Tending to cause sadness or low spirits

• sad

  1. Showing, expressing, or feeling sorrow or unhappiness:
  2. Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing:
  3. Deplorable or inadequate; sorry:

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  1. Showing, expressing, or feeling sorrow or unhappiness:
  2. Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing:
  3. Deplorable or inadequate; sorry:

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• melancholy

  1. Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom.
  2. Pensive reflection or contemplation.
  3. Black bile.

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  1. Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom.
  2. Pensive reflection or contemplation.
  3. Black bile.

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• joyless

  1. Cheerless; dismal.

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  1. Cheerless; dismal.

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• gloomy

  1. Partially or totally dark, especially dismal and dreary:
  2. Showing or filled with gloom:
  3. Causing or producing gloom; depressing:

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  1. Partially or totally dark, especially dismal and dreary:
  2. Showing or filled with gloom:
  3. Causing or producing gloom; depressing:

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• dispiriting

  1. Lowering the morale of; making despondent or depressive; disheartening.
  2. Present participle of dispirit.

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  1. Lowering the morale of; making despondent or depressive; disheartening.
  2. Present participle of dispirit.

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• dismal

  1. Causing gloom or depression; dreary:
  2. Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit:
  3. Dreadful; disastrous.

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  1. Causing gloom or depression; dreary:
  2. Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit:
  3. Dreadful; disastrous.

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• depressing

  1. Causing especially emotional depression.
  2. Dismal; dreary:

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  1. Causing especially emotional depression.
  2. Dismal; dreary:

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• blue

  1. The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between green and indigo, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 490 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation, whose hue is that of a clear daytime sky; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.
  2. A pigment or dye imparting this hue.
  3. Bluing.

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  1. The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between green and indigo, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 490 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation, whose hue is that of a clear daytime sky; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.
  2. A pigment or dye imparting this hue.
  3. Bluing.

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Dark and depressing

• tenebrific

  1. Serving to obscure or darken.
  2. Gloomy; dark.

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  1. Serving to obscure or darken.
  2. Gloomy; dark.

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• somber

  1. Dark; gloomy:
  2. Dull or dark in color:
  3. Melancholy; dismal:

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  1. Dark; gloomy:
  2. Dull or dark in color:
  3. Melancholy; dismal:

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• joyless

  1. Cheerless; dismal.

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  1. Cheerless; dismal.

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• glum

  1. Moody and melancholy; dejected.
  2. Gloomy; dismal.
  3. The quality or state of being moody, melancholy, and gloomy or an instance of it:

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  1. Moody and melancholy; dejected.
  2. Gloomy; dismal.
  3. The quality or state of being moody, melancholy, and gloomy or an instance of it:

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• gloomy

  1. Partially or totally dark, especially dismal and dreary:
  2. Showing or filled with gloom:
  3. Causing or producing gloom; depressing:

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  1. Partially or totally dark, especially dismal and dreary:
  2. Showing or filled with gloom:
  3. Causing or producing gloom; depressing:

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• dreary

  1. Dismal; bleak.
  2. Boring; dull:

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  1. Dismal; bleak.
  2. Boring; dull:

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• dismal

  1. Causing gloom or depression; dreary:
  2. Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit:
  3. Dreadful; disastrous.

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  1. Causing gloom or depression; dreary:
  2. Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit:
  3. Dreadful; disastrous.

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• desolate

  1. Devoid of inhabitants; deserted:
  2. Barren; lifeless:
  3. Feeling, showing, causing, or expressing sadness or loneliness.

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  1. Devoid of inhabitants; deserted:
  2. Barren; lifeless:
  3. Feeling, showing, causing, or expressing sadness or loneliness.

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• dark

  1. Lacking or having very little light:
  2. Lacking brightness:
  3. Reflecting only a small fraction of incident light; tending toward black:

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  1. Lacking or having very little light:
  2. Lacking brightness:
  3. Reflecting only a small fraction of incident light; tending toward black:

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• blue

  1. The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between green and indigo, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 490 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation, whose hue is that of a clear daytime sky; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.
  2. A pigment or dye imparting this hue.
  3. Bluing.

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  1. The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between green and indigo, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 490 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation, whose hue is that of a clear daytime sky; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.
  2. A pigment or dye imparting this hue.
  3. Bluing.

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• bleak

  1. Gloomy and somber:
  2. Providing no encouragement; depressing:
  3. Cold and cutting; raw:

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  1. Gloomy and somber:
  2. Providing no encouragement; depressing:
  3. Cold and cutting; raw:

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• black

  1. Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.
  2. Having little or no light:
  3. Of or belonging to a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin:

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  1. Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.
  2. Having little or no light:
  3. Of or belonging to a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin:

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