Causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; SYN. depressive, gloomy, saddening.

ETYM Formerly a noun; e.g., Chaucer.
1. Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary.
2. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.

1. Lacking brightness or color; dull; SYN. sober, somber, sombre.
2. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; SYN. dreary.

1. Sorrowful; distressful.
2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.

1. Not having a sharp edge or point.
2. Blunted in responsiveness or sensibility.
3. Lacking in liveliness or animation.
4. Not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; SYN. thudding, thumping.
5. (Of business) Not active or brisk; SYN. slow, sluggish.
6. Not keenly felt.
7. (Of color) Very low in saturation; highly diluted.
8. Being or made softer or less loud or clear; SYN. muffled, muted, softened.
9. Darkened with overcast; SYN. gray, grey, leaden.
10. Emitting or reflecting very little light. + prikaži više

ETYM Old Eng., p. p. of forlesen to lose utterly, AS. forleósan (p. p. forloren); pref. for- + leósan (in comp.) to lose; cf. Dutch verliezen to lose, German verlieren, Swed. förlora, Dan. forloren, Goth. fraliusan to lose. Related to For-, and Lorn, Lose.
Marked by or showing hopelessness.