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gloomy

UK/ˈɡluːmi/ US/ˈɡlumi/ fairly common informal

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”
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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.

depressingly dark

  • “the gloomy forest”
  • “the glooming interior of an old inn”
  • “gloomful”
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4.

causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom

  • “a gloomy outlook”
  • “gloomy news”
5.

reflecting gloom

  • “gloomy faces”
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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”

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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