Word Source - www.word.sc/gloomy - Dictionary definition for gloomy

0 / 0

gloomy

adjective

characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"
Synonyms: darkening, grim Similar: hopeless
depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams
Synonyms: dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, sorry Similar: cheerless, uncheerful
depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful'' is archaic"
Synonyms: gloomful, glooming Similar: dark
causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"
Synonyms: depressing, depressive, saddening Similar: sad
reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"
Synonyms: glum, long-faced Similar: dejected
causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
Synonyms: blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, grim Similar: cheerless, uncheerful