gloomy

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adjective

1. depressingly dark (Freq. 1)
- the gloomy forest
- the glooming interior of an old inn
- 'gloomful' is archaic
• Syn:
glooming, gloomful, sulky
• Similar to:
dark
• Derivationally related forms:
gloom, gloominess
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:
grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down,
downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited
• Similar to:
dejected
• Derivationally related forms:
lowness (for: low), downheartedness (for: downhearted), dispiritedness (for: dispirited), gloominess, low-spiritedness (for: 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,
grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
• Similar to:
depressing, cheerless, uncheerful
• Derivationally related forms:
dreariness (for: dreary)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  glooming, gloomful, sulky