Meaning & Definition of Gloomy in English

1. Depressingly dark

• "The gloomy forest"

• "The glooming interior of an old inn"

• "`gloomful' is archaic"

2. Filled with melancholy and despondency

• "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"

• "Lonely and blue in a strange city"

• "Depressed by the loss of his job"

• "A dispirited and resigned expression on her face"

• "Downcast after his defeat"

• "Feeling discouraged and downhearted"

3. 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"