Gloomy

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]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  156 Moby Thesaurus words for "gloomy":
     Acheronian, Acherontic, Cassandra-like, Cassandran, Cassandrian,
     Cimmerian, Stygian, acheronian, acherontic, apocalyptic, bad,
     baleful, baneful, black, bleak, blue, bodeful, boding, caliginous,
     castellatus, cheerless, cirrose, cirrous, cloud-flecked, clouded,
     cloudy, cold, crabbed, crestfallen, cumuliform, cumulous, cynical,
     dark, dark and gloomy, defeatist, dejected, depressant, depressed,
     depressing, depressive, desolate, despairing, despondent, dim,
     dire, dirty, disconsolate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal,
     dispirited, dispiriting, distressed, doleful, doomful, dour, down,
     downbeat, downcast, downhearted, drab, drear, drearisome, dreary,
     dull, dun, dusky, evil, evil-starred, fateful, foreboding, forlorn,
     funebrial, funereal, gloomful, glooming, glum, grave, gray, grim,
     heavy, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-lighted, ill-lit,
     ill-omened, ill-starred, in the doldrums, inauspicious, inky,
     joyless, lenticularis, lowering, lugubrious, mammatus, melancholy,
     menacing, mirthless, miserable, moody, morose, murky, muzzy,
     nebulous, negative, negativistic, nihilistic, nimbose, nubilous,
     obscure, of evil portent, ominous, oppressed, oppressive, overcast,
     overclouded, pessimist, pessimistic, portending, portentous, sad,
     saturnine, shaded, shadowy, shady, sinister, solemn, somber,
     sombrous, sorrowful, squally, stormy, stratiform, stratous, sulky,
     sullen, surly, tenebrous, threatening, thunderheaded, triste, ugly,
     uncheerful, unfavorable, unfortunate, unhappy, unilluminated,
     unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward, weariful, wearisome,
     weary, woebegone