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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gloomy \Gloom"y\, a. [Compar. {Gloomier}; superl. {Gloomiest}.] 1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as the cavern was gloomy. ``Though hid in gloomiest shade.'' --Milton. 2. Affected with or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as a gloomy temper or countenance. Syn: Dark; dim; dusky; dismal; cloudy; moody; sullen; morose; melancholy; sad; downcast; depressed; dejected; disheartened. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gloomy adj 1: characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy" [syn: {grim}] 2: depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams [syn: {dingy}, {dismal}, {drab}, {drear}, {dreary}, {sorry}] 3: depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" [syn: {glooming}, {gloomful}] 4: causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news" [syn: {depressing}, {depressive}, {saddening}] 5: reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces" [syn: {glum}, {long-faced}] 6: 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" [syn: {blue}, {dark}, {depressing}, {disconsolate}, {dismal}, {dispiriting}, {grim}]
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