Synonyms: gloomy, grim, sorry, dark, drab, drear, dreary, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, blue
Definition: causing dejection
Usage: a blue day; the dark days of the war; a week of rainy depressing weather; a disconsolate winter landscape; the first dismal dispiriting days of November; a dark gloomy day; grim rainy weather
Similar words: cheerless, depressing, uncheerful
Definition: causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
Usage: the economic outlook is depressing; something cheerless about the room; a moody and uncheerful person; an uncheerful place
Synonyms: dingy, grubby, grungy, grimy, begrimed, raunchy
Definition: thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
Usage: a miner's begrimed face; dingy linen; grimy hands; grubby little fingers; a grungy kitchen
Similar words: soiled, dirty, unclean
Definition: soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
Usage: dirty unswept sidewalks; a child in dirty overalls; dirty slums; piles of dirty dishes; put his dirty feet on the clean sheet; wore an unclean shirt; mining is a dirty job; Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves
Synonyms: muddied, muddy, dingy, dirty
Definition: (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear
Usage: dirty is often used in combination; a dirty (or dingy) white; the muddied grey of the sea; muddy colors; dirty-green walls; dirty-blonde hair
Similar words: impure
Definition: combined with extraneous elements