4
wearisome
3
anguished(adjective, miserable, wretched, sorrowful, hopeless)
3
appalling
3
atrabilious(adjective, sadness, gloom, unclear, morose)
3
atrocious
3
awful
3
bare(adjective, thin, miserable, grim, lean)
3
beetle-browed(adjective, sorrow, depress, sadness, emotion)
3
bereaved
3
blah(adjective, dull, flat, ordinary, dry)
3
broken-hearted
3
brooding(adjective, sadness, gloom, unclear, morose)
3
calamitous
3
chap-fallen
3
chill(adjective, indifferent, unfriendly, aloof, remote)
3
darkening
3
darksome(adjective, sorrow, depress, sadness, emotion)
3
disturbing
3
dusk(dark, gloomy, misty)
3
eldritch(adjective, bad, awful, disgusting, black)
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