Gloomy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Partially or totally dark, especially dismal and dreary: a damp, gloomy day.
  • adj. Showing or filled with gloom: gloomy faces.
  • adj. Causing or producing gloom; depressing: gloomy news.
  • adj. Marked by hopelessness; very pessimistic: gloomy predictions.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
  • adj. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
  • adj. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Thickly shaded; cheerlessly obscure; shadowy; dark; somber.
  • Affected with, characterized by, or expressing gloom; wearing the aspect of sorrow; depressed or depressing; melancholy; doleful: as, a gloomy countenance; a gloomy prospect.
  • Synonyms Dim, dusky, cloudy, cheerless, lowering. See darkness.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. depressingly dark
  • adj. causing dejection
  • adj. filled with melancholy and despondency
  • Equivalent
    dark    depressing    cheerless    uncheerful    dejected   
    Cross Reference
    cheerless    dark    depressed    depressing   
    Variant
    gloomier    gloomiest   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    melancholy    sad    morose    dismal    disheartened    downcast    dim    sullen    depressed    dark   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Sukhumi    gumi    roomy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dreary    grim    dismal    dim    silent    bleak