gloomy

[Gloom·y]

Gloomy means "dark and dreary." A cloudy day, a sad song about lost love, your downbeat mood after your team loses a big game all of these can be called gloomy.

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Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.

Adjective S.
depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful'' is archaic"

Adjective S.
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"

Adjective S.
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

Adjective S.
reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"

Adjective S.
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"

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Adjective S.
causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"

superl.
Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.

superl.
Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.

Gloomy

Gloom"y , a. [Compar. Gloomier ; superl. Gloomiest.] 1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance. Syn. -- Dark; dim; dusky; dismal; cloudy; moody; sullen; morose; melancholy; sad; downcast; depressed; dejected; disheartened.

Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.

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Usage Examples

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

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Other Usage Examples

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.