Textual thesaurus for "gloomy"

(adj) sulky, gloomful, glooming

depressingly dark

the gloomy forest; the glooming interior of an old inn; `gloomful' is archaic

(adj) grim, sorry, dark, drab, drear, dreary, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, blue

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

(adj) down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, dispirited, depressed, low, low-spirited, grim, blue

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