gloomy - Meaning in Sanskrit

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gloomy - Meaning in Sanskrit

gloomy Word Forms & Inflections

Definitions and Meaning of gloomy in English

gloomy adjective

1. depressingly dark

   Synonyms

   gloomful, glooming, sulky

   Examples

   • "the glooming interior of an old inn"
   • "the gloomy forest"
   • "`gloomful' is archaic"
2. causing dejection

   Synonyms

   blue, blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, grim, grim, sorry

   Examples

   • "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"
3. filled with melancholy and despondency

   Synonyms

   blue, blue, depressed, dispirited, down in the mouth, down, down, downcast, downhearted, grim, grim, low-spirited, low, low

   Examples

   • "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"
   • "a gloomy silence"
   • "depressed by the loss of his job"
   • "downcast after his defeat"
   • "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
   • "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"
   • "gloomy predictions"
   • "lonely and blue in a strange city"
   • "the darkening mood"
   • "took a grim view of the economy"

Synonyms of gloomy

• gloomful, glooming, sulky
• blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, grim, sorry
• blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, grim, low, low-spirited

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