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Synonyms for gloomy
ˈglu migloomy
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
gloomy
Strictly, that which is black is absolutely destitute of color; that which is dark is absolutely destitute of light. In common speech, however, a coat is black, tho not optically colorless; the night is dark, tho the stars shine. That is obscure, shadowy, or shady from which the light is more or less cut off. Dusky is applied to objects which appear as if viewed in fading light; the word is often used, as are swart and swarthy, of the human skin when quite dark, or even verging toward black. Dim refers to imperfection of outline, from distance, darkness, mist, etc., or from some defect of vision. Opaque objects, as smoked glass, are impervious to light. Murky is said of that which is at once dark, obscure, and gloomy; as, a murky den; a murky sky. Figuratively, dark is emblematic of sadness, agreeing with somber, dismal, gloomy, also of moral evil; as, a dark deed. Of intellectual matters, dark is now rarely used in the old sense of a dark saying, etc. See MYSTERIOUS; OBSCURE.
Compare synonyms for LIGHT.
Synonyms:
black, dark, dim, dismal, dusky, murky, mysterious, obscure, opaque, sable, shadowy, shady, somber, swart, swarthyAntonyms:
bright, brilliant, clear, crystalline, dazzling, gleaming, glowing, illumined, light, lucid, luminous, radiant, shining, transparent, white
Princeton's WordNet
glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulkyadjective
depressingly dark
"the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"
Synonyms:
down(p), dreary, dispirited, downhearted, glooming, downcast, dingy, drear, grim, huffish, gloomful, depressed, dismal, blue, sulky, dark, sluggish, drab, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited, sorry, disconsolategloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spiritedadjective
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"
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, drearyadjective
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"
Synonyms:
black, blueish, non-white, gloomful, stern, unappeasable, ghastly, moody, forbidding, relentless, dingy, raunchy, bluish, mordant, sorry, risque, gruesome, depressed, dirty, gamey, down in the mouth, low, sinister, olive-drab, lamentable, muddied, unrelenting, sullen, juicy, sulky, bad, meritless, low-spirited, saturnine, good-for-naught, dispirited, gamy, down(p), grisly, good-for-nothing, dark, naughty, unconsolable, benighted, sad, muddy, sober, gentle, grubby, grungy, dark-skinned, aristocratic, inconsolable, racy, regretful, somber, spicy, blue-blooded, blue, puritanical, no-count, drear, macabre, disconsolate, no-account, dreary, grimy, coloured, inexorable, puritanic, aristocratical, no-good, deplorable, glowering, morose, pitiful, patrician, profane, blasphemous, sombre, drab, glum, unforgiving, glooming, sour, blue(a), downcast, downhearted, distressing, dour, obscure, sick, grim, dismal, begrimed
Dictionary of English Synonymes
gloomyadjective
Synonyms:
obscure, dark, dim, dusky, dismal, cheerless, lowering, luridgloomyadjective
Synonyms:
sad, dejected, depressed, dispirited, disheartened, despondent, desponding, melancholy, downcast, crest-fallen, chap-fallen, down-hearted, glum, heavy of heart
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
gloomyadjective
Synonyms:
dark, dismal, obscure, dim, shaded, lowering, overcast, lurid, melancholy, dejected, sad, despondent, pessimistic, disheartened, morose, crestfallen, glum, saturnine, disheartening, depressing, discouraging
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How to use gloomy in a sentence?
Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so overflowing, with love so tender, with sympathy so exquisite, with power so illimitable, with resources so boundless, with a nature so changeless, stands before us and says to each trembling heart, 'Fear not!'”
Beyond the unacknowledged mental gate imprisoned deeply within the gloomy unknown of the ignorant mind lies your answer.
My logic back then was very simple, this was an opportunity to clarify the record, to draw the distinction between the fictional character of Charlie Kane and his gloomy Xanadu and WR Hearst and his beautiful architectural masterpiece at the top of the hill at San Simeon.
I agree dry bulk looks gloomy but we feel we're much closer to the end of this part of a downcycle than we are to the beginning.
Credit risk concerns, lack of credible asset quality, balance sheet issues and a lack of reserves... all this makes for gloomy reading for those with EU bank exposure.
Translations for gloomy
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- كئيبArabic
- temný, sklíčený, pochmurnýCzech
- dysterDanish
- finster, düster, trübeGerman
- sombraEsperanto
- oscuro, lóbregoSpanish
- kolkko, hämärä, hämyinen, iloton, synkkä, ankea, synkeä, surumielinen, pimeäFinnish
- morne, sombre, terne, mélancolique, lugubre, maussadeFrench
- gruama, doilbhir, duaircIrish
- doilleir, ciar, gruamach, dubhachScottish Gaelic
- קודר, אפלHebrew
- melankolikus, sötét, homályos, mélabúsHungarian
- մթին, աղոտ, մռայլArmenian
- suramIndonesian
- uggioso, tetro, cupo, lugubreItalian
- 陰気, 薄暗いJapanese
- დაღვრემილიGeorgian
- tristisLatin
- niūrusLithuanian
- taupuruMāori
- duister, benauwd, melancholisch, donkerDutch
- dystertNorwegian
- mrocznyPolish
- obscuro, trevas, escuro, melancólico, triste, pessimistaPortuguese
- sumbruRomanian
- хмурый, мрачный, безотрадный, угрюмый, безрадостный, печальныйRussian
- mráčan, támānSerbo-Croatian
- pochmúrny, zasmušilý, ponurý, skľúčený, pošmúrnySlovak
- otoženSlovene
- dysterSwedish
- இருண்டTamil
- kasvetliTurkish
- похмурий, сумнийUkrainian
- פאַרומערטYiddish
- 陰沉Chinese
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