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Meaning of 'gloomy'
Meaning of 'gloomy' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Gloomy 
[ superl.]
- Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or
darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. [ superl.]- Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.
Meaning of 'gloomy' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. gloomy [ s]
[ s]Meaning (1):
- causing dejection
- causing dejection
Example in sentence:
- a blue day;
- a dark gloomy day;
- a disconsolate winter landscape;
- a week of rainy depressing weather;
- grim rainy weather;
- the dark days of the war;
- the first dismal dispiriting days of November
Meaning (2):
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- filled with melancholy and despondency
Example in sentence:
- a dispirited and resigned expression on her face;
- a gloomy silence;
- depressed by the loss of his job;
- downcast after his defeat;
- feeling discouraged and downhearted;
- gloomy at the thought of what he had to face;
- gloomy predictions;
- lonely and blue in a strange city;
- the darkening mood;
- took a grim view of the economy
Meaning (3):
- depressingly dark
- depressingly dark
Example in sentence:
- the glooming interior of an old inn;
- the gloomy forest;
- `gloomful' is archaic
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