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inscrutable(adjective, feature, obscure, mysterious, characteristic)
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pessimistic(adjective, character, gloomy, behaviour, personality)
12
sinful(adjective, feature, description, evil, characteristic)
11
dimness(noun, time, place, shade, darkness)
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forbidding(adjective, feature, character, description, behaviour)
11
grave(adjective, sorrow, woe, bad, character)
11
obscured(adjective, dull, cover, obscure, gloomy)
10
desolate(adjective, dull, bad, light, low)
10
darkling(adjective, black, darkened, darkish, caliginous)
10
darksome(adjective, characteristic, light, shade, black)
10
lightless(adjective, dull, obscure, gloomy, uncertain)
10
poorly lit(adjective, characteristic, shade, color, expression)
10
surly(adjective, sadness, gloom, attribute, unclear)
10
unclear(adjective, hard, obscure, rough, gloomy)
10
unilluminated(adjective, characteristic, feature, shade, color)
10
wretched(adjective, feature, unhappy, description, attribute)
9
sulky(adjective, character, sadness, gloom, behaviour)
9
abstruse(adjective, feature, characteristic, description, light)
9
blurred(adjective, dull, obscure, rough, gloomy)
9
cabalistic(adjective, evil, obscure, solid, strange)
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