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- Abbreviations|0
| dim(dark, depressing) | |
| disagreeable(tender, raw, burning, sore, stinging) | |
| dispirited(adjective, sad, unhappy, miserable, down) | |
| distasteful(tender, raw, burning, sore, stinging) | |
| distress | |
| dolor | |
| dour(miserable, depressing, cheerless) | |
| down(adjective, sad, unhappy, gloomy, miserable) | |
| down in dumps(expression, adjective, idiom, gloomy, joyless) | |
| down in mouth(expression, adjective, idiom, gloomy, joyless) | |
| down in the dumps(expression, adjective, idiom, sad, gloomy) | |
| downhearted(adjective, sad, gloomy, miserable, down) | |
| dull(sad, dark, dim, depressing) | |
| dulling | |
| dusky(sad, dark, dim, depressing) | |
| elegiac(sorrowful, mournful, lamenting) | |
| forlorn(dark, dim, depressing) | |
| glooming | |
| grief | |
| grief-stricken(sad, melancholy, sorrowful, mournful, woebegone) |
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