dispiriting
111somber — Synonyms and related words: Acheronian, Acherontic, Cimmerian, Quaker colored, Stygian, acier, apocalyptic, ashen, ashy, bad, baleful, baneful, black, blackish, bleak, bodeful, boding, caliginous, canescent, cinereous, cinerous, clouded, cloudy,… …
112trying — Synonyms and related words: adverse, analytic, annoying, antagonistic, arduous, backbreaking, besetting, bothersome, burdensome, conflicting, contrary, counter, counteractive, crushing, cut and try, demanding, detrimental, devitalizing, difficult …
113unhappy — Synonyms and related words: Sad, against, anguished, anxious, awkward, bad, badly off, beefing, bellyaching, bitching, black, bleak, blue, bored, bumbling, cheerless, clumsy, complaining, complaintful, con, crabbing, crabby, cranky, crestfallen,… …
114woebegone — Synonyms and related words: affecting, afflictive, bitter, black, bleak, blue, bowed down, cast down, cheerless, comfortless, crestfallen, crushed, cut up, dashed, deep troubled, dejected, deplorable, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate,… …
115blue — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. azure, indigo, sapphire (see color); delft; severe, puritanical; sad, dejected, depressed, dispirited, downhearted; risqué, profane. See impurity, dejection.Ant., happy. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1.… …
116cheerless — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. See dejection.Ant., cheerful. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. gloomy, sorrowful, bleak; see dismal 1 , sad 1 , 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. gloomy, glum, depressed, dark, black, grim,… …
117chill — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. shivering, shakes, ague; chilliness; frost. See cold. v. ice, frost; discourage, dispirit. See dissuasion. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Uncomfortably cool] Syn. brisk, frosty, wintry, chilly; see cold 1 …
118gloomy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. obscure, shadowy; despondent, glum. Ant., bright. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Dark] Syn. dim, clouded, unlit; see dark 1 . 2. [Melancholy] Syn. downhearted, depressed, morose; see sad 1 . 3.… …
119joyless — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. cheerless, sad (see depression). Ant., joyful. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. doleful, heavy, dreary; see dismal 1 , sad 2 . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Tending to cause sadness or low… …
120melancholy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. dejected, dispirited, sad, depressed, blue (inf.). See dejection. Ant., happy. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Sad; said of persons ] Syn. depressed, unhappy, dispirited; see sad 1 . 2. [Depressing; said …
