gloomy

gloomy
    adj 1: depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming
           interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" [syn:
           {glooming}, {gloomy}, {gloomful}, {sulky}]
    2: 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" [syn:
       {gloomy}, {grim}, {blue}, {depressed}, {dispirited},
       {down(p)}, {downcast}, {downhearted}, {down in the mouth},
       {low}, {low-spirited}]
    3: 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" [syn: {blue},
       {dark}, {dingy}, {disconsolate}, {dismal}, {gloomy}, {grim},
       {sorry}, {drab}, {drear}, {dreary}]
    

Gloomy \Gloom"y\, a. [Compar. {Gloomier}; superl. {Gloomiest}.]
   1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or
      darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.
      "Though hid in gloomiest shade." --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected;
      as, a gloomy temper or countenance.

   Syn: Dark; dim; dusky; dismal; cloudy; moody; sullen; morose;
        melancholy; sad; downcast; depressed; dejected;
        disheartened.
        [1913 Webster]
    

156 Moby Thesaurus words for "gloomy":
      Acheronian, Acherontic, Cassandra-like, Cassandran, Cassandrian,
      Cimmerian, Stygian, acheronian, acherontic, apocalyptic, bad,
      baleful, baneful, black, bleak, blue, bodeful, boding, caliginous,
      castellatus, cheerless, cirrose, cirrous, cloud-flecked, clouded,
      cloudy, cold, crabbed, crestfallen, cumuliform, cumulous, cynical,
      dark, dark and gloomy, defeatist, dejected, depressant, depressed,
      depressing, depressive, desolate, despairing, despondent, dim,
      dire, dirty, disconsolate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal,
      dispirited, dispiriting, distressed, doleful, doomful, dour, down,
      downbeat, downcast, downhearted, drab, drear, drearisome, dreary,
      dull, dun, dusky, evil, evil-starred, fateful, foreboding, forlorn,
      funebrial, funereal, gloomful, glooming, glum, grave, gray, grim,
      heavy, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-lighted, ill-lit,
      ill-omened, ill-starred, in the doldrums, inauspicious, inky,
      joyless, lenticularis, lowering, lugubrious, mammatus, melancholy,
      menacing, mirthless, miserable, moody, morose, murky, muzzy,
      nebulous, negative, negativistic, nihilistic, nimbose, nubilous,
      obscure, of evil portent, ominous, oppressed, oppressive, overcast,
      overclouded, pessimist, pessimistic, portending, portentous, sad,
      saturnine, shaded, shadowy, shady, sinister, solemn, somber,
      sombrous, sorrowful, squally, stormy, stratiform, stratous, sulky,
      sullen, surly, tenebrous, threatening, thunderheaded, triste, ugly,
      uncheerful, unfavorable, unfortunate, unhappy, unilluminated,
      unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward, weariful, wearisome,
      weary, woebegone