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| Main Entry: | cadaverous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, corpselike |
| Synonyms: | ashen, blanched, bloodless, consumptive, dead, deathly, emaciated, gaunt, ghastly, ghostly, haggard, pallid, peaked, sallow, shadowy, sick, spectral, thin, wan, wasted, bag of bones, deathlike, exsanguinous, peaky, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin and bones |
| Antonyms: | flushed, lifelike, lively |
| Main Entry: | dismal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleak, dreary, gloomy |
| Synonyms: | black, boring, cheerless, cloudy, dark, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dim, dingy, disagreeable, discouraging, doleful, dolorous, dull, forlorn, frowning, funereal, ghastly, gruesome, hopeless, horrible, inauspicious, joyless, lonesome, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, monotonous, morbid, murky, oppressive, overcast, sad, shadowy, somber, sorrowful, tedious, tenebrous, troublesome, unfortunate, unhappy, afflictive, disheartening, dispiriting, horrid, in the pits |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, glad, happy, hopeful, light, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | dreamy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusory, romantic |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, astral, calming, chimerical, daydreaming, excellent, fanciful, fantastic, gentle, idealistic, imaginary, immaterial, impractical, intangible, introspective, marvelous, misty, musing, mythical, nightmarish, otherworldly, out of this world, pensive, preoccupied, quixotic, shadowy, soothing, speculative, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, vague, visionary, whimsical, introvertive, lulling, phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, relaxing |
| Antonyms: | horrible, terrible, unromantic |
| 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: | fanciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, romantic |
| Synonyms: | absurd, aerial, bizarre, capricious, chimerical, curious, dreamlike, extravagant, fabulous, fantastic, fictitious, flaky*, floating, ideal, illusory, imaginative, imagined, incredible, kinky*, legendary, mythical, offbeat, on cloud nine*, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, poetic, preposterous, shadowy, unreal, visionary, whimsical, wild, blue sky, castles in the air, fairy-tale, fancied, fantastical, fictional, fictive, notional, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | grave, ordinary, real, serious, sincere, unimaginative, unfanciful, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ghostly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spooky |
| Synonyms: | cadaverous, divine, eerie, ghastly, haunted, holy, illusory, insubstantial, pale, phantom, scary, shadowy, spectral, spiritual, supernatural, uncanny, unearthly, wan, weird, apparitional, corpselike, deathlike, eidolic, ghostlike, phantasmal, vampiric, wraithlike, wraithy |
| Main Entry: | hidden |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unseen, secret |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, clandestine, cloaked, close, concealed, covered, covert, cryptic, dark, disguised, esoteric, hermetic, in the dark, indiscernible, invisible, latent, masked, mysterious, mystic, mystical, obscure, occult, private, recondite, secluded, shadowy, surreptitious, ulterior, undercover, underground, undisclosed, unknown, veiled, withheld, QT, buried, clouded, eclipsed, hermetical, imperceivable, out of view, screened, sequestered, shrouded, undetected, unexposed, unrevealed |
| Antonyms: | bare, exhibited, exposed, open, out, showing, uncovered, seen |
| Main Entry: | imaginary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious, invented |
| Synonyms: | abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimerical, deceptive, delusive, dreamed-up, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, figmental, fool's paradise, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusive, illusory, imaginative, imagined, legendary, made-up, mythological, nonexistent, notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, quixotic, shadowy, spectral, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, trumped up*, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, whimsical |
| Notes: | imaginary means not based on fact while imaginative means marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
| Antonyms: | existing, factual, genuine, physical, real, substantial, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impalpable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intangible, unsubstantial |
| Synonyms: | airy, delicate, fine, imperceptible, incorporeal, indiscernible, indistinct, insensible, insubstantial, nebulous, shadowy, tenuous, thin, vague, disembodied, imponderable, imprecise, inappreciable, unapparent, unobservable, unperceivable |
| Antonyms: | palpable, perceptible, substantial, tangible, understandable, believeable |
| Main Entry: | imperceptible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard to sense; faint |
| Synonyms: | ephemeral, evanescent, fine, gradual, impalpable, inaudible, inconspicuous, indiscernible, indistinct, indistinguishable, infinitesimal, insensible, insignificant, invisible, microscopic, minute, momentary, shadowy, slight, small, subtle, tiny, trivial, vague, imponderable, inappreciable, inconsiderable, undetectable, unnoticeable |
| Antonyms: | apparent, conspicuous, distinct, evident, noticeable, obvious, perceptible, striking, seeable, unobscured |
| Main Entry: | indefinite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ambiguous, vague |
| Synonyms: | broad, confused, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, evasive, general, ill-defined, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, inexhaustible, infinite, innumerable, intangible, loose, obscure, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undependable, undetermined, unknown, unlimited, unsettled, unsure, wide, imprecise, indeterminable, unfixed, unspecific |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, distinct, sure |
| Main Entry: | indistinct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obscure, ambiguous |
| Synonyms: | bleary, confused, dark, dim, doubtful, faint, fuzzy, hazy, ill-defined, inaudible, inconspicuous, indefinite, indeterminate, indiscernible, indistinguishable, inexact, misty, muffled, murky, shadowy, unclear, undefined, undetermined, unheard, unintelligible, vague, weak, bleared, blurred, out of focus |
| Antonyms: | apparent, certain, definite, discernible, distinct, evident, explicit, plain, positive, sure, defined |
| Main Entry: | intangible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indefinite, obscured |
| Synonyms: | abstract, abstruse, airy, dim, elusive, ethereal, evanescent, evasive, hypothetical, impalpable, imperceptible, incorporeal, indeterminate, insensible, invisible, rare, shadowy, slender, slight, uncertain, unreal, unsubstantial, unsure, vague, eluding, evading, imponderable, inappreciable, unapparent, unobservable |
| Antonyms: | definite, obvious, palpable, perceptible, tangible |
| Main Entry: | nebulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused, obscure |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, amorphous, cloudy, dark, dim, hazy, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, misty, murky, shadowy, shapeless, uncertain, unclear, unformed, vague, imprecise |
| Antonyms: | apparent, definite, obvious, plain |
| Main Entry: | nonexistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictional, not real |
| Synonyms: | absent, airy, baseless, blank, chimerical, dead, defunct, departed, dreamlike, dreamy, empty, ethereal, extinct, flimsy, gone, groundless, hypothetical, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, insubstantial, legendary, lost, missing, mythical, negative, null, null and void*, shadowy, tenuous, unreal, unsubstantial, vacant, vague, vaporous, void, extinguished, fancied, few and far between, gossamery, hallucinatory, imponderable, passed away, passed on, perished, ungrounded, without foundation |
| Antonyms: | actual, existing, real, true, existent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | spectral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ghostly |
| Synonyms: | eerie, haunted, illusory, phantom, scary, shadowy, spiritual, spooky, supernatural, apparitional, phantasmal |
| Main Entry: | tenebrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark, ominous |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, dim, dingy, dusk, dusky, equivocal, gloomy, murky, obscure, shadowy, shady, somber, sunless, uncertain, unclear, unintelligible, vague, amphibological, caliginous, lightless, unexplicit, unilluminated, unlit |
| Antonyms: | inviting, light |
| Main Entry: | vague |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not definite or clear |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, amorphous, bleary, cloudy, dark, dim, doubtful, dreamlike, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, faint, fuzzy, hazy, ill-defined, impalpable, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, inexplicable, lax, loose, misunderstood, muddy, nebulous, obscure, perplexing, problematic, puzzling, questionable, shadowy, superficial, tenebrous, uncertain, unclear, undetermined, unintelligible, unknown, unsettled, unspecified, unsure, amphibological, bewildering, blurred, generalized, imprecise, unexplicit |
| Antonyms: | certain, clear, definite, sure |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark, inky |
| Synonyms: | coal, dingy, dusky, ebony, jet, livid, murky, pitch, sable, shadowy, slate, somber, sooty, swarthy, atramentous, brunet, charcoal, clouded, ebon, inklike, melanoid, obsidian, onyx, piceous, pitch-dark, raven, sloe, sombre, starless, stygian, swart |
| Antonyms: | white |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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