Definition of gloomy in English:

gloomy

adjectivegloomiest, gloomier ˈɡluːmiˈɡlumi

1Dark or poorly lit, especially so as to appear depressing or frightening.
黑暗的；光线不好的（尤指看起来压抑或恐怖）
a gloomy corridor badly lit by oil lamps
用油灯照明的阴森森的走廊。
Example sentencesExamples
- Gradually he became an outcast, and on a dark gloomy day, he took a vow.
- If by now you imagine yourself spending your day in dark, gloomy caves, staring at bones, you can forget about it.
- Gone forever was the dark and gloomy look, to say nothing of slippery floors and stuffy odours.
- The sea is sparkling, the drowned city is dark, and gloomy.
- They then scurried into the shadows provided in a dark and gloomy alley.
- Our school is still fantastic inside but from the outside, with its boarded up windows, it appears gloomy, horrible and derelict.
- The room didn't appear gloomy or depressing, but it still had this certain aura of darkness wrapped around it.
- For instance when its dark and gloomy you miss the sunshine so it depresses you.
- Or you might want to follow the route, looking for phantoms on a suitably dark and gloomy night.
- There was no light on up there, and it was very dark and gloomy.
- She thought of Mae to grant her some more confidence, as she approached the last door in the dark and gloomy corridor.
- He never noticed it before, but the door was dark and gloomy.
- We explored lots of gloomy, wet and dark alleys.
- Hesitating she stepped into the gloomy dark, dank hall.
- I believe it is still up there because otherwise it would be pitch dark instead of just gloomy.
- This used to be a dark, gloomy platform with peeling paint on the walls and a grimy low ceiling.
- The supernatural thriller takes place in the gloomy, dark dismal backwoods outside New Orleans.
- The dark and gloomy colours of the works contrast with the whiteness of the hall's interior.
- This morning, there has been no rain, but the sky still looks dark and gloomy.
- The limo windows were tinted, making it appear dark and gloomy outside.
Synonyms
dark, ill-lit, poorly lit, shadowy, sunless, dim, sombre, dingy, frowzy, drab, dismal, dreary, murky, depressing, unwelcoming, uninviting, cheerless, joyless, comfortless, funereal
grey, leaden, overcast, cloudy
literary crepuscular, tenebrous
rare Stygian, Tartarean, caliginous, subfusc
2Causing or feeling depression or despondency.
gloomy forecasts about the economy
Example sentencesExamples
- The gloomy forecast will come as a blow to the struggling industry, which was only just beginning to recover from the effects of the foot and mouth crisis earlier this year.
- It cast a gloomy atmosphere around the station, which did not enhance her mood.
- The gloomy atmosphere of the church radiated around the pedestal.
- The album maintains a gloomy atmosphere, but the feeling modulates.
- Like other hardware and chip makers, the company said it saw no turnaround in its fortunes and gave a gloomy forecast of falling computer sales.
- A man is sometimes despondent from disappointment, is gloomy, and has no courage to work.
- When I turned on the radio it was to be told that, contrary to yesterday's gloomy forecast, the weather is to become mild again for the days running up to Christmas.
- The atmosphere during those closing moments was gloomy, depressing and discouraging.
- There was hardly a light in the place; the dimness set a gloomy atmosphere in the office.
- Lauren dreaded walking inside again; the gloomy atmosphere was depressing and made her miss her father even more.
- It wasn't only the threat of war and the worsening economic outlook that contributed to the gloomy atmosphere.
- So it is with the man himself: an essential sweetness of nature pickled in a brine of gloomy despondency.
- With companies planning to shed jobs it adds up to the prospect of a gloomy winter.
- The joyful ones also tend to draw more friends, who would rather bathe in the sunshine of happiness than to be cast down into a gloomy depression.
- They say it is too gloomy, too dark, not a happy subject.
- The number of rebels was far in excess of even the most gloomy government forecast.
- Yet fewer still are - in private - able to hide their sense of gloomy despondency.
- The concrete was moist and cold, and the atmosphere was cold and gloomy.
- All of a sudden, the gloomy atmosphere of the time stop disappeared.
- The gloomy prospect of unemployment and poverty, of insecurity and war is frightening us.
Synonyms
despondent, downcast, downhearted, dejected, disconsolate, dispirited, crestfallen, cast down, depressed, disappointed, disheartened, discouraged, demoralized, desolate, heavy-hearted, in low spirits, low-spirited, sad, unhappy, glum, full of gloom, doleful, melancholy, miserable, woebegone, mournful, sorrowful, forlorn, long-faced, fed up, in the doldrums, subdued, wretched, lugubrious, Eeyorish, morose, sepulchral, saturnine, dour, mirthless, woeful
informal blue, down, down in the mouth, down in the dumps
British informal brassed off, cheesed off, looking as if one had lost a pound and found a penny
literary dolorous
archaic chap-fallen, adust
pessimistic, depressing, downbeat, looking on the black side, disheartening, disappointing, dispiriting, unpromising, unfavourable, bleak, bad, dark, black, sombre, melancholy, saddening, distressing, grim, cheerless, comfortless, hopeless

Derivatives

gloomily

adverb ˈɡluːmɪli

So how disappointing, how gloomily predictable, that the proposed new footbridge is being greeted with the usual grumbling hostility.
Example sentencesExamples
- Publishers mutter gloomily that while there are a huge number of children's books out there, there hasn't actually been a rise in the number of authors selling books.
- ‘There is no prospect of government taking a lead,’ they observe, gloomily.
- Britain seems unable to escape the ghosts of Victorian engineers and Victorian novelists who so gloomily overshadow our own productions.
- And once it had become clear that her every question about my school would be answered gloomily, she stopped asking.

gloominess

noun ˈɡluːmɪnəsˈɡluminəs

It was a dark, rambling, badly-lit Victorian pile, but at the time its ponderous gloominess appealed to my over-developed taste for the Gothic.
Example sentencesExamples
- It's easy to make a movie that looks dark without having any darkness to it, but this is a film with a core gloominess and sadness and danger that feels real.
- These past days I had felt fine - despite the gloominess and pessimism - and hadn't felt sorry for anyone but myself.
- For the last 5 or 6 days I've been surpassing even myself in gloominess.
- Aerobic exercise can ease the gloominess of depression and the tension associated with anxiety.

Rhymes

fumy, plumy, rheumy, roomie, roomy, spumy

Definition of gloomy in US English:

gloomy

adjectiveˈɡlumiˈɡlo͞omē

1Dark or poorly lit, especially so as to appear depressing or frightening.
黑暗的；光线不好的（尤指看起来压抑或恐怖）
a gloomy corridor
Example sentencesExamples
- This morning, there has been no rain, but the sky still looks dark and gloomy.
- He never noticed it before, but the door was dark and gloomy.
- Or you might want to follow the route, looking for phantoms on a suitably dark and gloomy night.
- The sea is sparkling, the drowned city is dark, and gloomy.
- She thought of Mae to grant her some more confidence, as she approached the last door in the dark and gloomy corridor.
- We explored lots of gloomy, wet and dark alleys.
- Gone forever was the dark and gloomy look, to say nothing of slippery floors and stuffy odours.
- The room didn't appear gloomy or depressing, but it still had this certain aura of darkness wrapped around it.
- The dark and gloomy colours of the works contrast with the whiteness of the hall's interior.
- For instance when its dark and gloomy you miss the sunshine so it depresses you.
- They then scurried into the shadows provided in a dark and gloomy alley.
- Hesitating she stepped into the gloomy dark, dank hall.
- There was no light on up there, and it was very dark and gloomy.
- Gradually he became an outcast, and on a dark gloomy day, he took a vow.
- This used to be a dark, gloomy platform with peeling paint on the walls and a grimy low ceiling.
- If by now you imagine yourself spending your day in dark, gloomy caves, staring at bones, you can forget about it.
- The limo windows were tinted, making it appear dark and gloomy outside.
- The supernatural thriller takes place in the gloomy, dark dismal backwoods outside New Orleans.
- Our school is still fantastic inside but from the outside, with its boarded up windows, it appears gloomy, horrible and derelict.
- I believe it is still up there because otherwise it would be pitch dark instead of just gloomy.
Synonyms
dark, ill-lit, poorly lit, shadowy, sunless, dim, sombre, dingy, frowzy, drab, dismal, dreary, murky, depressing, unwelcoming, uninviting, cheerless, joyless, comfortless, funereal
1. 1.1 Feeling distressed or pessimistic.
  感到悲伤（或悲观）的
  I am by no means gloomy about the prospects for domestic industry
  我对英国工业的前景一点也不悲观。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Another day and another record broken by the Japanese economy, fuelling those pessimists who are increasingly gloomy about the world economy.
  One can only hope that such a gloomy view is unduly pessimistic.
  And some of our guests were in a pretty gloomy mood.
  She feels so gloomy, yet she did not know why?
  ‘Don't look so gloomy, Sean,’ he said.
  It was a pivotal moment in his presidency, making him seem pessimistic and gloomy in an un-American fashion.
  He couldn't understand why he was feeling so gloomy today.
  And then it came to him: that was why he was feeling gloomy.
  He could sense her gloomy mood, but knew better than to question her.
  Early reviews that helped shape this gloomy evaluation may have been overly pessimistic in their conclusions.
  I was in quite a gloomy state, after a potential marriage prospect fell through.
  Realising that the landscape was making her feel gloomier, she drew back the curtain and stood back.
  Those fearing a rise have tended to be dismissed by the government's supporters as pessimists with too gloomy a view on the economy.
  So many people are pessimistic right now that the chances seem so gloomy.
  She's the one who always bring everyone down in a gloomy mood.
  His films have become increasingly gloomy and pessimistic, even morbidly so.
  Synonyms
  despondent, downcast, downhearted, dejected, disconsolate, dispirited, crestfallen, cast down, depressed, disappointed, disheartened, discouraged, demoralized, desolate, heavy-hearted, in low spirits, low-spirited, sad, unhappy, glum, full of gloom, doleful, melancholy, miserable, woebegone, mournful, sorrowful, forlorn, long-faced, fed up, in the doldrums, subdued, wretched, lugubrious, eeyorish, morose, sepulchral, saturnine, dour, mirthless, woeful
  pessimistic, depressing, downbeat, looking on the black side, disheartening, disappointing, dispiriting, unpromising, unfavourable, bleak, bad, dark, black, sombre, melancholy, saddening, distressing, grim, cheerless, comfortless, hopeless
2. 1.2 Causing distress or depression.
  感到悲伤（或悲观）的
  a gloomy atmosphere
  令人沮丧的气氛。

单词	gloomy
释义	Definition of gloomy in English: gloomy adjectivegloomiest, gloomier ˈɡluːmiˈɡlumi 1Dark or poorly lit, especially so as to appear depressing or frightening. 黑暗的；光线不好的（尤指看起来压抑或恐怖） a gloomy corridor badly lit by oil lamps 用油灯照明的阴森森的走廊。 Example sentencesExamples Gradually he became an outcast, and on a dark gloomy day, he took a vow. If by now you imagine yourself spending your day in dark, gloomy caves, staring at bones, you can forget about it. Gone forever was the dark and gloomy look, to say nothing of slippery floors and stuffy odours. The sea is sparkling, the drowned city is dark, and gloomy. They then scurried into the shadows provided in a dark and gloomy alley. Our school is still fantastic inside but from the outside, with its boarded up windows, it appears gloomy, horrible and derelict. The room didn't appear gloomy or depressing, but it still had this certain aura of darkness wrapped around it. For instance when its dark and gloomy you miss the sunshine so it depresses you. Or you might want to follow the route, looking for phantoms on a suitably dark and gloomy night. There was no light on up there, and it was very dark and gloomy. She thought of Mae to grant her some more confidence, as she approached the last door in the dark and gloomy corridor. He never noticed it before, but the door was dark and gloomy. We explored lots of gloomy, wet and dark alleys. Hesitating she stepped into the gloomy dark, dank hall. I believe it is still up there because otherwise it would be pitch dark instead of just gloomy. This used to be a dark, gloomy platform with peeling paint on the walls and a grimy low ceiling. The supernatural thriller takes place in the gloomy, dark dismal backwoods outside New Orleans. The dark and gloomy colours of the works contrast with the whiteness of the hall's interior. This morning, there has been no rain, but the sky still looks dark and gloomy. The limo windows were tinted, making it appear dark and gloomy outside. Synonyms dark, ill-lit, poorly lit, shadowy, sunless, dim, sombre, dingy, frowzy, drab, dismal, dreary, murky, depressing, unwelcoming, uninviting, cheerless, joyless, comfortless, funereal grey, leaden, overcast, cloudy literary crepuscular, tenebrous rare Stygian, Tartarean, caliginous, subfusc 2Causing or feeling depression or despondency. gloomy forecasts about the economy Example sentencesExamples The gloomy forecast will come as a blow to the struggling industry, which was only just beginning to recover from the effects of the foot and mouth crisis earlier this year. It cast a gloomy atmosphere around the station, which did not enhance her mood. The gloomy atmosphere of the church radiated around the pedestal. The album maintains a gloomy atmosphere, but the feeling modulates. Like other hardware and chip makers, the company said it saw no turnaround in its fortunes and gave a gloomy forecast of falling computer sales. A man is sometimes despondent from disappointment, is gloomy, and has no courage to work. When I turned on the radio it was to be told that, contrary to yesterday's gloomy forecast, the weather is to become mild again for the days running up to Christmas. The atmosphere during those closing moments was gloomy, depressing and discouraging. There was hardly a light in the place; the dimness set a gloomy atmosphere in the office. Lauren dreaded walking inside again; the gloomy atmosphere was depressing and made her miss her father even more. It wasn't only the threat of war and the worsening economic outlook that contributed to the gloomy atmosphere. So it is with the man himself: an essential sweetness of nature pickled in a brine of gloomy despondency. With companies planning to shed jobs it adds up to the prospect of a gloomy winter. The joyful ones also tend to draw more friends, who would rather bathe in the sunshine of happiness than to be cast down into a gloomy depression. They say it is too gloomy, too dark, not a happy subject. The number of rebels was far in excess of even the most gloomy government forecast. Yet fewer still are - in private - able to hide their sense of gloomy despondency. The concrete was moist and cold, and the atmosphere was cold and gloomy. All of a sudden, the gloomy atmosphere of the time stop disappeared. The gloomy prospect of unemployment and poverty, of insecurity and war is frightening us. Synonyms despondent, downcast, downhearted, dejected, disconsolate, dispirited, crestfallen, cast down, depressed, disappointed, disheartened, discouraged, demoralized, desolate, heavy-hearted, in low spirits, low-spirited, sad, unhappy, glum, full of gloom, doleful, melancholy, miserable, woebegone, mournful, sorrowful, forlorn, long-faced, fed up, in the doldrums, subdued, wretched, lugubrious, Eeyorish, morose, sepulchral, saturnine, dour, mirthless, woeful informal blue, down, down in the mouth, down in the dumps British informal brassed off, cheesed off, looking as if one had lost a pound and found a penny literary dolorous archaic chap-fallen, adust pessimistic, depressing, downbeat, looking on the black side, disheartening, disappointing, dispiriting, unpromising, unfavourable, bleak, bad, dark, black, sombre, melancholy, saddening, distressing, grim, cheerless, comfortless, hopeless Derivatives gloomily adverb ˈɡluːmɪli So how disappointing, how gloomily predictable, that the proposed new footbridge is being greeted with the usual grumbling hostility. Example sentencesExamples Publishers mutter gloomily that while there are a huge number of children's books out there, there hasn't actually been a rise in the number of authors selling books. ‘There is no prospect of government taking a lead,’ they observe, gloomily. Britain seems unable to escape the ghosts of Victorian engineers and Victorian novelists who so gloomily overshadow our own productions. And once it had become clear that her every question about my school would be answered gloomily, she stopped asking. gloominess noun ˈɡluːmɪnəsˈɡluminəs It was a dark, rambling, badly-lit Victorian pile, but at the time its ponderous gloominess appealed to my over-developed taste for the Gothic. Example sentencesExamples It's easy to make a movie that looks dark without having any darkness to it, but this is a film with a core gloominess and sadness and danger that feels real. These past days I had felt fine - despite the gloominess and pessimism - and hadn't felt sorry for anyone but myself. For the last 5 or 6 days I've been surpassing even myself in gloominess. Aerobic exercise can ease the gloominess of depression and the tension associated with anxiety. Rhymes fumy, plumy, rheumy, roomie, roomy, spumy Definition of gloomy in US English: gloomy adjectiveˈɡlumiˈɡlo͞omē 1Dark or poorly lit, especially so as to appear depressing or frightening. 黑暗的；光线不好的（尤指看起来压抑或恐怖） a gloomy corridor Example sentencesExamples This morning, there has been no rain, but the sky still looks dark and gloomy. He never noticed it before, but the door was dark and gloomy. Or you might want to follow the route, looking for phantoms on a suitably dark and gloomy night. The sea is sparkling, the drowned city is dark, and gloomy. She thought of Mae to grant her some more confidence, as she approached the last door in the dark and gloomy corridor. We explored lots of gloomy, wet and dark alleys. Gone forever was the dark and gloomy look, to say nothing of slippery floors and stuffy odours. The room didn't appear gloomy or depressing, but it still had this certain aura of darkness wrapped around it. The dark and gloomy colours of the works contrast with the whiteness of the hall's interior. For instance when its dark and gloomy you miss the sunshine so it depresses you. They then scurried into the shadows provided in a dark and gloomy alley. Hesitating she stepped into the gloomy dark, dank hall. There was no light on up there, and it was very dark and gloomy. Gradually he became an outcast, and on a dark gloomy day, he took a vow. This used to be a dark, gloomy platform with peeling paint on the walls and a grimy low ceiling. If by now you imagine yourself spending your day in dark, gloomy caves, staring at bones, you can forget about it. The limo windows were tinted, making it appear dark and gloomy outside. The supernatural thriller takes place in the gloomy, dark dismal backwoods outside New Orleans. Our school is still fantastic inside but from the outside, with its boarded up windows, it appears gloomy, horrible and derelict. I believe it is still up there because otherwise it would be pitch dark instead of just gloomy. Synonyms dark, ill-lit, poorly lit, shadowy, sunless, dim, sombre, dingy, frowzy, drab, dismal, dreary, murky, depressing, unwelcoming, uninviting, cheerless, joyless, comfortless, funereal 1.1 Feeling distressed or pessimistic. 感到悲伤（或悲观）的 I am by no means gloomy about the prospects for domestic industry 我对英国工业的前景一点也不悲观。 Example sentencesExamples Another day and another record broken by the Japanese economy, fuelling those pessimists who are increasingly gloomy about the world economy. One can only hope that such a gloomy view is unduly pessimistic. And some of our guests were in a pretty gloomy mood. She feels so gloomy, yet she did not know why? ‘Don't look so gloomy, Sean,’ he said. It was a pivotal moment in his presidency, making him seem pessimistic and gloomy in an un-American fashion. He couldn't understand why he was feeling so gloomy today. And then it came to him: that was why he was feeling gloomy. He could sense her gloomy mood, but knew better than to question her. Early reviews that helped shape this gloomy evaluation may have been overly pessimistic in their conclusions. I was in quite a gloomy state, after a potential marriage prospect fell through. Realising that the landscape was making her feel gloomier, she drew back the curtain and stood back. Those fearing a rise have tended to be dismissed by the government's supporters as pessimists with too gloomy a view on the economy. So many people are pessimistic right now that the chances seem so gloomy. She's the one who always bring everyone down in a gloomy mood. His films have become increasingly gloomy and pessimistic, even morbidly so. Synonyms despondent, downcast, downhearted, dejected, disconsolate, dispirited, crestfallen, cast down, depressed, disappointed, disheartened, discouraged, demoralized, desolate, heavy-hearted, in low spirits, low-spirited, sad, unhappy, glum, full of gloom, doleful, melancholy, miserable, woebegone, mournful, sorrowful, forlorn, long-faced, fed up, in the doldrums, subdued, wretched, lugubrious, eeyorish, morose, sepulchral, saturnine, dour, mirthless, woeful pessimistic, depressing, downbeat, looking on the black side, disheartening, disappointing, dispiriting, unpromising, unfavourable, bleak, bad, dark, black, sombre, melancholy, saddening, distressing, grim, cheerless, comfortless, hopeless 1.2 Causing distress or depression. 感到悲伤（或悲观）的 a gloomy atmosphere 令人沮丧的气氛。
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