gloomy
depressingly dark
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,248 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,781 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- depressingly dark also: glooming, gloomful, sulky the gloomy forestthe glooming interior of an old inn
- filled with melancholy and despondency also: grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast gloomy at the thought of what he had to facegloomy predictions
- causing dejection also: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, grim a blue daythe dark days of the war
gloomy in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Steadily during his lifetime it had grown more gloomy, less habitable.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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Now we found it to be a gloomy, vaultlike place in one of the deepest corridors.
Brigands of the Moon · Ray Cummings · Chapter 1
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He turned to go, but she stood still, looking down into the gloomy, darkening ravine below her.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1
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Philosopher though one may be, it is not without some pangs that one passes from a sumptuous hotel to a gloomy garret.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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So humiliated were our enemies by the guffaws of the mob, that in gloomy ill-humor they beat a retreat to plot revenge.
The Satyricon — Volume 01: Introduction · 20-66 Petronius Arbiter · Chapter 1