Crossword clues for gloomiest
gloomiest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gloomy \Gloom"y\, a. [Compar. Gloomier; superl. Gloomiest.]
Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. ``Though hid in gloomiest shade.''
--Milton.-
Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.
Syn: Dark; dim; dusky; dismal; cloudy; moody; sullen; morose; melancholy; sad; downcast; depressed; dejected; disheartened.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: gloomy)
WordNet
See gloomy
adj. characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "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" [syn: grim, darkening]
depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams [syn: dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, sorry]
depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" [syn: glooming, gloomful]
causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news" [syn: depressing, depressive, saddening]
reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces" [syn: glum, long-faced]
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" [syn: blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, grim]
Usage examples of "gloomiest".
There are some who say that they still paint their faces white, and can be seen singing sad songs in some of the gloomiest music halls in the city.
And I have not tracked down the refrigerator in which the Baudelaires found the Verbal Fridge Dialogue, despite stories that it is also in one of the Mortmain Mountain caves, or performing in some of the gloomiest music halls in the city.
Debienne and Poligny, who, seeing us pass straight from the gloomiest state of mind to one of the most insolent merriment, acted as though they thought that we had gone mad.