gloomy

(glū'mē)
adj., -i·er, -i·est.

1. Partially or totally dark, especially dismal and dreary: a damp, gloomy day.
2. Showing or filled with gloom: gloomy faces.
3. 1. Causing or producing gloom; depressing: gloomy news.
   2. Marked by hopelessness; very pessimistic: gloomy predictions.

gloomily gloom'i·ly adv.
gloominess gloom'i·ness n.

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adjective

1. Dark and depressing: black, bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, glum, joyless, somber, tenebrific. See happy/unhappy, light/darkness.
2. Broodingly and sullenly unhappy: dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sulky, sullen, surly. See happy/unhappy.
3. In low spirits: blue, dejected, depressed, desolate, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, dull, dysphoric, heavy-hearted, low, melancholic, melancholy, sad, spiritless, tristful, unhappy, wistful. Idioms: downatinthe mouth. See happy/unhappy.
4. Tending to cause sadness or low spirits: blue, cheerless, depressing, dismal, dispiriting, joyless, melancholy, sad. See happy/unhappy.
5. Marked by little hopefulness: dark, dismal, pessimistic. See happy/unhappy, hope/despair.

adj

Definition: dark, black
Antonyms: bright, light, sunny

adj

Definition: feeling down, blue
Antonyms: animated, cheerful, content, encouraged, happy, joyful, sparkling, vivacious

adj

Definition: sad, depressing
Antonyms: cheerful, encouraging, exhilarating, happy, uplifting

IN BRIEF: Dimly lit or sadly.

They looked gloomily out the window at the rain.

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For a list of words related to gloomy, see:

• Sad, Serious, Pessimistic, or Discontented

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See words rhyming with "gloomy."

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - skummel, dyster, melankolsk, tungsindig

Nederlands (Dutch)
somber, grauw, mistroostig, zwaarmoedig

Français (French)
adj. - sombre, lugubre, morose, déprimant

Deutsch (German)
adj. - trübe, grau, trübselig, düster

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ζοφερός, σκοτεινός, βαρύς, μελαγχολικός, κατηφής, απαισιόδοξος

Italiano (Italian)
tetro, grigio, buio

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - melancólico, sombrio, tenebroso, escuro

Русский (Russian)
мрачный, унылый

Español (Spanish)
adj. - gris, triste, deprimente, sombrío, lóbrego, obscuro, tenebroso, pesimista

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - mörk, dyster

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
黑暗的, 令人沮丧的, 阴沉的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 黑暗的, 令人沮喪的, 陰沈的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 우울한, 어두운

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 暗い, 陰気な, 憂うつな, 悲観的な, ふさぎ込んだ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) كئيب, مظلم‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮קודר, עצוב, מדוכא‬

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