gloomy
adjective
1. depressingly dark
- the gloomy forest
Similar word(s): dark, gloomful, glooming, sulky
2. filled with melancholy and despondency
- gloomy at the thought of what he had to face
- gloomy predictions
- a gloomy silence
Similar word(s): dejected, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, grim, low
3. causing depression
- a dark gloomy day
Similar word(s): cheerless, depressing, uncheerful, blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, grim, sorry
Sentences with gloomy as an adjective:
- The cavern was gloomy.
- a gloomy temper or countenance