gloomy
adjective, gloom·i·er, gloom·i·est.
Origin of gloomy
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funereal, dim, murky, overcast, somber, dreary, cloudy, dismal, forlorn, dull, bleak, pessimistic, dour, sullen, solemn, melancholy, sad, ugly, glum, depressedExamples from the Web for gloomy
Contemporary Examples of gloomy
Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim PresidentPierre Assouline
January 9, 2015
The running machines are a gloomy chorus of heavy-footed stomping.
Hemingway wrote of crossing a stream into a “gloomy little village.”
The gloomy postmortem has begun, but team manager Roy Hodgson is not resigning.
I felt recharged on my trip —a vastly different feeling from years before, when life in early March became muted and gloomy.
Historical Examples of gloomy
Horace Milbrey sits alone in his gloomy, high-ceilinged library.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
No one knows what that man suffers; it makes him gloomy all the time about everything.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
Dark pictures and gloomy forebodings are worse than useless.
He was silent, and almost as gloomy as Hiram Bartlett himself.
In the Midst of AlarmsRobert Barr
If your wife was sensitive, you would kill her with your gloomy fits.
In the Midst of AlarmsRobert Barr