gloomy
adjective (WITHOUT HOPE) /ˈɡluː.mi/Definition
› unhappy and without hope: a gloomy person/expression The cemetery is a gloomy place.Not hopeful › not expecting or believing anything good in a situation: The vet is rather gloomy about my cat's chances of recovery. a gloomy economic forecastNot hopeful gloomily /-mɪ.li/ adverb Not hopeful gloominess /-nəs/ noun [U] Sadness and regret
(Definition of gloomy adjective (WITHOUT HOPE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be in a funk idiom
- be on a hiding to nothing idiom
- bleak adjective
- defeatist adjective
- dejected adjective
- despair verb
- dim adjective (NOT POSITIVE)
- downcast adjective (UNHAPPY)
- downhearted adjective
- forlorn adjective (UNLIKELY TO SUCCEED)
- gloom noun (WITHOUT HOPE)
- glum adjective
- grim adjective (WITHOUT HOPE)
- hopeless adjective
- negativism noun
- not give much for sb's chances idiom
- not have a hope in hell idiom
- pessimism noun
- pessimistic adjective
- what are you going to do? idiom
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Not hopeful
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