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saturnine
Synonyms and Antonyms of saturnine
- the men awaiting interrogation by the police shared a saturnine silence
black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched
blue, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, down, droopy, hangdog, inconsolable, low, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, sad, unhappy, woebegone, woeful
dim, discomfiting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, upsetting
desperate, hopeless, pessimistic
lamentable, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful
dour, grim, lowering (also louring), lowery (also loury), menacing, negative, oppressive, threatening
Synonym Discussion of saturnine
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- remained sullen amid the festivities
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- a glum candidate left to ponder a stunning defeat
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- morose job seekers who are inured to rejection
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- a typical surly teenager
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- grew sulky after every spat
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- the school's notoriously crabbed headmaster
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- a saturnine cynic always finding fault
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- a gloomy mood ushered in by bad news
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