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Dark or poorly lit

Causing or feeling depression or despondency

Negative or pessimistic in nature

Having a forbidding or joyless appearance

Causing distress, sadness or anxiety

Suggestive of being angry or in a foul mood

Visually cloudy, difficult or impossible to see through

Disturbing in nature due to references to death or dying

Lacking in color, vividness or brightness

Characterized by windy or stormy conditions

Feeling angry or annoyed

A person who tends to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen

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Adjective

Dark or poorly lit

under the trees

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“Nathan shuddered as he walked through the dark and gloomy corridor.”

Adjective

Causing or feeling depression or despondency

down in the dumps

in the doldrums

down in the mouth

looking as if one had lost a pound and found a penny

sick as a parrot

singing the blues

with a long face

as sick as a parrot

uncommunicative

sorry for yourself

down-in-the-mouth

deeply saddened

extremely saddened

prostrate with grief

unable to be comforted

unable to be consoled

beside oneself with grief

discombobulated

conscience-stricken

having the blahs

having blue devils

deeply regretful

at end of one's rope

at the end of your tether

poverty-stricken

on the verge of tears

lacking in confidence

lacking in enthusiasm

having lost heart

in floods of tears

with tears in your eyes

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“I tried to shake my gloomy mood for the sake of Kate who was trying hard to make me feel better.”

Adjective

Negative or pessimistic in nature

unfavourable^UK

looking on the black side

down in the dumps

down in the mouth

given to looking on the black side

looking on the dark side

demoralizing^US

full of despair

demoralising^UK

disadvantageous

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“Experts say that the economic outlook for next year is gloomy.”

Adjective

Having a forbidding or joyless appearance

down in the dumps

down in the mouth

strictly business

unfavourable^UK

disadvantageous

in the doldrums

given to looking on the black side

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“On a muddy street near the waterfront, there was a gloomy tavern called The Seven Stars.”

Adjective

Causing distress, sadness or anxiety

demoralising^UK

demoralizing^US

heart-wrenching

unfavourable^UK

disadvantageous

anxiety provoking

full of hardship

not encouraging

poverty-stricken

suggestive of evil

destabilising^UK

destabilizing^US

causing discomfort

extremely upsetting

emotionally moving

arousing affect

hard to swallow

counterproductive

environmentally unfriendly

more than one can bear

more than flesh and blood can stand

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Adjective

Suggestive of being angry or in a foul mood

evil-intentioned

ill-humoured^UK

uncommunicative

like a bear with a sore head

with a long face

down in the mouth

having a fit of the sulks

having got out of bed on the wrong side

hot under the collar

on a short fuse

as cross as two sticks

having got out of bed the wrong side

easily offended

confrontational

unaccommodating

apt to fly off the handle

perversely irritable

having short fuse

hot under collar

got up on wrong side of bed

passive-aggressive

huffy irascible

easily frightened

easily agitated

with chip on shoulder

with a chip on your shoulder

not best pleased

bent out of shape

ready for a fight

have chip on shoulder

foaming at the mouth

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Adjective

Visually cloudy, difficult or impossible to see through

non-transparent

of high density

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Adjective

Disturbing in nature due to references to death or dying

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Adjective

Lacking in color, vividness or brightness

dark-colored^US

dark-coloured^UK

light-coloured^UK

light-colored^US

like death warmed up

white as a ghost

white as a sheet

unhealthy-looking

peaches-and-cream

pale-colored^US

pastel-coloured^UK

pale-coloured^UK

pastel-colored^US

jaundiced-looking

black and white

black-and-white

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Adjective

Characterized by windy or stormy conditions

rough-and-tumble

raining cats and dogs

Adjective

Feeling angry or annoyed

not best pleased

have had something up to here

have had enough

have had a basinful of

have had it up to here with

sick to the back teeth

have had enough of

up to here with

have had it up to here

have had a basinful

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Noun

A person who tends to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen

doubting Thomas

prophet of doom

doom and gloom merchant

Job's comforter

dog in the manger

prophet of evil

spreader of despair and despondency

stick in the mud

death's head at a feast

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