gloomy Synonyms
Strongest:
- depressing
- depressive
- cold
- murky
- darkening
- lonely
- gray
- dark
- bleak
- solemn
- desolate
- somber
- morbid
- grey
Strong:
- saturnine
- miserable
- dismal
- drear
- sullen
- lonesome
- oppressive
- glum
- comfortless
- dreich
- sad
- lugubrious
- blue
- sombre
- black
- wretched
- dire
- melancholy
- tenebrous
- chill
- cheerless
- sepulchral
- unhappy
- funereal
- dreary
- elegiac
- depressed
- cloudy
- morose
- forlorn
- disconsolate
Weak:
- negative
- despondent
- discouraging
- pessimistic
- colorless
- plutonian
- desperate
- menacing
- elegiacal
- grim
- godforsaken
- sunless
- droopy
- dull
- cimmerian
- distressing
- upsetting
- dismaying
- melancholic
- dour
- down
- dispiriting
- hangdog
- low
- sorrowful
- dejected
- threatening
- lamentable
- mirthless
- drab
- dim
- distressful
- woeful
- discomfiting
- mournful
- inconsolable
- tenebrific
- plaintive
- woebegone
- hopeless
- disheartening
Strongest:
- joyful
- joyful
- cheerful
- merry
- cheerful
- buoyant
- cordial
- comforting
- bright
- sunshiny
- friendly
- joyous
- joyous
- bright
- optimistic
- jolly
- buoyant
- festive
- cheery
- cordial
- sunshiny
- gay
- optimistic
- friendly
- comforting
- merry
- festive
- gay
- jolly
- cheery
Strong:
- blithe
- encouraging
- cheering
- hopeful
- heartwarming
- jocund
- heartwarming
- encouraging
- mirthful
- blithesome
- blithe
- gay
- mirthful
- blithesome
- cheering
- hopeful
- gay
- jocund
Weak:
gloomy Meaning
gloomy (s)
depressingly dark
filled with melancholy and despondency
causing dejection
gloomy (superl.)
Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.
Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.
FAQs About the word gloomy
depressingly dark, filled with melancholy and despondency, causing dejectionImperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded;
depressing, depressive, cold, murky, darkening, lonely, gray, dark,bleak, solemn
joyful, joyful, cheerful, merry, cheerful, buoyant, cordial, comforting, bright, sunshiny
The gloomy sky forecasted an afternoon of rain.
His gloomy mood permeated the entire room.
The dreary house stood empty and gloomy for years.
I felt gloomy and disheartened after the news of his passing.
