Meaning of GLOOMY
| Pronunciation: | | 'gloomee
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- [adj] depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"
- [adj] 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"
- [adj] 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
- [adj] reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"
- [adj] 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"
- [adj] causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"
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| | Synonyms: | | blue, cheerless, dark, dejected, depressing, depressive, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, drab, drear, dreary, gloomful, glooming, glum, grim, hopeless, long-faced, sad, saddening, sorry, uncheerful |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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.
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| | Definition: | | To be surrounded by gloomy things and situations in your dream, forewarns of rapidly approaching loss and unhappiness. |
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| | Related Terms: | | Acheronian, Acherontic, apocalyptic, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bleak, blue, bodeful, boding, caliginous, Cassandra-like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, castellatus, cheerless, Cimmerian, cirrose, cirrous, clouded, cloud-flecked, 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, Stygian, 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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