Definition of Gloomy

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Gloomy

Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.

Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.

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Gloomy Quotations

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
Thomas Jefferson

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
Francis of Assisi

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Benjamin Disraeli

One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
Daniel Boone

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
Friedrich Schiller

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
Jean Racine

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.
Robert Wyatt

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
Gavin Rossdale

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.
Karl Philipp Moritz

Gloomy Translations

gloomy in Dutch is naargeestig, somber, troosteloos
gloomy in Italian is accigliato
gloomy in Latin is ater atra atrum, acerbus
gloomy in Norwegian is dyster
gloomy in Spanish is tenebroso
gloomy in Swedish is dunkel, trist, kuslig

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