gloomy
adjective
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”
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
3.
- “the gloomy forest”
- “the glooming interior of an old inn”
- “gloomful”
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6.
- “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”
Origin
From gloom + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian glumig (“dark, gloomy”).
Phrases
- doomy and gloomy
- gloomy goose
- gloomy Gus
- gloomy octopus
- look on the gloomy side
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