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The synonyms of “Gloomy” are: gloomful, glooming, sulky, blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, grim, sorry, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, low, low-spirited, poorly lit, shadowy, sunless, dim, sombre, frowzy, murky, depressing, unwelcoming, uninviting, cheerless, joyless, comfortless, funereal, despondent, dejected, crestfallen, disappointed, disheartened, discouraged, demoralized, desolate, in low spirits, sad, unhappy, glum, full of gloom, doleful, melancholy, miserable, woebegone, mournful, sorrowful, forlorn, long-faced, in the doldrums, subdued, wretched, lugubrious, morose, sepulchral, saturnine, dour, mirthless, woeful, pessimistic, downbeat, disheartening, disappointing, dispiriting, unpromising, unfavourable, bleak, bad, black, distressing, hopeless
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “gloomy” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
bad | Feeling physical discomfort or pain tough is occasionally used colloquially for bad. The news was very bad. |
black | Relating to black people. As black as coal. |
bleak | (of an area of land) lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements. He paints a bleak picture of a company that has lost its way. |
blue | Of a ski run of the second lowest level of difficulty as indicated by blue markers positioned along it. Blue laws. |
cheerless | Gloomy; depressing. Something cheerless about the room. |
comfortless | Having or offering nothing that serves to ease feelings or grief or distress. A comfortless room. |
crestfallen | Brought low in spirit. He came back empty handed and crestfallen. |
dark | Having a dark hue. Dark green. |
dejected | Affected or marked by low spirits. Is dejected but trying to look cheerful. |
demoralized | Having lost confidence or hope; disheartened. Desperate demoralized people looking for work. |
depressed | Filled with melancholy and despondency. Depressed inner city areas. |
depressing | Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy. The economic outlook is depressing. |
desolate | Providing no shelter or sustenance. Depressed and desolate of soul. |
despondent | Without or almost without hope. She grew more and more despondent. |
dim | Made dim or less bright. The matter was in the dim and distant past. |
dingy | (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear. A dirty or dingy white. |
disappointed | Sad or displeased because someone or something has failed to fulfil one’s hopes or expectations. Thousands of disappointed customers were kept waiting. |
disappointing | Not up to expectations. A disappointing performance from one who had seemed so promising. |
disconsolate | Very unhappy and unable to be comforted. A disconsolate winter landscape. |
discouraged | Made less hopeful or enthusiastic. Felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem. |
disheartened | Made less hopeful or enthusiastic. The disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest. |
disheartening | Destructive of morale and self-reliance. Her death is particularly disheartening because it was preventable. |
dismal | Causing dejection. The dismal weather made the late afternoon seem like evening. |
dispirited | Having lost enthusiasm and hope; disheartened. A dispirited and divided Party. |
dispiriting | Destructive of morale and self-reliance. It was a dispiriting occasion. |
distressing | Bad; unfortunate. Distressing or disturbing news. |
doleful | Causing grief or misfortune. A doleful look. |
dour | Stubbornly unyielding. A dour self sacrificing life. |
down | Denoting a flavour variety of stable quark having relatively low mass and an electric charge of 1 3 In the Standard Model protons and neutrons are composed of up and down quarks. Had his algebra problems down. |
down in the mouth | Extending or moving from a higher to a lower place. |
downbeat | Pessimistic or gloomy. He responds to her enthusiasm with downbeat bemusement. |
downcast | Filled with melancholy and despondency. Downcast after his defeat. |
downhearted | Filled with melancholy and despondency. Fans must not be downhearted even though we lost. |
drab | Of a light brownish green color. Drab camouflage uniforms. |
drear | Causing dejection. |
dreary | Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise. The dreary round of working eating and trying to sleep. |
forlorn | Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely. Forlorn figures at bus stops. |
frowzy | Scruffy and neglected in appearance. Frowzy white hair. |
full of gloom | Having the normally expected amount. |
funereal | Having the mournful, sombre character appropriate to a funeral. Funereal gloom. |
gloomful | Depressingly dark. Gloomful is archaic. |
glooming | Depressingly dark. The glooming interior of an old inn. |
glum | Moody and melancholic. A glum hopeless shrug. |
grim | Harshly ironic or sinister. Grim determination. |
hopeless | Certain to fail. I m hopeless at mathematics. |
in low spirits | Currently fashionable. |
in the doldrums | Holding office. |
joyless | Not giving or feeling any pleasure or satisfaction; grim or dismal. She had to face the thought of a joyless future. |
long-faced | Having a face longer than the usual. |
low | Subdued or brought low in condition or status. The sun is low. |
low-spirited | Filled with melancholy and despondency. |
lugubrious | Excessively mournful. His face looked even more lugubrious than usual. |
melancholy | Having a feeling of melancholy sad and pensive. Growing more melancholy every hour. |
mirthless | (of a smile or laugh) lacking real amusement and typically expressing irony. He gave a short mirthless laugh. |
miserable | Very unhappy; full of misery. You miserable old creep. |
morose | Showing a brooding ill humor- Bruce Bli. She was morose and silent when she got home. |
mournful | Filled with or evoking sadness. Stared with mournful eyes. |
murky | Clouded as with sediment. Murky waters. |
pessimistic | Expecting the worst possible outcome. He was pessimistic about the prospects. |
poorly lit | Somewhat ill or prone to illness. |
sad | Of things that make you feel sad Christina Rossetti. Her clothes were in sad shape. |
saturnine | Showing a brooding ill humor- Bruce Bli. His saturnine face and dark watchful eyes. |
sepulchral | Gloomy; dismal. A speech delivered in sepulchral tones. |
shadowy | Of uncertain identity or nature. A long shadowy cobbled passage. |
sombre | Grave or even gloomy in character. The night skies were sombre and starless. |
sorrowful | Experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss- Proverbs 14:13. Sorrowful news. |
sorry | Used as a polite request that someone should repeat something that one has failed to hear or understand. He looks a sorry sight with his broken jaw. |
subdued | In a softened tone. Subdued lighting. |
sulky | Moving slowly. Disappointment was making her sulky. |
sunless | Without any sun. The windowless sunless headquarters. |
unfavourable | Not favorable. Unfavourable economic conditions. |
unhappy | Not happy. Unhappy caravans straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes. |
uninviting | Not tempting. The house was dark and uninviting. |
unpromising | Not giving hope of future success or good results. The boy s natural intellect had survived in unpromising circumstances. |
unwelcoming | Having an inhospitable or uninviting quality. Jean crept into her cold and unwelcoming bed. |
woebegone | Worn and broken down by hard use. His sorrow made him look haggard and woebegone. |
woeful | Affected by or full of grief or woe. Woeful errors of judgment. |
wretched | Of poor quality; very bad. Spent a wretched night on the floor. |
bleak | (of a building or room) charmless and inhospitable; dreary. The bleak treeless regions of the high Andes. |
cheerless | Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy. The corridors were ill lit and cheerless. |
contemplative | A person devoted to the contemplative life. She regarded me with a contemplative eye. |
dejected | Sad and depressed; dispirited. He stood in the street looking dejected. |
depressed | (of a place or economic activity) suffering the damaging effects of a lack of demand or employment. Depressed by the loss of his job. |
despair | A state in which all hope is lost or absent. They were rescued from despair at the last minute. |
despairing | Showing the loss of all hope. The last despairing plea of the condemned criminal. |
despondent | Without or almost without hope. She grew more and more despondent. |
dingy | Discolored by impurities; not bright and clear is often used in combination. A dirty or dingy white. |
disconsolate | Very unhappy and unable to be comforted. A disconsolate winter landscape. |
discouraged | Lacking in resolution. Felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem. |
dismal | (of a person or their mood) gloomy. The first dismal dispiriting days of November. |
dispirited | Filled with melancholy and despondency. A dispirited and resigned expression on her face. |
dour | Showing a brooding ill humor. A hard dour humourless fanatic. |
drab | Clothes especially trousers made of drab. The landscape was drab and grey. |
dreary | Causing dejection. The dreary round of working eating and trying to sleep. |
gloom | A feeling of melancholy apprehension. A black yew gloom d the stagnant air. |
glum | Looking or feeling dejected; morose. A glum hopeless shrug. |
grim | Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance. Grim determination. |
hopeless | Without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success. With a hopeless sigh he sat down. |
melancholy | A humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy. We acquainted him with the melancholy truth. |
mourning | State of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one. If he dies she ll put on mourning but she won t cry. |
nostalgia | Something done or presented in order to evoke feelings of nostalgia. An evening of TV nostalgia. |
pensive | Showing pensive sadness. A pensive mood. |
pessimistic | Expecting the worst possible outcome. He was pessimistic about the prospects. |
sadden | Cause to feel sorrow; make unhappy. He was greatly saddened by the death of his only son. |
somber | Grave or even gloomy in character. A somber mood. |
sulky | Sullen or moody. She had a sultry sulky mouth. |
sullen | Bad-tempered and sulky. A sullen crowd. |
wistful | Showing pensive sadness. The sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty. |
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