Another word for gloomy | Synonyms for gloomy

Another word for gloomy

gloomy Synonyms

gloomy

modif.

Dark
dim, clouded, unlit; see dark 1.
Melancholy
downhearted, depressed, morose; see sad 1.
Encouraging melancholy
dreary, depressing, discouraging; see dismal 1. See syn. study at dark.

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Another word for gloomy

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Dark and depressing:
black, bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, glum, joyless, somber, tenebrific. See happy, light
Broodingly and sullenly unhappy:
dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sulky, sullen, surly. See happy
In low spirits:
blue, dejected, depressed, desolate, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, dull, dysphoric, heavy-hearted, low, melancholic, melancholy, sad, spiritless, tristful, unhappy, wistful. Idiom: down at (or in) the mouth. See happy
Tending to cause sadness or low spirits:
blue, cheerless, depressing, dismal, dispiriting, joyless, melancholy, sad. See happy
Marked by little hopefulness:
dark, dismal, pessimistic. See happy, hope

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The river was very wide and muddy, and the jungle was very gloomy and dense
He was gloomy and absent-minded.
His face was gloomy and his lips compressed.
Pierre's gloomy, unhappy look struck her.
The wanders were rather discouraged by this gloomy report, but Dorothy said with a sigh:

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