Definition of Gloomy

Adjective

• 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"
  blue dark dingy disconsolate dismal grim sorry drab drear dreary
• filled with melancholy and despondency
  "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"
  "lonely and blue in a strange city"
  "depressed by the loss of his job"
  "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"
  "downcast after his defeat"
  "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
  grim blue depressed dispirited down downcast downhearted - down in the mouth low - low spirited
• depressingly dark
  "the gloomy forest"
  "the glooming interior of an old inn"
  "`gloomful' is archaic"
  glooming gloomful sulky

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