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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• cheerless

  1. Lacking cheer; depressing.

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  1. Lacking cheer; depressing.

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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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