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Gloomy
adjective (compar. gloomier; superl. gloomiest) 1.Depressingly dark. Synonyms: gloomful, glooming, sulky. "The glooming interior of an old inn" , "'gloomful' is archaic" 2.Filled with melancholy and despondency. Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, grim, low, low-spirited. "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" 3.Causing dejection. Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, grim, sorry. "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"
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