blue (s)
dark (s)
dingy (s)
disconsolate (s)
dismal (s)
gloomy (s)
grim (s)
sorry (s)
drab (s)
drear (s)
dreary (s)

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type s
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def causing dejection
examples a blue day
the dark days of the war
a week of rainy depressing weather
a disconsolate winter landscape
the first dismal dispiriting days of November
a dark gloomy day
grim rainy weather
Outgoing links
Similar to depressing, cheerless, uncheerful
Derivationally related form dreary → dreariness
Incoming links
Similar to depressing, cheerless, uncheerful
Derived from adjective drearily → dreary
Derived from adjective dismally → dismal
Derivationally related form dreariness → dreary

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