ponury — meaning in English
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English meaning
- dour adjective Stern, unfriendly, and serious in manner or expression.
- grim adj Bleak, gloomy, or discouraging.
- morose adjective Gloomy, sullen, and in a persistently bad mood.
- saturnine adj Describes someone who tends to be cold, distant and gloomy by nature.
- sombre adjective Dark, dim, or lacking in brightness.
- tenebrous adj Dark, gloomy and hard to see clearly.
Senses
ponury is used for these senses in English:
- dour Expressing gloom or melancholy.
- grim Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
- morose Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
- saturnine (comparable) Of a person: having a tendency to be cold and gloomy
- sombre Melancholic, gloomy, dreary, dismal; grim.
- tenebrous (literary, also, figurative) Dark and gloomy; obscure. [from 15th c.]
dour — full definition
- adjective Stern, unfriendly, and serious in manner or expression.
- adjective Gloomy or grim.
grim — full definition
- adj Bleak, gloomy, or discouraging.
- adj Stern, harsh, or unyielding in expression or manner.
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