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(satellite adjective) characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy" |
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Synonyms: grim |
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(satellite adjective) depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" |
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Synonyms: gloomful, glooming |
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(satellite adjective) reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces" |
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Synonyms: glum, long-faced |
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(satellite adjective) causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news" |
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Synonyms: depressing, depressive, saddening |
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(satellite adjective) depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams |
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Synonyms: dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, sorry |
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(satellite adjective) causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" |
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Synonyms: blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, grim |
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