gloomy meaning and definition

GLOOMY adjective

Definition of gloomy (adjective)

1. depressingly dark
   • "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"
   • synonyms: gloomful, glooming, sulky
2. 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"
   • synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, grim, low, low-spirited
3. 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: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, grim, sorry