gloomy

gloomy

adjective \ˈglü-mē\

gloom·i·ergloom·i·est

Definition of GLOOMY

1

a : partially or totally dark; especially : dismally and depressingly dark <gloomy weather>

b : having a frowning or scowling appearance : forbidding <a gloomy countenance>

c : low in spirits : melancholy

2

a : causing gloom : depressing <a gloomy story> <a gloomy landscape>

b : lacking in promise or hopefulness : pessimistic <gloomy prophecies> <a gloomy future>

— gloom·i·ly \-mə-lē\ adverb

— gloom·i·ness \-mē-nəs\ noun

Examples of GLOOMY

1. We've had a week of gloomy weather.
2. The news continues to be gloomy.
3. She doesn't agree with their gloomy economic forecasts.
4. His book paints a gloomy picture of the prospects for peace.
5. I've never seen you looking so gloomy.

First Known Use of GLOOMY

1588

Related to GLOOMY

Synonyms

black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched

Antonyms

bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, cordial, festive, friendly, gay, heartwarming, sunshiny

Related Words

blue, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, down, droopy, hangdog, inconsolable, low, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, sad, unhappy, woebegone, woeful; dim, discomfiting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, upsetting; desperate, hopeless, pessimistic; lamentable, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful; colorless, drab, dull; dour, grim, lowering (also louring), lowery (also loury), menacing, negative, oppressive, threatening

Near Antonyms

blithe, blithesome, buoyant, gay, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, merry, mirthful; encouraging, hopeful, optimistic; lighthearted, lightsome

See Synonym Discussion at dismal, sullen

Rhymes with GLOOMY

bloomy, boomy, doomy, fumy, plumy, rheumy, roomy, spumy