3
desolate(adjective, sad, sorrow, depression, woe)
3
devastating(adjective, sad, sorrow, depression, woe)
3
disconsolate(adjective, sad, sorrow, depression, depress)
3
eldritch(adjective, awful, fear, black, horror)
3
evil-boding(adjective, awful, fear, black, horror)
3
evil boding(adjective, awful, fear, black, horror)
3
fearsome(adjective, black, bodeful)
3
ghastly(awful, terrible, dreadful)
3
gruesome(awful, terrible, dreadful)
3
heavy(adjective, sad, sorrow, depression, woe)
3
horrible(adjective, awful, terrible, dreadful)
3
horrifying(adjective, awful, terrible, strange, dreadful)
3
ill-fated(warning, threatening, unfavorable, ominous, unpromising)
3
ill-looking(adjective, sorrow, depress, sadness, emotion)
3
ill-starred(deadly, unfavorable, ominous, unpromising, lethal)
3
ill boding(adjective, awful, fear, black, horror)
3
ill omened(adjective, awful, fear, black, horror)
3
impending(adjective, critical, warning, threatening, forbidding)
3
inhospitable(adjective, sorrow, depress, sadness, emotion)
3
looming(adjective, critical, forbidding, denunciatory)
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