gloomy | ||
1. | [ adjective ] characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom | |
Synonyms: | darkening grim | |
Examples: | "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" |
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Related terms: | hopeless | |
2. | [ adjective ] depressing in character or appearance | |
Synonyms: | dreary dismal sorry drear drab dingy | |
Examples: | "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 |
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Related terms: | cheerless | |
3. | [ adjective ] depressingly dark | |
Synonyms: | gloomful glooming | |
Examples: | "the gloomy forest" "the glooming interior of an old inn" "`gloomful' is archaic" |
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Related terms: | dark | |
4. | [ adjective ] reflecting gloom | |
Synonyms: | glum long-faced | |
Examples: | "gloomy faces" |
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Related terms: | dejected | |
5. | [ adjective ] causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom | |
Synonyms: | depressive saddening depressing | |
Examples: | "a gloomy outlook" "gloomy news" |
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Related terms: | sad | |
6. | [ adjective ] causing dejection | |
Synonyms: | dark depressing grim disconsolate dispiriting dismal blue | |
Examples: | "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" |
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Related terms: | cheerless | |
Similar spelling: |
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