LARKIEST Antonyms

• lower than previously

• flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• stubbornly unyielding

• harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

• showing a brooding ill humor

• lacking in liveliness or animation

• emitting or reflecting very little light

• not keenly felt

• not having a sharp edge or point

• being or made softer or less loud or clear

• so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

• (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted

• slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

• (of business) not active or brisk

• blunted in responsiveness or sensibility

• not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft

• darkened with overcast

• make dull in appearance

• become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness

• deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

• make numb or insensitive

• make dull or blunt

• become less interesting or attractive

• make less lively or vigorous

• depressingly dark

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

• shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

• harshly ironic or sinister

• harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• someone subject to melancholia

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• very unhappy; full of misery

• deserving or inciting pity

• of the most contemptible kind

• of very poor quality or condition

• characterized by physical misery

• contemptibly small in amount

• concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities

• completely lacking in playfulness

• of great consequence

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• appealing to the mind

• requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve

• lacking brightness or color; dull

• grave or even gloomy in character

• experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent

• generalized feeling of distress

• causing discomfort

• marked by or producing unhappiness