Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Partially or totally dark, especially dismal and dreary: a damp, gloomy day.
- adj. Showing or filled with gloom: gloomy faces.
- adj. Causing or producing gloom; depressing: gloomy news.
- adj. Marked by hopelessness; very pessimistic: gloomy predictions.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Thickly shaded; cheerlessly obscure; shadowy; dark; somber.
- Affected with, characterized by, or expressing gloom; wearing the aspect of sorrow; depressed or depressing; melancholy; doleful: as, a gloomy countenance; a gloomy prospect.
- Synonyms Dim, dusky, cloudy, cheerless, lowering. See darkness.
Wiktionary
- adj. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
- adj. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
- adj. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. depressingly dark
- adj. causing dejection
- adj. filled with melancholy and despondency
Etymologies
- gloom + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
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“Examples of the best and worst parts of a conceptual Americana are painted in gloomy strokes, making the fatal fog a backdrop for the question: is this all karma?”
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“If, as seems likely, they remain gloomy, then Democrats will suffer.”
“But with kids today more interested in gloomy mortal Bella locking lips with the moody and misunderstood vampire Edward in the “Twilight” books and movies, vampires are no longer slumbering in coffins.”
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“The fact that the ABYSS is HELL is confirmed by comparing 2 Peter 2: 4 with Luke 8: 30b,31: 2 Peter 2: 4: "God did not spare the angels when they sinned but sent them into HELL, putting them in gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment.”
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“Meanwhile, everything is in gloomy half-light, glimpsed rather than seen.”
“With clasped hands, I fervently implored a blessing on its inhabitants, and hastily turned away; for I saw the sunshine was departing; and I carefully avoided another glance, lest I should see it in gloomy shadow like the rest of the landscape.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘gloomy’.
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macabre
words associated with the macabre & horror.
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Russian Doll Words
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
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emo words
feelings...blah, blah, blah, feelings...
forsaken, anguish, angst, sorrowful, dejected, depressed, disconsolate, heartbroken, genial, chipper, inadequate, helpless and 58 more...
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Adjectives
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serendipity, fragrance, glamour, smitten, nourish, lavish, luxury, wicked, gem, daring, soothe, fantasy and 192 more...
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fifi
verbs Adj Adv noun
indulge, convene, solve, dissolve, prospect, prospective, allege, resolve, accountable, administration, amid, agenda and 407 more...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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fashionaddict's list
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favorite words
ennui, bonhomie, eschew, liaison, serendipity, lovely, dusk, kitten, epitome, sexy, beloved, darling and 396 more...
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mi verba
oscillate, dichotomy, boorish, gloomy, magnanimous, bacchanal, distill
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Setting the Scene: Dark and Dreary
Words that lend to the dark and dreary atmosphere of gothic literature.
dark, dreary, shroud, shrouded, veiled, skeleton, skeletal, dead, death, murky, gloomy, lugubrious and 274 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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Moods
apathy, cuntificate, quixotic, noxious, fetid, malodorous, trepidation, expectancy, contempt, disgust, terror, fear and 149 more...
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