1. gloomy
He looks gloomy.
He looked so gloomy after he lost his job that his brother paid for a holiday for him.
gloomy castle
It is such gloomy and dull days like today that make me really depressed
The vet is rather gloomy about my cat's chances of recovery.
It is not my intention to paint an entirely gloomy picture.
The cemetery is a gloomy place. Despite gloomy predictions, the stock market remains strong. It was another gray, gloomy day.
... actually don't buy this gloomy narrative, and I don't...
Kirby's quintessentially Japanese cuteness is almost incomprehensible to his American audience, who satirize him as a dark and gloomy character constantly, almost as a reflex.
I got gloomy and thought of giving up.
The sky is gloomy and gray - a typical rainy-season sky.
It’s such a gloomy day, it looks as if it’s going to rain any minute.
During her long illness, Mary felt gloomy about being confined to the house for so long.
unhappy and without hope: a gloomy person/expression The cemetery is a gloomy place.
It was as gloomy inside the mansion as the sunlight was dazzling outside.
2. macabre
The Goths wear macabre black costumes.
3. dismal
dismal conditions/surroundings/weather
The prospects for Japan's future look dismal.
The house looked very dismal.
What dismal weather!
The outlook for the defense program is dismal.
She was sad and dismal.
The dismal weather made the late afternoon seem like evening
When it turned out I didn't pass the exam I felt dismal.
What dismal weather. That was a dismal performance.
The trip was a dismal failure.
Hospitals are drab, dismal places not designed to heal.
The acting was dismal, wasn't it? What dismal weather!
A public place so dismal that the winos don't even want to go there.
In India, however, the situation is dismal.
That doctrine will no doubt lead to dismal consequences.
4. bleak
a bleak outlook/prospect
They paint a bleak picture of future.
... picker is still rather bleak.
The strenous and bleak working conditions Dickens endured found their way onto the pages of Oliver Twist
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
the playground is a bleak, empty space
Your future see bleak
1. The bleak moors are scary at night. 2. His expression remained bleak.
a bleak January afternoon
When I did, he would be sitting in his chair looking out into the bleak garden.
The company still hopes to find a buyer, but the future looks bleak.
Sadly, the prospects for young people in Lithuania today are rather bleak.
Allen was typically bleak at its press conference
The future is looking bleak for small clubs struggling with debts.
I guess my view on friendship is pretty bleak because I've never really had to rely on anyone for anything.
Angličtina slovo „мрачный„(bleak) se zobrazí v sadách:
IELTS Reading Vocabulary test 25. Grim
What happened? Why are you so grim?
The outlook is grim.
It's a grim world.
Marcia looked grim when I told her the story.
- Is this your first time in the north, Your Grace? I'm sure it's very grim after King's Landing.
From the doctor's grim expression, it was clear he had somber news for the patient.
In this line of work, if you make a grim face the customers won't come.
grim economic news When he lost his job, his future looked grim.
Should you prevail he offers in a grim addendum.
A grim girl on the third floor.
a grim-looking block of flats
The expression on his face was one of grim determination.
That is a bit grim, isn't it?
By the grim look on my boss' face, I knew it was going to be bad news
undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw
6. dull
To me he's no different from a million other dull middle aged men.
dull china
In the kitchen, you're more apt to cut yourself with a dull knife than with a sharp one.
Geometry, about which I know nothing, seems like a very dull subject.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
This club is fearfully dull. The dance floor is empty and the smoking patio is packed.
To equip a dull, respectable person with wings would be but to make a parody of an angel.
If, on the other hand, children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do, they are likely to become dull and unintelligent.
Like air traffic controllers, drone pilots have high‐stress yet often dull and repetitive jobs, mostly surveilling areas for intelligence and potential targets.
It rained all the time we were there so we had a rather dull weekend sitting indoors.
The room around him became crisp, the dull firepit flaring to near blinding brightness.
If you have a dull room, what can you do to brighten it up? If you have a dull room, you can brighten it up by painting it.
dull afternoon/people/colour
Have you ever met someone as dull as he was?
For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.