- Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or
darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. - Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy;
dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.
Meaning of 'Gloomy' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . gloomy
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Meaning (1): - causing dejection
Example in sentence:
a blue day;
a dark gloomy day;
a disconsolate winter landscape;
a week of rainy depressing weather;
grim rainy weather;
the dark days of the war;
the first dismal dispiriting days of November
Meaning (2): - filled with melancholy and despondency