Define the word gloomy"Gloomy" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Gloomy \Gloom"y\, a. [Compar. Gloomier; superl. Gloomiest.]
1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or
darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.
"Though hid in gloomiest shade." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected;
as, a gloomy temper or countenance.
Syn: Dark; dim; dusky; dismal; cloudy; moody; sullen; morose;
melancholy; sad; downcast; depressed; dejected;
disheartened.
[1913 Webster]
"gloomy" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
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]
"gloomy" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
156 Moby Thesaurus words for "gloomy":
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
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