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gloomy
adjective as in dark, black
adjective as in feeling down, blue
Strongest matches
depressed, dismal, dour, forlorn, glum, melancholy, miserable, pessimistic, sad, solemn, sullen, ugly
Weak matches
blue funk, broody, chapfallen, cheerless, crabbed, crestfallen, dejected, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dispirited, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, dragged, in low spirits, in the dumps, joyless, low, mirthless, moody, moping, mopish, morose, mournful, oppressed, saturnine, sulky, surly, unhappy, weary, woebegone, woeful
adjective as in sad, depressing
Strongest matches
bleak, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dreary, dull, funereal, somber
Weak matches
acheronian, acherontic, bad, black, cheerless, cold, comfortless, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dispiriting, drab, dusky, joyless, lugubrious, morose, oppressive, saddening, tenebrific
Example Sentences
I ended up with a string of the gloomiest conversations in my long career — and I’ve covered two foreign civil wars and more stock market crashes and economic slumps than I can count.
By the time they came to bat in gloomy conditions with the floodlights on, South Africa looked a beaten side.
“I move through life very organically. I’m not much of a future planner,” she says through a Zoom call on an unusually gloomy summer afternoon.
"On the ground floor there were no windows. It felt like you were in a hospital in the basement. It was a slightly gloomy place, a gloomy rabbit warren."
"Everything was so dark and so gloomy," she said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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