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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
The piece quoted him as "gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really".
Americans are walking into the holiday season feeling decidedly gloomy about the U.S. economy, according to two new consumer surveys released Friday.
Big picture: The outlook has been gloomy for a while due to concerns about jobs and inflation.
Big picture: The outlook has been gloomy for a while due to concerns about jobs and inflation.
The report also found that prospects for the job market through the end of the year are gloomy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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