gloomy Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. adjective satellite depressingly dark
   glooming; gloomful; sulky.
   
   • the gloomy forest
   • the glooming interior of an old inn
   • `gloomful' is archaic
2. adjective satellite filled with melancholy and despondency
   blue; downhearted; dispirited; down in the mouth; depressed; downcast; down; low; low-spirited; grim.
   
   • gloomy at the thought of what he had to face
   • gloomy predictions
   • a gloomy silence
   • took a grim view of the economy
   • the darkening mood
   • lonely and blue in a strange city
   • depressed by the loss of his job
   • a dispirited and resigned expression on her face
   • downcast after his defeat
   • feeling discouraged and downhearted
3. adjective satellite causing dejection
   blue; dingy; drear; disconsolate; dreary; dark; dismal; drab; sorry; grim.
   
   • a blue day
   • the dark days of the war
   • a week of rainy depressing weather
   • a disconsolate winter landscape
   • the first dismal dispiriting days of November
   • a dark gloomy day
   • grim rainy weather

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