gloomy
Gloomy means “dark and dreary.” A cloudy day, a sad song about lost love, your downbeat mood after your team loses a big game — all of these can be called gloomy.
Have you ever been called a Gloomy Gus? If so, you must have been acting depressed or sulky. But you aren’t the first to be called that — after all, Gloomy Gus was a comic book character who first appeared in 1904. By the 1940s, this nickname caught on, describing — and possibly adding to the misery — of those who are less happy-seeming than the people around them.
Definitions of gloomy
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depressingly dark
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filled with melancholy and despondency
“gloomy at the thought of what he had to face”“gloomy predictions”“a
gloomy silence”-
synonyms:
blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, grim, low, low-spirited-
dejected
affected or marked by low spirits
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dejected
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causing dejection
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cheerless, depressing, uncheerful
causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
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cheerless, depressing, uncheerful
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