| Adj. | 1. | gloomy - 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"hopeless - without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down" | |
| 2. | gloomy - 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.Williamscheerless, uncheerful - lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" | |
| 3. | gloomy - depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"dark - devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness; shadowed or black or somber-colored; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "the theater is dark on Mondays"; "dark as the inside of a black cat" | |
| 4. | gloomy - causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"sad - experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti | |
| 5. | gloomy - reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"dejected - affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful" | |
| 6. | gloomy - 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"cheerless, uncheerful - lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" | |