Synonyms for gloomy

Adjective

1. gloomy, grim, darkening, hopeless (vs. hopeful)

usage: 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"; "the darkening mood"

2. dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry, cheerless (vs. cheerful), uncheerful

usage: 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

3. glooming, gloomy, gloomful, dark (vs. light)

usage: depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"

4. depressing, depressive, gloomy, saddening, sad (vs. glad)

usage: causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"

5. glum, gloomy, long-faced, dejected (vs. elated)

usage: reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"

6. blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, cheerless (vs. cheerful), uncheerful

usage: 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"