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lowering
CIDE DICTIONARY
lowering, a.
Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
lowering
Acheronian, Acherontic, Cimmerian, Stygian, abatement, about to be, abridgment, abusive, alleviation, already in sight, apocalyptic, approaching, at hand, attenuation, bad, baleful, baneful, beetle, beetle-browed, beetling, black, black-browed, bludgeoning, blustering, bodeful, boding, break, brewing, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, cadence, catenary, cheapening, close, close at hand, clouded, cloudy, coming, comminatory, concavity, contraction, cut, dampening, damping, dark, dark and gloomy, de-escalation, debasement, decline, decrease, decrement, decrescence, decurrence, deduction, deepening, deflation, degradation, dejected, demotion, denunciatory, depreciation, depression, descent, detrusion, devaluation, digging, diminishment, diminution, dire, dive, doomful, dour, dreary, drilling, droop, ducking, dull, dumpish, dying, dying off, evil, evil-starred, excavation, extenuation, fade-out, fateful, fear-inspiring, foreboding, forthcoming, frowning, funereal, future, gathering, gloom, gloomful, gloominess, glooming, gloomy, glowering, glum, going to happen, grim, grum, hauling down, heavy, hectoring, hollowness, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-lighted, ill-lit, ill-omened, ill-starred, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, inauspicious, incumbent, instant, intimidating, jutting, languishment, lapse, lessening, letup, looming, lower, lurking, markdown, melancholy, menacing, minacious, minatory, miniaturization, mining, mitigation, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mumpish, near, near at hand, nearing, nose dive, nubilous, of evil portent, ominous, on the horizon, overcast, overclouded, overhanging, overhung, pending, plummet, plummeting, plunge, portending, portentous, preparing, price cut, price fall, price reduction, probing, projecting, reduction, relaxation, sag, sagging, scaling down, scowling, simplicity, sinister, sinkage, sinking, slash, slump, somber, somberness, sombrous, sombrousness, stormy, submergence, subsidence, subtraction, sulky, sullen, superincumbent, surly, swag, terroristic, terrorizing, that will be, threatening, threatful, thrusting under, to come, tunneling, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward, upcoming, waiting, weakeningROGET THESAURUS
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Dejection
N dejection, dejectedness, depression, prosternation, lowness of spirits, depression of spirits, weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits, low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits, heart sinking, heaviness of heart, failure of heart, heaviness, infestivity, gloom, weariness, taedium vitae, disgust of life, mal du pays, anhedonia, melancholy, sadness, il penseroso, melancholia, dismals, blues, lachrymals, mumps, dumps, blue devils, doldrums, vapors, megrims, spleen, horrors, hypochondriasis, pessimism, la maladie sans maladie, despondency, slough of Despond, disconsolateness, hope deferred, blank despondency, voiceless woe, prostration of soul, broken heart, despair, cave of despair, cave of Trophonius demureness, gravity, solemnity, long face, grave face, hypochondriac, seek sorrow, self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos, malade imaginaire, medecin tant pis, croaker, pessimist, mope, mopus, affliction, sorry sight, memento mori, damper, wet blanket, Job's comforter, cheerless, joyless, spiritless, uncheerful, uncheery, unlively, unhappy, melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste, clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful, dreary, flat, dull, dull as a beetle, dull as ditchwater, depressing, melancholy as a gib cat, oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, down in one's luck, heavy-hearted, in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums, in doleful dumps, in bad humor, sullen, mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping, moody, glum, sulky, out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits, ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low, weary, discouraged, disheartened, desponding, chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen, sad, pensive, penseroso, tristful, dolesome, doleful, woebegone, lacrymose, lachrymose, in tears, melancholic, hypped, hypochondriacal, bilious, jaundiced, atrabilious, saturnine, splenetic, lackadaisical, serious, sedate, staid, stayed, grave as a judge, grave as an undertaker, grave as a mustard pot, sober, sober as a judge, solemn, demure, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, rueful, wan, long-faced, disconsolate, unconsolable, inconsolable, forlorn, comfortless, desolate, desole, sick at heart, soul sick, heart sick, au desespoir, in despair, lost, overcome, broken down, borne down, bowed down, heartstricken, cut up, dashed, sunk, unnerved, unmanned, down fallen, downtrodden, broken-hearted, careworn, with a long face, with tears in one's eyes, sadly, the countenance falling, the heart failing, the heart sinking within one, a plague of sighing and grief, thick-ey'd musing and curs'd melancholy, the sickening pang of hope deferred.Depression
N depression, lowering, depression, dip, abasement, detrusion, reduction, overthrow, overset, overturn, upset, prostration, subversion, precipitation, bow, courtesy, curtsy, genuflexion, genuflection, kowtow, obeisance, salaam, depressed, at a low ebb, prostrate, detrusive, facinus quos inquinat aequat.For further exploring for "lowering" in Webster Dictionary Online