Adjective: gloomy (gloomier,gloomiest) gloo-mee
- Depressingly dark
"the gloomy forest";
- glooming [archaic], gloomful [archaic], sulky
- Filled with melancholy and despondency
"gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence";
- grim, blue [informal], depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth [informal], low, low-spirited
- Causing dejection
"a dark gloomy day";
- blue [informal], dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
Derived forms: gloomier, gloomiest
See also: cheerless, dark, dejected, depressing, lugubrious, uncheerful
Encyclopedia: Gloomy