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gloomy

adjective

1 gloomy

Depressingly dark:
— The gloomy forest.

synonyms: gloomful, glooming, sulky.

2 gloomy

Filled with melancholy and despondency:
— Gloomy at the thought of what he had to face.
— Gloomy predictions.
— A gloomy silence.

synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, grim, low, low-spirited.

Polish: posępny, chmurny, ponury

3 gloomy

Causing dejection:
— A dark gloomy day.

synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, grim, sorry.

Roget 421: dark, darksome, darkling; obscure, tenebrious, sombrous, pitch dark, pitchy, pitch black; caliginous; black etc. (in color) 431.    ... show more

Roget 837: cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery; unlively; unhappy etc. 828; melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, ... show more

Polish: mroczny


Moby thesaurus: Acheronian, Acherontic, Cassandra-like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, Cimmerian, Stygian, acheronian, acherontic, apocalyptic, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bleak, blue, bodeful, boding, caliginous, castellatus ... show more.

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