sad, depressing, melancholy; dark, dim
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Gloomy Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
Gloomy Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(superl.)
Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.
Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.
(superl.)
Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutAffected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.
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."
2. affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.
similar words(1)
the gloomy dean
Caddugol = a. gloomy, obscure
Cymylog = a. cloudy, gloomy
Du = n. ink; adj. black, sable; gloomy
Erwyll = a. gloomy, dusky
Ffyll = a. overgrown; gloomy
Gorwyll = a. very gloomy
Gosgel = n. a gloom, a. gloomy
Hudd = n. a covert, a shade, a dusky, dark, gloomy
Hyll = a. gloomy; wild; ugly
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"
(synonym) grim, darkening
(similar) hopeless
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
(synonym) dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, sorry
(similar) cheerless, uncheerful
3. depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"
(synonym) glooming, gloomful
(similar) dark
4. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"
(synonym) depressing, depressive, saddening
(similar) sad
5. reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"
(synonym) glum, long-faced
(similar) dejected
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"
(synonym) blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, grim
(similar) cheerless, uncheerful
Gloomy Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries
To be surrounded by many gloomy situations in your dream, warns you of rapidly approaching unpleasantness and loss.
See Despair.
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or "What's in a dream": a scientific and practical exposition; By Gustavus Hindman, 1910. For the open domain e-text see: Guttenberg ProjectSee Despair.
Gloomy Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Gloomy can refer to:
- melancholia
- The song Gloomy Sunday
- The song Gloomy from the self-titled album Creedence Clearwater Revival
- The Gloomy Dean, nickname of William Ralph Inge
- Gloomy Bear, a fictional character
- Gloomy Galleon
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