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gloomy

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CIDE DICTIONARY

gloomya. 
  •  Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gloomy, adj. (gloomier, gloomiest)
1 dark; unlighted.
2 depressed; sullen.
3 dismal; depressing.

Derivative
gloomily adv. gloominess n.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

gloomy

Dejection

N dejection, dejectedness, depression, prosternation, lowness of spirits, depression of spirits, weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits, low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits, heart sinking, heaviness of heart, failure of heart, heaviness, infestivity, gloom, weariness, taedium vitae, disgust of life, mal du pays, anhedonia, melancholy, sadness, il penseroso, melancholia, dismals, blues, lachrymals, mumps, dumps, blue devils, doldrums, vapors, megrims, spleen, horrors, hypochondriasis, pessimism, la maladie sans maladie, despondency, slough of Despond, disconsolateness, hope deferred, blank despondency, voiceless woe, prostration of soul, broken heart, despair, cave of despair, cave of Trophonius demureness, gravity, solemnity, long face, grave face, hypochondriac, seek sorrow, self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos, malade imaginaire, medecin tant pis, croaker, pessimist, mope, mopus, affliction, sorry sight, memento mori, damper, wet blanket, Job's comforter, cheerless, joyless, spiritless, uncheerful, uncheery, unlively, unhappy, melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste, clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful, dreary, flat, dull, dull as a beetle, dull as ditchwater, depressing, melancholy as a gib cat, oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, down in one's luck, heavy-hearted, in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums, in doleful dumps, in bad humor, sullen, mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping, moody, glum, sulky, out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits, ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low, weary, discouraged, disheartened, desponding, chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen, sad, pensive, penseroso, tristful, dolesome, doleful, woebegone, lacrymose, lachrymose, in tears, melancholic, hypped, hypochondriacal, bilious, jaundiced, atrabilious, saturnine, splenetic, lackadaisical, serious, sedate, staid, stayed, grave as a judge, grave as an undertaker, grave as a mustard pot, sober, sober as a judge, solemn, demure, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, rueful, wan, long-faced, disconsolate, unconsolable, inconsolable, forlorn, comfortless, desolate, desole, sick at heart, soul sick, heart sick, au desespoir, in despair, lost, overcome, broken down, borne down, bowed down, heartstricken, cut up, dashed, sunk, unnerved, unmanned, down fallen, downtrodden, broken-hearted, careworn, with a long face, with tears in one's eyes, sadly, the countenance falling, the heart failing, the heart sinking within one, a plague of sighing and grief, thick-ey'd musing and curs'd melancholy, the sickening pang of hope deferred.

Darkness

N darkness, absence of light, blackness, obscurity, gloom, murk, dusk, Cimmerian darkness, Stygian darkness, Egyptian darkness, night, midnight, dead of night, witching hour of night, witching time of night, blind man's holiday, darkness visible, darkness that can be felt, palpable obscure, Erebus, the jaws of darkness, sablevested night, shade, shadow, umbra, penumbra, sciagraphy, obscuration, occultation, adumbration, obumbration, obtenebration, offuscation, caligation, extinction, eclipse, total eclipse, gathering of the clouds, shading, distribution of shade, chiaroscuro, noctivagation, black body, hohlraum, black hole, dark star, dark matter, cold dark matter, dark, darksome, darkling, obscure, tenebrious, sombrous, pitch dark, pitchy, pitch black, caliginous, black, sunless, lightless &c (sun) (light), somber, dusky, unilluminated &c (illuminate), nocturnal, dingy, lurid, gloomy, murky, murksome, shady, umbrageous, overcast, cloudy, darkened, dark as pitch, dark as a pit, dark as Erebus, benighted, noctivagant, noctivagous, in the dark, in the shade, brief as the lightning in the collied night, eldest Night and Chaos, ancestors of Nature, the blackness of the noonday night, the prayer of Ajax was for light.


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