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List of meaning for gloomy

dim; dismal

glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky(adj)

depressingly dark

"the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"

gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited(adj)

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"

blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary(adj)

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 marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer

the cold rain made for a gloomy day

feeling unhappiness

has been gloomy ever since the breakup with his girlfriend

being without light or without much light

that house would be less gloomy if some of the overgrown trees and shrubs were cleared away

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