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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. depressingly dark;
- Example: "the gloomy forest"
- Example: "the glooming interior of an old inn"
- Example: "`gloomful' is archaic";
[syn: glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky]

2. filled with melancholy and despondency ;
- Example: "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"
- Example: "gloomy predictions"
- Example: "a gloomy silence"
- Example: "took a grim view of the economy"
- Example: "the darkening mood"
- Example: "lonely and blue in a strange city"
- Example: "depressed by the loss of his job"
- Example: "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"
- Example: "downcast after his defeat"
- Example: "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
[syn: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited]

3. causing dejection;
- Example: "a blue day"
- Example: "the dark days of the war"
- Example: "a week of rainy depressing weather"
- Example: "a disconsolate winter landscape"
- Example: "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"
- Example: "a dark gloomy day"
- Example: "grim rainy weather"
[syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Gloomy \Gloom"y\, a. [Compar. Gloomier; superl. Gloomiest.]
   1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or
      darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.
      "Though hid in gloomiest shade." --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected;
      as, a gloomy temper or countenance.

   Syn: Dark; dim; dusky; dismal; cloudy; moody; sullen; morose;
        melancholy; sad; downcast; depressed; dejected;
        disheartened.
        [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

gloomy
    adj 1: depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming
           interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" [syn:
           glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky]
    2: filled with melancholy and despondency ; "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" [syn:
       gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited,
       down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth,
       low, low-spirited]
    3: causing dejection; "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" [syn: blue,
       dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim,
       sorry, drab, drear, dreary]