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gloomy in WordNet English dictionary
adjective- 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"
gloomy grim blue depressed dispirited down downcast downhearted down in the mouth low low-spirited
- 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"
blue dark dingy disconsolate dismal gloomy grim sorry drab drear dreary
- depressingly dark
"the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"
glooming gloomy gloomful sulky
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