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Feeling, showing, or expressing depression of the spirits; sad or dejected.
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- Feeling, showing, or expressing depression of the spirits; sad or dejected.
- Sadly or soberly musing; pensive
- Sad and depressed; gloomy
(Informal) Very bad; deplorable
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- (Informal) Very bad; deplorable
- Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing:
- Showing, expressing, or feeling sorrow or unhappiness:
Feeling or showing a yearning
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- Feeling or showing a yearning
Engaged in deep and serious thought.
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- Engaged in deep and serious thought.
- Thinking deeply or seriously, often of sad or melancholy things
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- Aspiring, or seeking advancement.
- Having or showing a wish; desirous; longing
- Expressing a wish or longing for something.
- Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
- Having no hope; despairing:
- Having no hope or chance of changing or improving:
- Full of soul.
- Full of or expressing deep feeling; profoundly emotional.
Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.
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- Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.
- Expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad
happy
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joyous
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exuberant
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Having the color of the clear sky or the deep sea
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- Having the color of the clear sky or the deep sea
- Being a trail, as for skiing, marked with a sign having a blue square, indicating an intermediate level of difficulty.
- Indecent; risqué:
Sad and dispirited.
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- Sad and dispirited.
- In low spirits; depressed; disheartened
Unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent
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- Unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent
- Lower in amount, degree, or position:
- Low in spirits; dejected.
Made uninhabitable; laid waste; in a ruinous state
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- Made uninhabitable; laid waste; in a ruinous state
- Feeling, showing, causing, or expressing sadness or loneliness.
- Barren; lifeless:
Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.
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- Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.
- Affected or marked by low spirits; dejected.
Not permitted to advance further in the play because forward progress has stopped, especially by being tackled. Used of a ball carrier.
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- Not permitted to advance further in the play because forward progress has stopped, especially by being tackled. Used of a ball carrier.
- Low in spirits; depressed:
- Characterized by low or falling prices
Very unhappy or discouraged; sad; dejected
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- Very unhappy or discouraged; sad; dejected
- (Of eyes) Looking downwards.
- Low in spirits; depressed.
- Sad
- In low spirits; discouraged; dejected
Not vivid; not brilliant; dim
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- Not vivid; not brilliant; dim
- Cloudy or overcast:
- Not bright, vivid, or shiny:
- Pertaining to dysphoria, or of being in a state of dysphoria
Melancholy; depressed; sad.
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- Melancholy; depressed; sad.
Relatively small. Used of a cost, price, or other value:
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- Relatively small. Used of a cost, price, or other value:
- Cut to show the wearer's neck and chest; décolleté:
- Not loud; soft:
Of or relating to melancholia.
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- Of or relating to melancholia.
- Affected with or subject to melancholy.
- Filled with or affected by melancholy"”great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
Causing or tending to cause sadness or gloom:
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- Causing or tending to cause sadness or gloom:
- Feeling, showing, or expressing depression of the spirits; sad or dejected.
- Sad and depressed; gloomy
Showing, expressing, or feeling sorrow or unhappiness:
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- Showing, expressing, or feeling sorrow or unhappiness:
- Dark or dull in color; drab
- Having, expressing, or showing low spirits or sorrow; unhappy; mournful; sorrowful
Lacking spirit, energy, or vigor; listless; depressed
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- Lacking spirit, energy, or vigor; listless; depressed
Sorrowful; gloomy.
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- Sorrowful; gloomy.
- (Archaic) Sad; sorrowful; melancholy
Not attended by or bringing good fortune; unlucky:
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- Not attended by or bringing good fortune; unlucky:
- Not suitable or apt; ill-chosen
- Not suitable; inappropriate:
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