| a. | 1. | Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; |
| 2. | Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; |
| Adj. | 1. | gloomy - characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "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" |
| 2. | gloomy - depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams | |
| 3. | gloomy - depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" | |
| 4. | gloomy - causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news" | |
| 5. | gloomy - reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces" Synonyms: glum, long-faced | |
| 6. | gloomy - 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" |