The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DOUR , but the solution may also be BLEAK which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in LA Times).
Gloomy crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DOUR | 31 % | 4 |
| MOROSE | 11 % | 6 |
| DISMAL | 8 % | 6 |
| DARK | 6 % | 4 |
| SOMBER | 6 % | 6 |
| SAD | 6 % | 3 |
| DREAR | 5 % | 5 |
| SATURNINE | 5 % | 9 |
| GRAY | 3 % | 4 |
| GRIM | 2 % | 4 |
| STYGIAN | 2 % | 7 |
| SULLEN | 1 % | 6 |
| CHEERLESS | 1 % | 9 |
| BLUE | 1 % | 4 |
| DREARY | 1 % | 6 |
| BLEAK | 1 % | 5 |
| GUS | 1 % | 3 |
| DUN | 1 % | 3 |
| OVERCAST | 0 % | 8 |
| LOWERING | 0 % | 8 |
| RAYLESS | 0 % | 7 |
| DOWNBEAT | 0 % | 8 |
| ONADOWNER | 0 % | 9 |
| DRAB | 0 % | 4 |
| DOLESOME | 0 % | 8 |
| LOW | 0 % | 3 |
| SOMBRE | 0 % | 6 |
| SOLEMN | 0 % | 6 |
| TENEBROUS | 0 % | 9 |
| SUNLESS | 0 % | 7 |
| SEPULCHRAL | 0 % | 10 |
| ATRABILIOUS | 0 % | 11 |
Why may BLEAK be the right solution?
The word "bleak" means lacking in brightness or cheerfulness, which perfectly fits the clue "gloomy."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Gloomy
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- grim
- dreary
- glum
- dismal
- cheerless
- depressing
- dark
- drab
- hopeless
- disconsolate
- sad
- dispiriting
Crossword Answer definitions
DOUR adjective- Stern, harsh and forbidding.
- Unyielding and obstinate.
- Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result DOUR
- Forbidding
- Saturnine
- Silently ill-humored
- Not elated
- Sullen
- Gloomy or forbidding
- Gloomy
- Gloomy or stern
- Far from cheerful
- No fun to be around
More clues leading to the result MOROSE
More clues leading to the result DISMAL
More clues leading to the result DARK
- Gloomy
- "____ Shadows"
- Pitch black
- Like film noir
- Unlit
- Chiaroscuro factor
- After sundown
- In shadow
- Foreboding
- Shadowy
More clues leading to the result SOMBER
- Gloomily dark
- Dead serious
- Hardly upbeat
- Grave
- Melancholy
- Dark and dull
- Quite serious
- Gloomy
- Mournful
- Extremely serious
More clues leading to the result SAD
More clues leading to the result DREAR
- Dark and gloomy
- Dismal
- Gloomy, in poetry
- Gloomy, in Brit Lit
- Lacking cheer, poetically
- Gloominess
- Dismal, to Donne
- Bleak
- Gloomy, poetically
- Bleak, to Blake
More clues leading to the result SATURNINE
- Mirthless
- Sluggish in temperament
- Gloomy
- Adjective for Eeyore
- Gloomy.
- Morose.
- Gloomy or sullen
- Taciturn; gloomy
- *Gloomy
- Bitter or scornful
More clues leading to the result GRAY
- _____ matter (brains)
- Black and white mix
- Drabble character Jane
- Gloomy
- Ashen
- Davis of note
- Like overcast skies
- Sweats shade
- ___ notes (wine characteristic)
- CSA color
More clues leading to the result GRIM
- Like the 'Reaper'
- Sinister
- Not at all rosy
- Long-faced
- Like the `Reaper'
- Really dark
- Not looking so good
- Morbid
- Not looking rosy
- Bleak in outlook
More clues leading to the result STYGIAN
- Hellish, in the Greek sense
- Dark and gloomy
- Like Charon's world
- Dark.
- Gloomy as the infernal river.
- Infernal.
- Gloomy
- Hellish
- Dark and forbidding
More clues leading to the result SULLEN
More clues leading to the result CHEERLESS
More clues leading to the result BLUE
- "Am I __"
- A primary color
- Dejected
- Like Carl Perkins's suede shoes
- Sad
- Babe's color
- Depressed
- Down in the dumps
- Down
- Like Smurfs
More clues leading to the result DREARY
- Like a rainy day
- Cheerless
- Humdrum
- Lacking in liveliness
- Tedious
- Depressive
- Like a dismal day
- Gloomy
- Dismal
- Not all that bright
More clues leading to the result BLEAK
- Hopeless
- __ House (Dickens)
- Far from comforting
- Discouraging
- ___ House
- Desolate
- Dickens's "___ House"
- Dreary
- Like the tundra
- Cheerless
More clues leading to the result GUS
- "Ain't We Got Fun" lyricist Kahn
- Indiana's lost astronaut, familiarly
- Astronaut Grissom
- Character in "Breaking Bad" or "Psych" (neither was particularly gloomy, though)
- Kingpin Fring on "Breaking Bad"
- "Breaking Bad" drug kingpin Fring
- Auburn coach Malzahn
- Jaguars coach Bradley
- Los Pollos Hermanos businessman Fring on TV's "Breaking Bad"
- NASA's Grissom
More clues leading to the result DUN
- Demand payment
- Hound
- Hound for money
- Pester for payment
- Demand payment from
- Press for payment
- Brownish-gray
- Grayish brown
- Pester about payment
- Grayish-brown
More clues leading to the result OVERCAST
- Ready to rain, perhaps
- Cloudy
- Clouded.
- Stitch to prevent raveling.
- Descriptive of skies.
- Cloudy.
- Weather condition.
- Gloomy
- Covered with clouds
- Not clear
More clues leading to the result LOWERING
More clues leading to the result RAYLESS
- Lacking light
- Without beams.
- Kind of gun no space cadet would use.
- Gloomy.
- Lacking sunlight
- Dark and gloomy, as a cave
More clues leading to the result DOWNBEAT
- Gloomy
- Blue
- Jazz magazine
- Bearish time
- Somewhat pessimistic
- Conductor's cue, maybe
- Jazz/blues monthly
- Apt part of a sad song?
- Party-pooping
More clues leading to the result ONADOWNER
More clues leading to the result DRAB
- Dreary
- Lacking pizazz
- Like khaki
- Lackluster
- Far from colorful
- Blah
- Completely blah
- Dull-looking
- Humdrum
- Not so colorful
More clues leading to the result DOLESOME
More clues leading to the result LOW
- Like some blows
- Girl Scout founder
- Immoral
- First gear
- Contemptible
- In need of supplies
- Like a bass
- Underhanded
- With 39-Across, like some cigarettes
- At sea level
More clues leading to the result SOMBRE
- Dismal.
- Without light or brightness.
- Melancholy.
- Grave.
- Gloomy.
- Gloomy in Glouster
- Funereal, in Folkestone
- Gloomy, in Gloucester
More clues leading to the result SOLEMN
- Serious
- Unsmiling
- Eggshibiting gravity
- Grave
- Invoking the force of religion
- Like funeral marches
- Not marked by levity
- Extremely earnest
- Like many oaths
- Very serious
More clues leading to the result TENEBROUS
More clues leading to the result SUNLESS
- Overcast
- Gloomy
- Like winter in Antarctica
- Quality of a northern exposure.
- Cloudy.
- Dark.
- Bleak.
- Dark
- Like night
- Completely overcast