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| depressing(verb, adjective, person, dull) | |
| sad(adjective, person, sorrow, negative) | |
| dismal(adjective, dull, gloomy, miserable) | |
| dreary(dull, sad, dark, gloomy) | |
| cheerless(adjective, person, dull, dark) | |
| mournful(adjective, person, sad, gloomy) | |
| joyless(adjective, dull, dark, gloomy) | |
| deplorable(adjective, sorrow, negative, emotion) | |
| depressive(sad, dark, cruel, dim) | |
| distressing | |
| lamentable(adjective, sorrow, negative, emotion) | |
| melancholy(adjective, person, dull, gloomy) | |
| afflictive(dull, gloomy, miserable) | |
| comfortless(dark, miserable, dim, austere) | |
| grievous | |
| woeful(gloomy, melancholy, sorrowful) | |
| affecting | |
| afflicting | |
| pathetic | |
| piteous |
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