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Defenition of the word gloomy

    • Defenition of the word gloomy

      • A bit sad.
      • Making despondent or depressive.
      • Having the tendency to judge things by their most unfavorable or negative qualities.
      • 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"
      • causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"
      • 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
      • depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"
      • 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"
      • reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"
      • depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful'' is archaic"
      • 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"
      • depressingly dark
      • causing dejection
      • filled with melancholy and despondency

    Synonyms for the word gloomy

      • blue
      • dark
      • depressed
      • depressing
      • depressive
      • dim
      • dingy
      • disconsolate
      • dismal
      • dispiriting
      • down in the dumps
      • drab
      • drear
      • dreary
      • dull
      • gloomful
      • glooming
      • glum
      • grim
      • long-faced
      • low
      • low-spirited
      • melancholy
      • miserable
      • murky
      • ominous
      • overcast
      • sad
      • saddening
      • sorry
      • unhappy

    Similar words in the gloomy

      • cheerless
      • dark
      • dejected
      • gloomy
      • hopeless
      • sad
      • uncheerful

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