4
chapfallen(adjective, blue, sad, depression, woe)
4
crabby(adjective, feelings, unstable, changeable, sorrowful)
4
cranky(adjective, feelings, sorrowful, mournful, lamenting)
4
cross(adjective, feelings, unstable, changeable, temperamental)
4
drab(adjective, blue, sad, depression, woe)
4
drear(adjective, bad, sad, sorrow, depression)
4
dumpish(adjective, blue, sad, sorrow, depression)
4
grumpy(adjective, feelings, unstable, changeable, sorrowful)
4
heartrending(adjective, sad, unhappy, melancholy, wretched)
4
heavy(adjective, bad, sad, sorrow, depression)
4
ill-humored(adjective, feelings, melancholy, miserable, unstable)
4
ill-tempered(adjective, feelings, unstable, changeable, temperamental)
4
irritable(adjective, feelings, unstable, changeable, temperamental)
4
mourning(noun, low, sorrowful, hopeless, dejected)
4
overcast(adjective, bad, sad, sorrow, depression)
4
pitiable(adjective, sad, awful, gloomy, depressed)
4
saturnine(adjective, unstable, changeable, dejection, temperamental)
4
testy(adjective, feelings, unstable, changeable, temperamental)
4
touching(adjective, sad, wretched, pitiful)
3
bad-tempered(adjective, feelings)
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