Hypertext Webster Gateway: "gloomy"
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) 1.7 (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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