Gloomy - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 30/01/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Gloomy.

9 letter answer(s) to gloomy

CHEERLESS
  1. causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"
SATURNINE
  1. bitter or scornful; "the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde
  2. showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
TENEBROUS
  1. dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave"

4 letter answer(s) to gloomy

DARK
  1. (used of color) having a dark hue; "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue"
  2. absence of light or illumination
  3. absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness"
  4. an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness"
  5. an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness"
  6. brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes); "dark eyes"
  7. 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"
  8. devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat"
  9. having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "dark-skinned
DOUR
  1. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie
  2. showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
  3. stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
  4. Sullen
GRAY
  1. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
  2. American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
  3. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey; "the Confederate army was a vast grey"
  4. clothing that is a grey color; "he was dressed in grey"
  5. English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
  6. English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
  7. horse of a light gray or whitish color
  8. intermediate in character or position; "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"
  9. make grey; "The painter decided to grey the sky"
  10. of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black; "the little grey cells"; "gray flannel suit"; "a man with greyish hair"
  11. showing characteristi
GRIM
  1. 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"
  2. 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. harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
  4. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie

6 letter answer(s) to gloomy

DISMAL
  1. 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"
MOROSE
  1. showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
SOMBRE
  1. dark
  2. grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"
  3. lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"

10 letter answer(s) to gloomy

DOOM-LADEN

8 letter answer(s) to gloomy

DOWNBEAT
  1. 1 Pessimistic or gloomy 2 Relaxed and understated
  2. the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward)
MOURNFUL
  1. expressing sorrow
  2. filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news"
  3. Sad

3 letter answer(s) to gloomy

DUN
  1. a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; "she wore dun"
  2. cure by salting; "dun codfish"
  3. horse of a dull brownish grey color
  4. make a dun color
  5. of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; "the dun and dreary prairie"
  6. persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"
  7. treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
MOR
  1. a layer of humus
SAD
  1. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
  2. experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti
  3. More miserable
  4. of things that make you feel sad; "sad news"; "she doesn't like sad movies"; "it was a very sad story"; "When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me"- Christina Rossetti
  5. Unhappy

5 letter answer(s) to gloomy

MURKY
  1. (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"
  2. dark or gloomy; "a murky dungeon"; "murky rooms lit by smoke-blackened lamps"

7 letter answer(s) to gloomy

STYGIAN
  1. dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades; "in the depths of an Acheronian forest"; "upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue"-Wordsworth
  2. hellish; "Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave forlorn"- Milton

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Gloomy'

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"___ but true"
A daughter overlooked by son is out of sorts
A few embracing British melancholy
A reversal in function makes us gloomy
After a short time, moved up and down
After dusk
Alternative to white, as
Bad, as a prognosis
Bad-tempered beast devouring ram's head
Bad-tempered sailor on board again
Bad-tempered? More so, unfortunately
Battleship shade
Black and white?
Bleak
Bleak philosophy embraced by youth in recession
Bleak where hail diminished?
Blue
Blue almost all absent from greens
Blue fish not caught
Blue movies BAFTA recognised at last!
Brownish-grey
Bug for payment
Bummed
Bummed out
Cheerless
Chiefly sad or solemn in nature perhaps?
Chocolate choice
Civil War side, with "the
Cold and unappetising article in French toast sandwiches
Collector of folk tales, mostly unpleasant
Commercial suffix with
Complaint letters periodically dispatched from island
Conductor's cue, maybe
Confederate uniform color
Creep dropping behind student brainbox?
Cross covering medic's grave
Dark and brooding
Dark and dismal
Dark sort of envelope hosts deliver
Dark, dull
Daughter beside boat in shadow
Dejected
Departs with ship full of animals that’s not light
Deplorable
Deplorably poor
Depressed
Depressing
Depressing directive to cut back on applause
Desolate nature's in evolution
Detective, mostly insignificant and feeble
Died on boat? That's not fair
Dismal
Dispirited
Doctor got up and down
Dour
Dour old male knocked over wine
Down
Down current unseen in Egyptian port
Down in the dumps
Down south and missing north
Down south in these times
Downcast
Downhearted
Dreadful
Dreary
Dreary game interrupted by dancing reel
Dreary, gloomy
Duke is fellow endlessly sad
Dull agent demanding payment
Dull brown
Dull color
Dull shade
Dull-colored
Edna broke every so often: not fair!
Elegiac
Expressing sorrow as second vessel is almost at capacity
Face accommodating unusual sexual practices? Not encouraging
Far from perky
Feathers are better than a baton movement
Feeling sorrow
Flood’s ending with Noah’s vessel in gloom
Forbidding
Forbidding, stern
Formal wear for men in clubs?
Frowning
Ghastly
Ghastly ingrained dirt finally wiped
Ghastly smut, mostly
Gloomy - black - hidden
Gloomy - depressing
Gloomy academic, exhausted, drinking whiskey
Gloomy day on rescue vessel
Gloomy detective eating nothing
Gloomy doctor became prominent
Gloomy function bringing in a performer
Gloomy function opened by a performer
Gloomy investigator’s hit, done over
Gloomy king beset by wild animal
Gloomy little sergeant major with face put out
Gloomy maids wandering by lake
Gloomy nature incompatible with sin
Gloomy nature's in fashion
Gloomy passion out of Arabia
Gloomy rendition of sober tune
Gloomy Republican trapped by American elk
Gloomy sergeant major has face put out
Gloomy signal from the conductor?
Gloomy start to musical performance?
Gloomy, beset by raging sea, surrender
Gloomy, dark
Gloomy, depressing
Gloomy, in Gloucester
Gloomy, ordinary seaman on board again
Glum
Grayish brown
Grayish shade
Grey hat tipped or removed
Grim
Grim person achieving things, we hear
GRUMPY
Hard to understand when BBC drama axes the first three characters
Hardly cheery
Hardly encouraging
Hardly rosy
Hardly upbeat
Harsh
Heads of state are disproportionately unhappy
Heavy-hearted
Hellish
Horse color
Horse's hue
Hound for bucks?
Ill-humored
Ill-tempered doctor rebelled
In a blue funk
In a funk
In a sour mood
In America, dull sauce lacks bit of va-va-voom
In low spirits
In the doldrums
In the dumps
Inferior, as excuses go
Insufficient, as an excus
It's south of Sp.
Jerry Lewis movie "The __
Kind of story
King George alas is dull in America
King with silver engaged in risks in unenlightened times
Knight getting silver, engaged in challenges in times long ago
Land across from Gibralta
Lee side?
Lee's uniform color
Like a foreboding sky
Like Eeyore, in "Winnie-t
Like many a winter sky
Like some commentary
Like some turkey meat
Long-faced
Looking like rain
Low
Lugubrious
Lugubrious doctor with contents of vase?
Make demands of
Mean and moody?
Melancholy
Methodism allows drinking? Very disappointing
Mideast's House of ___
Miserable chap tucking into toast
Miserable face sergeant major wears
Miserable face sergeant-major wears
Miserable function a performer gate-crashes
Miserable sergeant-major breaking clock face?
Missing light vessel to east of delta
Moody
Moody Maureen meets another woman
Moping
Morose
Most of broad hat is dark
Mournful
Needing buoying
Neighbor of Alg.
Neutral color
Night and day shelter
Noirish
Not up
Not white, as meat
Obscure
Odd about the Bluegrass State being dark and gloomy
Of a sombre colour
Overcast
Periodically stand down
Pessimist - is my jam mild?
Pessimistic
Pester for payment
Plaintive
Port stores uranium in ramshackle holding area
Pre-dye hair shade, often
Press for payment
Radio music format, in br
Recalled some lack radiance – in this?
Regrettable
Relaxed first gesture from conductor
Relaxed having lowered pulse
Reportedly completed in brownish-grey colour
Romeo's disposition is melancholic
Sad face, taking in storm on vacation
Said when one leaves in low spirits
Saturnine
Second sort of wine is sour
Secretive celebrity's large body not evident to viewers
See 14 Across
Severe, stern, gloomy
Singing the blues
Sinister affair that's hypothetical
Sinister politician leaves Ross in Cornwall
Sinister vessel pursuing daughter
Small bill is miserable
Somber
Somewhat pessimistic
Sorrowful
Sorry
Sour
South side?
Staying out - it's hellishly dark
Stern or gloomy
Sulky
Sullen
Sullen, bad-tempered
Surly animal crossing river
Swarthy
Tangier location: Abbr.
Terrible leader in government over the border
Thanksgiving meat request
The German returns depressed
The German’s upset and unhappy
Tie up, in a way
Tone down the vocal support, being despondent
Unfortunate
Unhappy
Unhappy almost everything’s gone from healthy food option?
Unhappy workers finally given notice
Unilluminated vessel on Dee
Unlit
Unopened perfume's grim
Unpleasant
Vase held by sculpted saint seen on top of Elgar's grave
Very cloudy days leading to ship being created by Noah
Very gloomy
Very severe, stern
Visit old city that's somewhat grim
W. Sahara neighbor
Wearing black, perhaps
Where film will end up, one way or another
With little light
With little or no light
With new leader, man becomes sad
Woebegone
Woeful
Wretched
_empty_

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