gloomy
dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
causing gloom; dismal or depressing: a gloomy prospect.
filled with or showing gloom; sad, dejected, or melancholy.
hopeless or despairing; pessimistic: a gloomy view of the future.
Origin of gloomy
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Other words from gloomy
- gloom·i·ly, adverb
- gloom·i·ness, noun
- o·ver·gloom·i·ly, adverb
- o·ver·gloom·i·ness, noun
- o·ver·gloom·y, adjective
- un·gloom·i·ly, adverb
- un·gloom·y, adjective
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How to use gloomy in a sentence
It’s a conflict as stark as the gleeful “rooty-toot-toot” of Hardin’s vehicle as he approaches residences and the gloomy necessity of his task.
In ‘Standpipe,’ David Hardin offers poignant, fleeting reflections on the Flint water crisis | Kerri Arsenault | January 21, 2021 | Washington PostOn a spring evening last year, 400-plus revelers tuned in to Virtual Cryfest — a no-cover, gloomy-tunes online dance party for fans of Goth and “darkwave” music.
Do ‘elder Goths’ hold the secret to aging successfully? | David Walter | January 12, 2021 | Washington PostOn July 4, despite all the bad news and the gloomy outlook, Americans pause to celebrate the independence of their nation by reducing entire neighborhoods to smoking rubble with illegal fireworks.
Each of their free agencies is a direct product of a gloomy offseason.
Nationals keep surveying a deepened corner outfield market | Jesse Dougherty | December 11, 2020 | Washington PostChelsea and Manchester United look to be on the rise, having both been very active in the transfer market, while Sara’s Tottenham Hotspur and Tony’s Arsenal are bracing for gloomier prospects.
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 President | Pierre Assouline | January 9, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe running machines are a gloomy chorus of heavy-footed stomping.
But the more you get involved in it, the more gloomy you become.
Local Truces Are Syria’s Sad Little Pieces of Peace | Joshua Hersh | November 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe excluded “instances of repeated gloomy forebodings which on one occasion happened to be right.”
Knocking on Heaven's Door: True Stories of Unexplained, Uncanny Experiences at the Hour of Death | Patricia Pearson | August 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHemingway wrote of crossing a stream into a “gloomy little village.”
Turn we our backs to the cold gloomy north, to the wet windy west, to the dry parching east—on to the south!
It was broad daylight still, but gloomy there: the window had the pleasure of reposing under the leads, and was gloomy at noon.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodUnder the present order and with the present gloomy preconceptions they have been the least of its collective cares.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockRabecque, reflecting his master's mood—as becomes a good lackey—rode silent and gloomy a pace or two in the rear.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniWith these words, the beadle strode, with a lofty and gloomy air, from the undertakers premises.
Oliver Twist, Vol. II (of 3) | Charles Dickens
British Dictionary definitions for gloomy
/ (ˈɡluːmɪ) /
dark or dismal
causing depression, dejection, or gloom: gloomy news
despairing; sad
Derived forms of gloomy
- gloomily, adverb
- gloominess, noun
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