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English - English Dict (Wordnet)
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Adjective - causing dejection
- a week of rainy depressing weather
- a disconsolate winter landscape
- the first dismal dispiriting days of November
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- gloomy at the thought of what he had to face
- took a grim view of the economy
- lonely and blue in a strange city
- depressed by the loss of his job
- a dispirited and resigned expression on her face
- downcast after his defeat
- feeling discouraged and downhearted
- harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
- a dour, self-sacrificing life
- a grim man loving duty more than humanity
- undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw- J.M.Barrie
- harshly ironic or sinister
- fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
- the grim aftermath of the bombing
- the grim task of burying the victims
- gruesome evidence of human sacrifice
- macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages
- macabre tortures conceived by madmen
- not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
- Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty
- the stern demands of parenthood
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