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Definition of gloomy:
Synonyms:
inexorable, sepulchral, unrelenting, pitch-black, profane, solemn, grim, blue-blooded, chill, pitchy, low-spirited, blasphemous, aristocratical, doleful, cold, dejected, negative, good-for-nothing, heavy-hearted, cheerless, coloured, sable, woebegone, tenebrific, dusk, down in the mouth, mordant, godforsaken, long-faced, swart, heartsick, dimmed, melancholic, juicy, lonesome, opaque, stern, depressing, spooky, dingy, benighted, droopy, lugubrious, huffish, risque, happy, no-account, grisly, alarming, cast down, darkening, low, grubby, darkling, no-count, blue, muddy, drab, pitiful, puritanic, dreich, olive-drab, uncheerful, sick, inconsolable, comfortless, ghastly, plutonian, racy, unforgiving, regretful, gentle, dark-skinned, depressive, bluish, funereal, grungy, dire, raunchy, hopeless, glum, dispiriting, sober, elegiac, dysphoric, unappeasable, sinister, sorry, saturnine, deplorable, morbid, dirty, eerie, desolate, spicy, unlit, lonely, grimy, drear, sorrowful, good-for-naught, dreary, forbidding, broken, happy, discouraging, scary, fatalistic, tristful, homesick, naughty, heavyhearted, lamentable, chilling, downcast, hope, bad, brokenhearted, mysterious, non-white, caliginous, crestfallen, begrimed, sombre, distressing, Cimmerian, gamy, light, glooming, hangdog, down, sunless, meritless, rayless, relentless, dark, menacing, darkish, macabre, blueish, saddening, pitch-dark, frightening, tenebrous, subdued, no-good, aristocratic, gloomful, muddied, desolate, puritanical, darksome, saddened, stygian, awesome, dismal, gamey, heartsore, sad, disconsolate, unconsolable, intimidating, patrician, gruesome, sluggish, obscured.
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dejected (part of speech: adjective)
- contemplative,
- discouraged,
- disconsolate,
- heartbroken,
- dejected,
- anxious,
- downhearted,
- woeful,
- joyless,
- glum,
- melancholy,
- sullen,
- despondent,
- dreary,
- depressed,
- disheartened,
- overcome,
- grim,
- mournful,
- despairing,
- moody,
- anguished,
- lachrymose,
- morose,
- plaintive,
- wistful,
- sad,
- blue,
- miserable,
- pensive,
- dispirited,
- dolorous
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discontent (part of speech: adjective)
- cheerless,
- disgruntled,
- discontent,
- irreconcilable,
- cross,
- anxious,
- dissident,
- wretched,
- irritated,
- fed up,
- malcontent,
- ungratified,
- discomposed,
- exasperated,
- despondent,
- displeased,
- teed off,
- frustrated,
- sour,
- disapproving,
- non-satisfied,
- anguished,
- joyless,
- restless,
- uncomfortable,
- unhappy,
- uneasy,
- bored,
- miserable,
- ticked off,
- disquieted,
- dissatisfied
- dark (part of speech: adjective)
- gray (part of speech: adjective)
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sullen (part of speech: adjective)
- glowering,
- contrary,
- dour,
- glum,
- fretful,
- sullen,
- scowling,
- cantankerous,
- unfriendly,
- sulky,
- frowning,
- ungenial,
- surly,
- obstinate,
- irascible,
- crabby,
- moody,
- uncooperative,
- unsociable,
- beetle-browed,
- cynical,
- long-faced,
- grim,
- noncooperative,
- moping,
- grouchy,
- hostile,
- cross,
- mean,
- dejected,
- dark,
- malevolent,
- sour,
- petulant,
- melancholy,
- broody,
- grumpy,
- morose,
- dissociable
- hopeless (part of speech: adjective)
Usage examples:
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It was a gloomy evening, and come time for good people to be in- doors, when the big news reached Springhaven.
- "Springhaven A Tale of the Great War", R. D. Blackmore. -
I tell you, Willum,"- he turned a gloomy eye on his companion,-" I tell you, you set too much store by wuthless things."
- "Uncle William The Man Who Was Shif'less", Jennette Lee. -
And as gloomy as the generalissimo's face was that of his brother, the Emperor Francis.
- "Andreas Hofer", Lousia Muhlbach.