gloomy

gloom·y  (glm)

adj. gloom·i·er, gloom·i·est

1. Partially or totally dark, especially dismal and dreary: a damp, gloomy day.

2. Showing or filled with gloom: gloomy faces.

3.

a. Causing or producing gloom; depressing: gloomy news.

b. Marked by hopelessness; very pessimistic: gloomy predictions.

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gloomi·ly adv.

gloomi·ness n.

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gloomy

Adjective

[gloomier, gloomiest]

1. despairing or sad

2. causing depression or gloom: gloomy economic forecasts

3. dark or dismal

gloomily adv

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	gloomy - depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" gloomful, glooming, sulky dark - devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat"
	2.	gloomy - 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" down in the mouth, downhearted, low-spirited, downcast, dispirited, blue, depressed, grim, down, low dejected - affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"
	3.	gloomy - 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" dismal, drear, dreary, disconsolate, dingy, drab, sorry, grim, blue, dark cheerless, depressing, uncheerful - causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"

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gloomy

adjective 1. dark, dull, dim, dismal, black, grey, obscure, murky, dreary, sombre, shadowy, overcast, dusky << OPPOSITE light

adjective 2. miserable, down, sad, dismal, low, blue, pessimistic, melancholy, glum, dejected, despondent, dispirited, downcast, joyless, downhearted, down in the dumps (informal) cheerless, down in the mouth, in low spirits << OPPOSITE happy

adjective 3. depressing, bad, dismal, dreary, black, saddening, sombre, dispiriting, disheartening, funereal, cheerless, comfortless

Translations

gloomy [ˈgluːmɪ] adj (= dark) → oscuro (= sad); triste (= pessimistic); pesimista;

to feel gloomy → sentirse pesimista

gloomy [ˈgluːmɪ] gloom adj [+ person] → morose [+ place, outlook]; sombre;

to feel gloomy → avoir or se faire des idées noires

gloomy [ˈgluːmɪ] gloom adj → düster;

(person) → bedrückt;

(situation) → bedrückend

gloomy [ˈgluːmɪ] adj → fosco/a, triste;

to feel gloomy → sentirsi giù or depresso