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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GLOOM'Y, a. [from gloom.] Obscure; imperfectly illuminated; or dark; dismal; as the gloomy cells of a convent; the gloomy shades of night.
1. Wearing the aspect of sorrow; melancholy; clouded; dejected; depressed; heavy of heart; as a gloomy countenance or state of mind; a gloomy temper.
2. Of a dark complexion. [Little used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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, 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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (gloomier; -est) Date: 1588 1. a. partially or totally dark; especially dismally and depressingly dark <gloomy weather> b. having a frowning or scowling appearance ; forbidding <a gloomy countenance> c. low in spirits ; melancholy 2. a. causing gloom ; depressing <a gloomy story> <a gloomy landscape> b. lacking in promise or hopefulness ; pessimistic <gloomy prophecies> <a gloomy future> Synonyms: see dismal, sullen • gloomily adverb • gloominess noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (gloomier, gloomiest) 1 dark; unlighted. 2 depressed; sullen. 3 dismal; depressing. Derivatives: gloomily adv. gloominess n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(gloomier, gloomiest) 1. If a place is gloomy, it is almost dark so that you cannot see very well. Inside it's gloomy after all that sunshine... ...this huge gloomy church. ADJ 2. If people are gloomy, they are unhappy and have no hope. Miller is gloomy about the fate of the serious playwright in America. = despondent ADJ • gloomily He tells me gloomily that he has been called up for army service. ADV: ADV with v 3. If a situation is gloomy, it does not give you much hope of success or happiness. ...a gloomy picture of an economy sliding into recession... Officials say the outlook for next year is gloomy. = grim ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Obscure, dark, dim, dusky. 2. Dismal, cheerless, lowering, lurid. 3. Sad, dejected, depressed, dispirited, disheartened, despondent, desponding, melancholy, downcast, crestfallen, chapfallen, down-hearted, glum, heavy of heart. 4. Depressing, dispiriting, saddening, sad, disheartening, melancholy, heavy, dark.

Moby Thesaurus

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