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English adjective: gloomy | |||
| 1. | gloomy depressingly dark | ||
| Samples | The gloomy forest. The glooming interior of an old inn. `gloomful' is archaic. | ||
| Synonyms | gloomful, glooming, sulky | ||
| Similar | dark | ||
| Antonyms | light | ||
| 2. | gloomy filled with melancholy and despondency | ||
| Samples | 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. Lonely and blue in a strange city. Depressed by the loss of his job. A dispirited and resigned expression on her face. Downcast after his defeat. Feeling discouraged and downhearted. | ||
| Synonyms | blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, grim, low, low-spirited | ||
| Similar | dejected | ||
| Antonyms | elated | ||
| 3. | gloomy causing dejection | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, grim, sorry | ||
| Similar | cheerless, depressing, uncheerful | ||
| Antonyms | cheerful | ||
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