| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Dark and depressing: black, bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, desolate, dreary, gloomy, glum, joyless, somber, tenebrific. See HAPPY, LIGHT. 2. Marked by little hopefulness: dark, gloomy, pessimistic. See HAPPY, HOPE. 3. Tending to cause sadness or low spirits: blue, cheerless, depressing, dispiriting, gloomy, joyless, melancholy, sad. See HAPPY.
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