Definition of 'gloomy'
Adjective
- 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"
Synonyms: grim darkening - 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"
Synonyms: blue dark depressing dingy disconsolate dismal dispiriting grim sorry drab drear dreary - depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"
Synonyms: glooming gloomful sulky - causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"
Synonyms: depressing depressive saddening - reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"
Synonyms: glum long-faced
