatening |
Antonyms: |
hopeful, optimistic |
| Main Entry: | discouraging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upsetting |
Synonyms: |
black, bleak, dampening, daunting, depressing, depressive, deterring, disadvantageous, disappointing, disheartening, dismal, dismaying, dispiriting, dissuading, dreary, gloomy, hindering, inopportune, off-putting, oppressive, repressing, unfavorable, unpropitious |
Antonyms: |
auspicious, encouraging, favorable, heartening, inspiring, inspiriting |
| Main Entry: | dreary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, lifeless |
Synonyms: |
black, blah, bleak, boring, cheerless, colorless, comfortless, damp, depressing, depressive, dingy, dismal, dispiriting, 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 |
Antonyms: |
bright, clear, happy, light, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | gloomy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sad, depressing |
Synonyms: |
acheronian, acherontic, bad, black, bleak, cheerless, cold, comfortless, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, drab, dreary, dull, dusky, funereal, joyless, lugubrious, morose, oppressive, saddening, somber, tenebrific |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, encouraging, exhilarating, happy, uplifting |
| Main Entry: | oppressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overwhelming, repressive |
Synonyms: |
backbreaking, bleak, brutal, burdensome, confining, cruel, demanding, depressing, depressive, despotic, dictatorial, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, exacting, exigent, gloomy, grievous, grinding, harsh, headache, heavy, heavy-handed, hefty, inhuman, ironhanded, mean, onerous, overbearing, rough going, severe, somber, superincumbent, taxing, tough, troublesome, tyrannical, unjust, weighty |
Antonyms: |
calm, gentle, relieving |
| Main Entry: | somber |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sad, depressing |
Synonyms: |
black, bleak, blue*, caliginous, cloudy, dark, depressive, dim, dingy, dire, dismal, dispiriting, doleful, down, drab, dragged, dreary, dull, dusky, earnest, funereal, gloomy, grave, grim, hurting, joyless, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, murky, no-nonsense, obscure, sedate, sepulchral, serious, shadowy, shady, sober, solemn, sourpuss, staid, tenebrous, weighty |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, happy, joyful |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
black, gray, atramental, atramentous, 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, 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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