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GLOOMY

Definition:

1. [adjective] characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "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"
   Synonyms: grim, darkening
   
   
2. [adjective] depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams
   Synonyms: dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, sorry
   
   
3. [adjective] depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"
   Synonyms: glooming, gloomful
   
   
4. [adjective] causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"
   Synonyms: depressing, depressive, saddening
   
   
5. [adjective] reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"
   Synonyms: glum, long-faced
   
   
6. [adjective] 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: blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, grim
   
   

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