Concept cluster: Negative qualities > Desolation or gloominess
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(obsolete) Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren.
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(figuratively, said about the elements, like the sky or the sea) Dark and stormy, menacing.
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stiflingly
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Characterized by melancholy or glum; atrabilarious; atrabilious.
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Characterized by melancholy or gloom.
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Characterized by melancholy.
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Grim or severe in manner or appearance
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Bleak.
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(medicine, archaic, rare) A depressed state of mind.
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Cold, unpleasant, and from the east.
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(transitive) To make or render dumb, or mute.
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Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
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(euphemistic) depression, melancholy
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(of food) watery
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The bleak (fish).
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Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
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(idiomatic) low spirits; depression
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(colloquial) nervous depression
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(informal) A Monday on which an individual feels gloomy or depressed, especially because of having to return to work after the weekend.
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Melancholy.
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(figuratively) Somewhat depressed; sad.
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(figuratively) With a strong physical or psychological unpleasant effect.
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(informal) A temporary condition of not thinking clearly
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Gloomy.
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(idiomatic, dated) A melancholy mood accompanied by deep thought; a moody daydream.
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(slang) Depressed, disappointed, in a gloomy mood.
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(in the plural) A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach.
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Depression; melancholy.
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Devoid of cheer; gloomy.
n
A gloomy genre of Russian horror.
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Afflicted with a chilblain.
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pessimistic; doomsaying
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(figuratively) Despondent; dispirited, downcast.
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(obsolete) Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful.
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Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
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Bleak.
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Bleak
n
The side that is evil.
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In a dazed condition.
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funereal
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(music) Resembling a dirge: slow and depressing
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Sung as a dirge; sounding as a dirge.
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Like a dirge; funereal.
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Cheerless, dreary.
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(by extension) Anything dull and lacking interest or flavour.
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Depressing, dreary, cheerless.
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(derogatory) A melancholy or peevish person; a gloomy complainer.
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(idiomatic, sometimes derogatory, sometimes humorous, usually with "the") Economics or the field of political economy.
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(informal) A doleful feeling; the blues; the doldrums.
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doleful; dismal; gloomy
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Something considered indicative of feelings of pessimism and despair.
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Filled with doom and gloom: depressing or pessimistic
adj
Alternative form of dowf [Dull; flat; denoting a defect of spirit, animation, or courage; melancholy; gloomy; inactive; listless; lethargic; pithless; vapid; lacking force; frivolous.]
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Expressing gloom or melancholy.
n
covering sickness
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(idiomatic) Sad; lacking engagement or enthusiasm.
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Depressed or upset.
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Sad or pessimistic.
n
(obsolete) A melancholy look.
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(obsolete) Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen.
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Low-spirited; melancholy.
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(by extension) Particularly of colour: dull, uninteresting.
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pale, lacking color.
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(poetic, literary) Dreary.
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(obsolete) sadness; dreariness
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(archaic, poetic) affliction; dreariness
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(obsolete) dreariness
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Very dreary.
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Marked by dreariness; characteristically dreary.
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Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
n
(archaic, chiefly dialectal) Trouble, grief, suffering.
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(Northern England, Scotland, Northern Ireland) Bleak, miserable, dismal, cheerless, dreary.
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Obsolete spelling of dreary [Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.]
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(Scotland) Drear, dreary; dree.
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Amoral and savage, like a droog.
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Dull; stupid.
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(simile) Very dull or boring.
v
(transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
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(simile) Boring; ordinary; exceedingly dull.
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(simile) Alternative form of dull as dishwater [(simile) Boring; ordinary; exceedingly dull.]
adv
In a dullish manner.
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(archaic) Characterised or marked by dullness.
n
A fictional or generic location that is boring or dull.
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Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour.
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Melancholy, sad.
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(chiefly UK) Very gloomy or pessimistic.
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(informal, often derogatory) Depressed.
adv
In a faded manner.
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The property of being or feeling faint.
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A state of obscurity; confusion; absence of clarity.
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(informal, humorous) A state of lethargy and sleepiness that comes on shortly after eating a large or heavy meal.
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(transitive, obsolete) To make dull; stupefy.
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Daze.
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Bleak, barren, and desolate.
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Lacking gaiety; gloomy; somber; drab
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Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy.
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Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
n
Alternative form of doom and gloom [Something considered indicative of feelings of pessimism and despair.]
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Gloomy.
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A vocal pessimist or naysayer.
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A gloomy, negative person.
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Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected.
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Alternative spelling of gloomy Gus [(informal) A person with a sullen, unhappy appearance or demeanor; a person with a pessimistic outlook.]
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despondent; moody; sullen
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(obsolete) dark; gloomy; dismal.
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(Scotland) Dreary.
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Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
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Dreary, gloomy.
adv
With a dreary or gloomy countenance.
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Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
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Characterised by grimness; harsh, wrathful, terrible.
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Synonym of grimly (“grim-looking, grim-natured”)
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Somewhat grim.
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Characterised or marked by grimness; somber
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(film, literature) Intense and starkly realistic; depicting harsh reality, especially violence.
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Uninviting; dour.
v
(idiomatic, informal) To be depressed; to have low morale; to feel sad.
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(dialect) heavy; of heavy mood; doleful; sad; dull; gloomy.
n
The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.
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melancholy
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(colloquial, dated) To make melancholy.
n
(obsolete) Melancholy; a fit of hypochondria; a morbid depression.
adj
Stygian, gloomy.
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(obsolete) Cheerless; sombre; serious.
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Sickly-looking, pale, wan.
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Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
n
A period of depression; a depressed mood or situation.
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Lurking, skulking, menacing.
adv
In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
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lugubriousness
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Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
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(rare) Characterised or marked by lulling
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Alternative spelling of lurgy [(Britain, slang) A fictitious, highly infectious disease; often used in the phrase "the dreaded lurgi", sometimes as a reference to flu-like symptoms]
n
Alternative spelling of lurgy [(Britain, slang) A fictitious, highly infectious disease; often used in the phrase "the dreaded lurgi", sometimes as a reference to flu-like symptoms]
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(Britain, slang) Any uncategorised disease with symptoms similar to a cold or flu that renders one unable to work.
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Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.
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Mellow, soft, insipid
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Submissive, dispirited.
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(usually with "the") Depression, low spirits, unhappiness.
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Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
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(obsolete) A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic.
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A person who is habitually melancholy.
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Obsolete form of melancholic. [Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.]
n
(obsolete) One affected with melancholy or dejection.
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Obsolete spelling of melancholy [(literary) Affected with great sadness or depression.]
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melancholic
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(literary) Affected with great sadness or depression.
n
Something insipid or mawkish.
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Miserable, pessimistic.
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Exhibiting or relating to miserabilism.
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(informal) grumpy and disheartened on returning to work on a Monday after the weekend
n
A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.
n
(psychology) A rapid and extreme changing in mood, from excessively happy to desperately miserable.
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Dour, gloomy or brooding.
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Melancholic, dejected.
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Inclined to mope.
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(obsolete) melancholy; moping
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Grisly or gruesome.
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(archaic, informal, with the) A state of melancholy, sadness, ennui.
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Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
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(regional) low spirits, mild depression, the blues
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(dated) A gloomy or sullen silence.
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A drowsy person.
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Somewhat numb.
n
(medicine) Decreased level of alertness or consciousness
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(medicine) Far from alert or oriented to time and space, and exhibiting other signs of being confused, a state just short of frank delirium.
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(obsolete) The condition of being listless, drowsy, negligent, or inattentive; an occurrence of such negligence or inattention.
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(Scotland) Bleak; melancholy.
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(figuratively) In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.
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Excessively gloomy.
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Seeing poorly.
v
(New Zealand, colloquial) To be negative or depressed.
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Somewhat plain in appearance.
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Dull, boring, tedious; long-winded in expression.
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Somewhat poorly.
adv
So as to potter; in a slow and aimless manner.
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Lightless, gloomy.
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Somewhat rough.
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(archaic, figuratively) Dull; impaired by inactivity.
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Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
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Somewhat sad; indicating or marked by sadness
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Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.
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(slang) Very boring.
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(of color) Dull; not bright or colorful.
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(figuratively) Dull, expressionless (of a person’s appearance).
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(obsolete) Cheerless, gloomy, sombre.
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gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited.
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(obsolete) sullen; sad
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Characterised or marked by somberness.
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Melancholic, gloomy, dreary, dismal; grim.
adv
(British spelling) Alternative form of somberly [(American spelling) In a somber manner.]
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Alternative form of sombersome [Characterised or marked by somberness.]
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Gloomy; sombre.
adv
In a somnolent way; sleepily.
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Plain in appearance; barren, desolate.
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Grim and forbidding in appearance.
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(obsolete) sullen; obstinate; perverse
n
A stupe (medicated cloth or sponge).
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(archaic) Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
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In a state of stupor.
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having slow or confused reactions, as if in a stupor; groggy
adv
In a stuporous manner.
n
Obsolete form of stupor. [A state of greatly dulled or completely suspended consciousness or sensibility; (particularly medicine) a chiefly mental condition marked by absence of spontaneous movement, greatly diminished responsiveness to stimulation, and usually impaired consciousness.]
adj
Obsolete spelling of sullen [Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.]
n
A state of sulking.
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Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
n
Synonym of moderlieschen, Leucaspius delineatus.
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(figuratively) Dreary, cheerless.
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Threatening, menacing, gloomy.
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(UK dialectal) Dull; indolent; lazy.
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Colourless, drab, dull.
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(obsolete) Morose, bitter.
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tetric; harsh; morose
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Threatening.
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Slightly mentally deficient; touched in the head.
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(obsolete) sad; sorrowful; gloomy
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(rare) sad.
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Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
v
(humorous) To watch something that has virtually no movement, hence, something very boring.
n
The state of being winded, the temporary inability to breathe
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(West Country, Cornwall, Devon, simile) Sickly, weak.
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Somewhat withered.
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(UK, dialectal) A dull, drowsy state; stupor

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