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dark(adjective, dull, gloomy, miserable, gray)
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gloomy(adjective, dull, dark, miserable, gray)
15
dismal(adjective, sorrow, gloomy, depress, sadness)
13
menacing(adjective, threatening)
13
threatening
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ominous(adjective, foreboding, threatening, menacing)
11
cloudy(adjective, sorrow, depress, sadness, emotion)
11
heavy(adjective, gloomy, depressed, gray, threatening)
11
lessening(noun, verb, adjective, drop, cut)
11
sinking(noun, verb, adjective, depression, depressing)
11
sullen(adjective, sorrow, depress, sadness, emotion)
10
murky(adjective, obscure, sorrow, gloomy, depress)
10
overcast(adjective, sorrow, depress, sadness, emotion)
9
decrease(noun, drop, cut, decline, fall)
9
diminishing(noun, verb, adjective, decrease, depression)
9
dreary(adjective, sorrow, depress, sadness, emotion)
9
funereal(adjective, sorrow, depress, sadness, emotion)
9
overhanging(adjective, threatening)
8
decline(noun, drop, cut, fall, position)
8
diminution(noun, drop, fall, decrease, depression)
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