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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. In low spirits: dejected, depressed, desolate, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, dull, dysphoric, gloomy, heavy-hearted, low, melancholic, melancholy, sad, spiritless, tristful, unhappy, wistful. Idioms: down at (or in) the mouth. See HAPPY. 2. Dark and depressing: black, bleak, cheerless, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, gloomy, glum, joyless, somber, tenebrific. See HAPPY, LIGHT. 3. Bordering on indelicacy or impropriety: earthy, off-color, provocative, racy, risqué, salty, scabrous, spicy, suggestive. See DECENT. 4. Tending to cause sadness or low spirits: cheerless, depressing, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, joyless, melancholy, sad. See HAPPY.
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