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ADJECTIVE gloomy COMPARATIVE gloomier SUPERLATIVE gloomiest

gloomy English

Meaning gloomy meaning

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Definitions in simple English

gloomy Adjective

— If a place is gloomy, it is dark or poorly lit. The cavern was gloomy. — If a person is gloomy, they are unhappy and without hope.

gloomy

— adjective (= glooming, gloomful) depressingly dark the gloomy forest the glooming interior of an old inn 'gloomful' is archaic — adjective (= grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, downcast, downhearted) filled with melancholy and despondency 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 — adjective (= blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, grim) 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

Synonyms gloomy synonyms

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gloomy English » English

dark sad depressed melancholy dismal sullen dim somber obscure dreary depressing sombre dull sorrowful dusky cheerless mournful overcast murky grim blue morose cloudy bleak unhappy dispirited miserable downhearted downcast glum sulky pessimistic down doleful disconsolate dejected black shadowy moody lugubrious low-spirited gloom desolate clouded threatening solemn heavy glooming gloomful gaunt

Topics gloomy topics

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Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Sad

What words describe someone who feels sad?

sad crestfallen dejected disappointed discouraged doleful down downcast downhearted fed up forlorn gloomy glum grouchy grumpy with a heavy heart homesick low melancholy morose mournful pensive sober (adj) solemn sorry sorrowful sullen unhappy wistful woeful

States Quality Light

Dark

What words describe a place that is dark and makes you feel bad or afraid?

gloomy dingy the shadows

Examples gloomy examples

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Simple sentences

Why are you so gloomy?

It's a very gloomy day.

Don't be so gloomy about the future.

The future looked very gloomy.

There was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy.

Your step-mother is not sending you to her granny, but to a wicked witch who lives in that great gloomy wood.

She gave her grandchildren a bottle of milk and a piece of ham and a loaf of bread, and they set out for the great gloomy wood.

The catacombes of Paris are famous, but a bit gloomy.

You look gloomy.

He looks gloomy.

The weather is gloomy.

I'm feeling gloomy today.

The room is very gloomy.

Today I've seen tens of gloomy angry faces glancing at me.

Why is Tom so gloomy?

The weather was gloomy.

Movie subtitles

A gloomy dawn.

Heavy and gloomy is the sleep of the off duty.

Lock me in that gloomy chateau you've got somewhere?

Why so gloomy?

We ought to have lighter paint in the hall, it's a little gloomy.

But don't look so gloomy.

I sometimes think, my dear, that you've taken an unnecessarily gloomy view about my future.

Nothing gloomy, I hope.

George seems to like the life there in his grand, gloomy and peculiar way.

So gloomy, Mother St John? You light up when you like novices.

My dear fellow, that's rather a gloomy point of view.

What a gloomy place!

It's a little gloomy, isn't it?

How can you live in such a gloomy house?

Tell me of your youth or why you are so gloomy and in such a bad mood today. or rather why your eyes so fearfully evade mine.

What will you do with me? Lock me in that gloomy chateau you've got somewhere?

I had a rather gloomy letter from home today.

It's so gloomy here.

Gloomy William.

No. It's gloomy.

What a divinely gloomy old house.

So much cozier than that enormous, gloomy dining room.

Now I understand why he was so gloomy this morning.

It's gloomy enough in here as it is.

What a gloomy dump.

But what's that gloomy brooding, for a guy as you!

Dear mum, don't be so gloomy.

Looking gloomy?

I think Colonel Holland is taking altogether too gloomy a view.

And don't be so gloomy.

No need to be so gloomy.

Fun, Charlie, not gloomy thoughts.

Don't you think Alain looks too gloomy?

News and current affairs

Weak investment activity partly reflects a gloomy view of the European market.

Yet instead of thinking that the momentum building in 2006 will carry forward and make 2007 an even better year, Europe's gloomy experts are predicting a significant slowdown.

The IMF's gloomy growth forecasts attest to that.

Libya, of course, can survive the gloomy prospect of post-authoritarian civil war.

But the long-term economic prospects of the global economy as a whole look gloomy.

But obviously, whether or not you do believe in the existence of the Christian God (or any other kind of god), Dawkins's gloomy conclusions do not follow.

Keeping those promises despite America's gloomy economic prospects will not be easy.

Indeed, Japan could become one of the few rays of light in an otherwise gloomy advanced-country landscape.

If so, the gloomy predictions of absolute American decline will turn out to be as misleading as similar predictions in decades past.

Amid this gloomy outlook, we anxiously look for encouraging signs.

Are there exceptions to the gloomy outlook?

This gloomy view might be explained by the interest Chubais has in stopping the West from challenging Russia's rulers for violating human rights and curtailing freedom.

Industrial leaders and ordinary citizens alike want to be told that the EU is working on a policy approach that looks farther ahead than the gloomy present.

WASHINGTON, DC - Is the Arab Spring turning into a gloomy autumn?

That, plus the gloomy international outlook and a fiscal policy that will have to become less expansionary after the election, will slow the economy down.

Still, however gloomy the outlook, we do stagger on - the flowers still bloom, the breeze stirs the trees, the birds sing, and children laugh.

If the increase continues beyond 2050, one cannot help but be gloomy about most people's prospects.

Who will make Germany an engine of Europe again rather than a gloomy passenger?

Yet, despite Bolivia's arrival at this gloomy turning point, events can, paradoxically, turn out moderately well.

The verdict disproved gloomy predictions of a hung parliament and the further strengthening of regional parties.

Two days after making that gloomy assessment, the French chief of the defense staff, General Jean-Louis Georgelin, followed suit.

Such a scenario would reverse the gloomy demographic and economic trends in Russia's eastern territories, and would strengthen Russia's geopolitical position in the process.

It is time to redress that balance, or Soros's gloomy prognosis may become reality.

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