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Adjective gloomy has 6 senses
- gloomy, grim, darkening - 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"; "the darkening mood"
Antonym: hopeful (indirect, via hopeless)
- dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry - 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
Antonym: cheerful (indirect, via cheerless)
- glooming, gloomy, gloomful - depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"
Antonym: light (indirect, via dark)
- depressing, depressive, gloomy, saddening - causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"
Antonym: glad (indirect, via sad)
- glum, gloomy, long-faced - reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"
Antonym: elated (indirect, via dejected)
- blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim - 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"
Antonym: cheerful (indirect, via cheerless)
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