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crabby collapse

black collapse: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"; (board games) the darker pieces; the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white); a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa); popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928); British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799); marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"; of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.; extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"; being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil"; (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury"; soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"; dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars"; (of coffee) without cream or sugar; (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"; stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy; (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"; offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"; (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"; harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

dingy collapse

mystifying collapse

concealment collapse: the activity of keeping something secret

dim collapse: lacking in light; not bright or harsh; "a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music"; lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood"; make dim or lusterless; "Time had dimmed the silver"; become dim or lusterless; "the lights dimmed and the curtain rose"; switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam

sullen collapse

sinister collapse: on or starting from the wearer's left; "bar sinister"

moody collapse: United States evangelist (1837-1899); United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906); subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer"

ebony collapse: tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork; hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys

shadowy collapse: lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike column of smoke"

unfortunate collapse: a person who suffers misfortune; unsuitable or regrettable; "an unfortunate choice of words"; "an unfortunate speech"; not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned"

ill collapse: presaging ill fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"; distressing; "ill manners"; "of ill repute"; resulting in suffering or adversity; "ill effects"; "it's an ill wind that blows no good"; indicating hostility or enmity; "you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will"; affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering"; (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; "he was ill prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill-conceived plan"; with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly; "we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"; unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"

doleful collapse: filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news"

pessimistic collapse: expecting the worst in this worst of all possible worlds

melancholic collapse: someone subject to melancholia

barbarism collapse

umbra collapse: a region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light

dire collapse

pessimism collapse: a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things; the feeling that things will turn out badly

terra incognita collapse

hold out on collapse

x collapse: the 24th letter of the Roman alphabet

glowering collapse

sub rosa collapse: in secret or covertly; "held a meeting sub rosa to avoid general criticism"

weary collapse

color blind collapse

dark collapse: an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness"; absence of light or illumination; not giving performances; closed; "the theater is dark on Mondays"; brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes); "dark eyes"; devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat"; (used of color) having a dark hue; "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue"; marked by difficulty of style or expression; "much that was dark is now quite clear to me"; "those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure"; showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"; secret; "keep it dark"

mope collapse: be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed; move around slowly and aimlessly

roiled collapse

play dumb collapse

moping collapse

grum collapse

nihilistic collapse: of or relating to nihilism

running mate collapse: a nominee for the lesser of two closely related political offices

seamy collapse: morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"; showing a seam

Jupiter Fulgur collapse: an epithet for Jupiter

grope in the dark collapse

forlorn collapse: marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"

gray collapse: a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black; United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888); American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806); English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)

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