Synonyms

darkening grim

Examples

"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"

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hopeless

Synonyms

dreary dismal sorry drear drab dingy

Examples

"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

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cheerless

Synonyms

gloomful glooming

Examples

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

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dark

Synonyms

glum long-faced

Examples

"gloomy faces"

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dejected

Synonyms

depressive saddening depressing

Examples

"a gloomy outlook" "gloomy news"

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sad

Synonyms

dark depressing grim disconsolate dispiriting dismal blue

Examples

"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"

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