1. (

• glooming ,
• gloomy ,
• gloomful ,
• sulky

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

2. (

• gloomy ,
• grim ,
• blue ,
• depressed ,
• dispirited ,
• down ,
• downcast ,
• downhearted ,
• down_in_the_mouth ,
• low ,
• low-spirited

) filled with melancholy and despondency; "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"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" ;

3. (

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

) 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" ;