gloomyadjective
uk/ˈɡluː.mi/us/ˈɡluː.mi/gloomy adjective (WITHOUT HOPE)
unhappy and without hope:
a gloomy person/expression
The cemetery is a gloomy place.
not expecting or believing anything good in a situation:
a gloomy economic forecast
UK The vet is rather gloomy about my cat's chances of recovery.
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Not hopeful
- be in a funk idiom
- be on a hiding to nothing idiom
- chance
- defeatist
- dejected
- dim
- give up on sb/sth
- glum
- grim
- hiding
- hope
- lose
- negative
- negativity
- not give much for sb's chances idiom
- not have a hope in hell idiom
- pessimism
- pessimistic
- prophet
- win
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gloomy adjective (DARK)
dark in a way that is unpleasant and makes it difficult to see:
What gloomy weather we're having!
We waited in a gloomy waiting room.
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Darkness & becoming dark
- black
- black sth out
- blackness
- blackout
- dark
- darken
- deepen
- dingy
- draw
- draw in
- dull
- half-light
- inky
- moonless
- pitch-dark
- shade
- shady
- silhouette
- Stygian
- the gloaming
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gloomily
adverb uk/ˈɡluː.məl.i/us/ˈɡluː.məl.i/
gloominess
noun [ U ] uk/ˈɡluː.mi.nəs/us/ˈɡluː.mi.nəs/