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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 chancellor has promised to "defy" gloomy forecasts for the UK economy after it emerged the government is facing a bigger-than-expected hole in the public finances.
The chancellor has vowed to "defy" gloomy forecasts for the UK economy after it emerged the government is facing a bigger-than-expected hole in the public finances.
In a July Wall Street Journal-NORC poll that examined Americans’ economic views, the most common respondent was someone comfortable with his or her own finances but gloomy about the economy’s future.
She is widely expected to increase taxes following gloomy economic forecasts and a series of U-turns on cuts to welfare spending, which have made it more difficult for her to meet her self-imposed borrowing rules.
Whatever the contributory factors, Labour are gloomy here, even on their upbeat days.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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