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gloomy
adjective as in dark, black
adjective as in feeling down, blue
Strongest matches
depressed, dismal, dour, forlorn, glum, melancholy, miserable, pessimistic, sad, solemn, sullen, ugly
Weak matches
blue funk, broody, chapfallen, cheerless, crabbed, crestfallen, dejected, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dispirited, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, dragged, in low spirits, in the dumps, joyless, low, mirthless, moody, moping, mopish, morose, mournful, oppressed, saturnine, sulky, surly, unhappy, weary, woebegone, woeful
adjective as in sad, depressing
Strongest matches
bleak, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dreary, dull, funereal, somber
Weak matches
acheronian, acherontic, bad, black, cheerless, cold, comfortless, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dispiriting, drab, dusky, joyless, lugubrious, morose, oppressive, saddening, tenebrific
Example Sentences
Here again the media collaborated, consistently painted a gloomy picture for Biden.
But Weinberg’s 1985 barely known gloomy opera is also a profound demonstration of how and why misplaced power can destroy society.
We’ve learned that Gen Z men are feeling gloomy about the future.
"I think that we've been very gloomy. We're not the gloomy party. We are actually quite an optimistic and fun party and I want to bring that out."
Some business leaders and economists have accused the government of damaging confidence in the economy by presenting a gloomy picture.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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