| No. | Term | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Abject | wretched; utterly hopeless |
| 2. | Acerbic | sharp; harshly biting |
| 3. | Adverse | unfavorable; harmful |
| 4. | Afflicted | troubled by pain or distress |
| 5. | Austere | severe; without comfort |
| 6. | Baleful | threatening harm; ominous |
| 7. | Bleak | coldly desolate; depressing |
| 8. | Brutal | cruel; harshly severe |
| 9. | Callous | emotionally hardened; unfeeling |
| 10. | Chilling | frighteningly cold or eerie |
| 11. | Clipped | curt; abruptly brief |
| 12. | Cold | lacking warmth or feeling |
| 13. | Dismal | gloomy; depressing |
| 14. | Dispiriting | draining hope or enthusiasm |
| 15. | Dour | stern; persistently gloomy |
| 16. | Drab | dull; lacking brightness |
| 17. | Dreadful | causing great fear or misery |
| 18. | Eerie | strangely unsettling |
| 19. | Forbidding | unfriendly; unwelcoming |
| 20. | Foreboding | suggesting something bad ahead |
| 21. | Frightful | very frightening |
| 22. | Funereal | like a funeral; mournful |
| 23. | Ghastly | horribly shocking or pale |
| 24. | Gloomy | dark; low-spirited |
| 25. | Grave | serious; somber |
| 26. | Grisly | horrifyingly gruesome |
| 27. | Grotesque | distorted; disturbingly ugly |
| 28. | Harsh | rough; painfully severe |
| 29. | Heartless | without compassion |
| 30. | Hollow | empty; lacking meaning |
| 31. | Horrid | shocking; very unpleasant |
| 32. | Icy | very cold; unfriendly |
| 33. | Implacable | unable to be appeased |
| 34. | Inhospitable | unwelcoming; harsh |
| 35. | Inky | very dark; blackish |
| 36. | Jarring | shocking; unsettling |
| 37. | Joyless | without happiness |
| 38. | Junglelike | wild; oppressive; tangled |
| 39. | Killer | extremely difficult or unpleasant |
| 40. | Knifelike | piercingly sharp or cold |
| 41. | Lamentable | regrettable; sorrowful |
| 42. | Lifeless | without vitality or spirit |
| 43. | Livid | furiously angry; ashen |
| 44. | Lugubrious | mournful; dismal |
| 45. | Macabre | death-related; gruesome |
| 46. | Malign | harmful; evil in intent |
| 47. | Menacing | threatening; intimidating |
| 48. | Merciless | showing no pity |
| 49. | Miserable | very unhappy or uncomfortable |
| 50. | Morbid | unhealthily focused on death |
| 51. | Murky | dark; unclear |
| 52. | Nasty | unpleasant; spiteful |
| 53. | Nihilistic | rejecting meaning; bleak outlook |
| 54. | Noir | dark; cynically bleak |
| 55. | Ominous | signaling possible danger |
| 56. | Oppressive | uncomfortably heavy or harsh |
| 57. | Pallid | pale; lacking color |
| 58. | Perilous | dangerous; risky |
| 59. | Pitiless | cruel; without mercy |
| 60. | Po-faced | solemn; humorless |
| 61. | Poisonous | harmful; venomous |
| 62. | Rancorous | bitterly resentful |
| 63. | Relentless | unyielding; never easing |
| 64. | Remorseless | showing no regret or pity |
| 65. | Ruthless | cruel; without compassion |
| 66. | Sanguinary | bloody; violent |
| 67. | Saturnine | gloomy; slow and gloomy |
| 68. | Scabrous | rough; harshly critical |
| 69. | Severe | strict; intensely harsh |
| 70. | Sinister | suggesting evil or harm |
| 71. | Sober | serious; restrained |
| 72. | Solemn | serious; formal; somber |
| 73. | Somber | dark; melancholy |
| 74. | Stark | bare; harshly plain |
| 75. | Stony | hard; unemotional |
| 76. | Stygian | very dark; infernal |
| 77. | Sullen | bad-tempered; gloomy |
| 78. | Terse | brief; blunt |
| 79. | Threatening | suggesting danger |
| 80. | Tomb-like | silent; deathly still |
| 81. | Tragic | marked by great sorrow |
| 82. | Uncaring | indifferent; without concern |
| 83. | Uncheerful | not cheerful; gloomy |
| 84. | Uncompromising | not yielding; rigid |
| 85. | Unforgiving | harsh; not lenient |
| 86. | Unfriendly | not kind; hostile |
| 87. | Unrelenting | continuing without easing |
| 88. | Unsparing | not merciful; severe |
| 89. | Upending | deeply unsettling; disruptive |
| 90. | Vicious | cruel; violent |
| 91. | Vile | morally disgusting |
| 92. | Vindictive | seeking revenge; spiteful |
| 93. | Wicked | evil; morally bad |
| 94. | Withering | devastatingly harsh |
| 95. | Woeful | full of sorrow; miserable |
| 96. | Wretched | miserable; very poor |
| 97. | Xanthic | yellowish; sallow |
| 98. | Xenophobic | hostile to outsiders |
| 99. | Xeric | very dry; parched |
| 100. | Yawning | vast; empty; bleak |