gloomy

Plural: gloomies

Adjective Satellite

• depressingly dark
  • "the gloomy forest"
• filled with melancholy and despondency
  • "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"
  • "gloomy predictions"
  • "a gloomy silence"
• causing dejection
  • "a dark gloomy day"

Adj

• Not very illuminated; dim because of darkness, especially when appearing depressing or frightening.
• Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected.

Noun

• Someone or something that is gloomy or pessimistic.

Adjective

• Dismally dark, depressing, or despairing.

Examples

• a gloomy temper or countenance
• His opponent’s gloomy face revealed the poor state of their Words With Friends rack.
• The cavern was gloomy.

Synonyms

blue, dark, depressed, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, drab, drear, dreary, gloomful, glooming, grim, low, low-spirited, sorry, sulky, atrabiliary, atrabilious, bleak, blear, blitheless, bummed out, caliginous, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, cimmerian, clouded, comfortless, crepuscular, crestfallen, cut up, damp, darkling, darksome, dejected, depressing, desolate, despondent, dim, dimpsy, dire, disgruntled, disheartened, doleful, dolesome, down in the dumps, downsome, drearisome, dreich, dull, dusky, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, fuliginous, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, glum, gray, grief-stricken, grieving, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lack-laughter, lamentful, leaden, lightless, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, mirksome, mirthless, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, murksome, murky, no joke, obscure, passionate, plaintive, querulous, sad, saddened, saturnine, shady, shattered, solemn, somber, sombre, sombrous, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, stygian, sullen, sunless, swarthy, tenebrous, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, twilightish, umbrageous, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unilluminated, unlively, unmerry, wintry, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched

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