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GLOOMY
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Irregular inflected forms: gloomier , gloomiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Depressingly dark
Example:
'gloomful' is archaic
Synonyms:
gloomful; glooming; gloomy; sulky
Classified under:
Similar:
dark (devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black)
Derivation:
gloom (a state of partial or total darkness)
gloominess (the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Causing dejection
Example:
grim rainy weather
Synonyms:
blue; dark; dingy; disconsolate; dismal; drab; drear; dreary; gloomy; grim; sorry
Classified under:
Similar:
cheerless; depressing; uncheerful (causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Filled with melancholy and despondency
Example:
feeling discouraged and downhearted
Synonyms:
blue; depressed; dispirited; down; down in the mouth; downcast; downhearted; gloomy; grim; low; low-spirited
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
dejected (affected or marked by low spirits)
Derivation:
gloominess (the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness)
gloominess (a feeling of melancholy apprehension)
Context examples:
On the morning of the third day however, the gloomy anticipations of both were almost done away; for when Mr. Harris arrived, he declared his patient materially better.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
A cold and melancholy walk of a couple of miles brought us to a high wooden gate, which opened into a gloomy avenue of chestnuts.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There were several, and those amongst the most experienced, who took the gloomiest view of Harrison’s chances, and it made my heart heavy to overhear them.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I threw down the oar, and leaning my head upon my hands, gave way to every gloomy idea that arose.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
In the gloomier scenarios discussed in the report, sea levels could rise 40 centimeters by 2050, causing losses of up to $1.2 billion in the 22 largest coastal cities in Latin America.
(Brazil's coastal cities more vulnerable to climate change, Agência Brasil)
What could more plainly speak the gloomy workings of a mind not wholly dead to every sense of humanity, in its fearful review of past scenes of guilt?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He was a gloomy, morose fellow, and he showed Curly plainly that all he desired was to be left alone, and further, that there would be trouble if he were not left alone.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
There was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
My dear, do not give way to such gloomy thoughts.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
