Dictionary Definition
gloomy adj
1 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" [syn: grim, darkening]
2 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 [syn: dingy,
dismal, drab, drear, dreary, sorry]
3 depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the
glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" [syn:
glooming, gloomful]
4 causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a
gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news" [syn: depressing, depressive, saddening]
5 reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces" [syn: glum, long-faced]
6 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" [syn: blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, grim] [also: gloomiest, gloomier]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Adjective
- Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
- The cavern was gloomy.
- Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.
- a gloomy temper or countenance
Translations
affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy
- ttbc French: maussade (1,2), morne (1, 2), mélancolique (2), lugubre (1,2), sombre (1), terne (1).
- ttbc Italian: oscuro (1); triste, melanconico, pessimista (2)
- ttbc Lithuanian: niūrus (2)
- ttbc Scots: immis
- ttbc Slovenian: otožen (2)
- ttbc Turkish: kasvetli (1)
- ttbc Portuguese: escuro, obscuro, trevas (1); triste, melancólico, pessimista (2)
Extensive Definition
Gloomy can refer to:
- gloom, a melancholy, depressing or despondent atmosphere
- The song Gloomy Sunday
- The Gloomy Dean, nickname of William Ralph Inge
- Gloomy Bear, a fictional character
- Gloomy Galleon
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Acheronian, Acherontic, Cassandra-like,
Cassandran, Cassandrian, Cimmerian, Stygian, acheronian, acherontic, apocalyptic, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bleak, blue, bodeful, boding, caliginous, castellatus, cheerless, cirrose, cirrous, cloud-flecked, clouded, cloudy, cold, crabbed, crestfallen, cumuliform, cumulous, cynical, dark, dark and gloomy, defeatist, dejected, depressant, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, despairing, despondent, dim, dire, dirty, disconsolate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dispirited, dispiriting, distressed, doleful, doomful, dour, down, downbeat, downcast, downhearted, drab, drear, drearisome, dreary, dull, dun, dusky, evil, evil-starred, fateful, foreboding, forlorn, funebrial, funereal, gloomful, glooming, glum, grave, gray, grim, heavy, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated,
ill-lighted, ill-lit, ill-omened, ill-starred, in the doldrums,
inauspicious,
inky, joyless, lenticularis, lowering, lugubrious, mammatus, melancholy, menacing, mirthless, miserable, moody, morose, murky, muzzy, nebulous, negative, negativistic, nihilistic, nimbose, nubilous, obscure, of evil portent,
ominous, oppressed, oppressive, overcast, overclouded, pessimist, pessimistic, portending, portentous, sad, saturnine, shaded, shadowy, shady, sinister, solemn, somber, sombrous, sorrowful, squally, stormy, stratiform, stratous, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, threatening, thunderheaded, triste, ugly, uncheerful, unfavorable, unfortunate, unhappy, unilluminated, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward, weariful, wearisome, weary, woebegone