Gloomiest

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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." --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     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.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gloomiest
       See {gloomy}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gloomy
       adj 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" [syn: {grim}, {darkening}]
       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 [syn: {dingy}, {dismal}, {drab}, {drear},
           {dreary}, {sorry}]
       3: depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming
          interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" [syn: {glooming},
           {gloomful}]
       4: causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy
          outlook"; "gloomy news" [syn: {depressing}, {depressive},
          {saddening}]
       5: reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces" [syn: {glum}, {long-faced}]
       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" [syn:
           {blue}, {dark}, {depressing}, {disconsolate}, {dismal}, {dispiriting},
           {grim}]
       [also: {gloomiest}, {gloomier}]