What does Gloomy mean?

Definitions for Gloomy
ˈglu migloomy

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulkyadjective

    depressingly dark

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

  2. gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spiritedadjective

    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. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, drearyadjective

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. gloomyadjective

    Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.

    The cavern was gloomy.

  2. gloomyadjective

    Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.

    a gloomy temper or countenance

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Gloomyadjective

    Etymology: from gloom.

    These were from without
    The growing miseries, which Adam saw
    Already in part, though hid in gloomiest shade,
    To sorrow abandon’d. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. x.

    Deep in a cavern dwells the drowsy god,
    Whose gloomy mansion nor the rising sun,
    Nor setting visits, nor the lightsome noon. John Dryden, Fables.

    The surface of the earth is clearer or gloomier, just as the sun is bright or more overcast. Alexander Pope, Letters.

    That fair field
    Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flow’rs,
    Herself a fairer flow’r, by gloomy Dis
    Was gather’d. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. iv.

ChatGPT

  1. gloomy

    Gloomy is an adjective describing something as dark, dim, poorly lit, or characterized by sadness, melancholy, depression or pessimism. It could also refer to anything inspiring or reflecting a feeling of despair or lack of hope. It can be used to describe weather, a place, a person's mood or outlook, or a situation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Gloomy

    imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy

  2. Gloomy

    affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Gloomy in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Gloomy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Gloomy in a Sentence

  1. Owner Suzanne Wade Ehrlich:

    Even in the winter time when it's super gloomy, the whole house is filled with light.

  2. Stephen Hearst:

    My logic back then was very simple, this was an opportunity to clarify the record, to draw the distinction between the fictional character of Charlie Kane and his gloomy Xanadu and WR Hearst and his beautiful architectural masterpiece at the top of the hill at San Simeon.

  3. John Ing:

    You've got a bounce with the energy stocks after days of gloomy news, though it's probably more bargain hunting than anything else, our view is we're still heading for further weakness in energy prices.

  4. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

    Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him

  5. Jean Asselborn:

    The outlook is gloomy ... We have no policy any more. We are heading into anarchy, our credibility is in doubt, and that is very bad for Schengen and the European Union.

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