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  • 121moody — a. 1. Humorsome, capricious, variable. 2. Angry, petulant, irritable, irascible, passionate, snappish, pettish, sour, crusty, crabbed, waspish, captious, snarling, peevish, testy, fretful, ill tempered, out of humor, out of temper. 3. Sullen,… …

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  • 122dark — 1. adjective 1) a dark night Syn: black, pitch black, jet black, inky; unlit, unilluminated; starless, moonless; dingy, gloomy, dusky, shadowy, shady; literary Stygian Ant: bright …

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  • 123menacing — adjective a menacing driver forced me to take the nearest exit Syn: threatening, ominous, intimidating, frightening, terrifying, alarming, forbidding, black, thunderous, glowering, unfriendly, hostile, sinister, baleful, warning; formal minatory… …

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  • 124frown — vb Frown, scowl, glower, lower, gloom are comparable when they mean to put on a dark or malignant countenance or aspect. Frown commonly implies a stern face and contracted brows that express displeasure, disapprobation, anger, or contempt {that… …

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  • 125glum — gloomy, morose, *sullen, saturnine, dour, surly, sulky, crabbed Analogous words: *silent, taciturn, close lipped, tight lipped: depressed, weighed down, oppressed (see DEPRESS): scowling, frowning, lowering, glowering, glooming (see FROWN vb)… …

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  • 126murky — obscure, gloomy, *dark, dim, dusky Analogous words: *turbid, muddy, roily: lowering, glowering, glooming or gloomy (see corresponding verbs at FROWN): lurid, grim, *ghastly Contrasted words: *bright, brilliant, radiant, effulgent: illuminated,… …

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  • 127sullen — sullen, *glum, morose, surly, sulky, crabbed, saturnine, dour, gloomy can mean governed by or showing, especially in one s aspect, a forbidding or disagreeable mood or disposition. One is sullen who is, often by disposition, gloomy, silent, and… …

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  • 128cloudy — adj 1. overcast, overclouded, overshadowed, shadowy, gray; somber, lowering, heavy, leaden, darkened, eclipsed; sunless, starless, moonless; hazy, nubilous, foggy, misty, Archaic. caliginous, vaporous, murky; moist, damp, drizzly, drippy, wet;… …

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