Gloomy
['gluːmɪ] or ['ɡlumi]
Definition
(adj.) filled with melancholy and despondency ; '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'; 'lonely and blue in a strange city'; 'depressed by the loss of his job'; 'a dispirited and resigned expression on her face'; 'downcast after his defeat'; 'feeling discouraged and downhearted' .
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Obscure, dark, dim, dusky, dismal, cheerless, lowering, lurid.[2]. Sad, dejected, depressed, dispirited, disheartened, despondent, desponding, melancholy, downcast, crest-fallen, chap-fallen, down-hearted, glum, heavy of heart.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To be surrounded by many gloomy situations in your dream, warns you of rapidly approaching unpleasantness and loss. See Despair.
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Examples
- She stood looking at him in gloomy, heavy silence, for some time. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And he sat down with a most gloomy countenance by Fanny. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- A gloomy Fate had oppressed her there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In the chill air, in the dim light, in the gloomy morning silence of the house, we three sat down together, and tried to eat, tried to talk. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The day waned into a gloomy evening, overcast and sad, and I still contended with the same distress. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He looked at the two, less and less attentively, and his eyes in gloomy abstraction sought the ground and looked about him in the old way. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- With our black silk face-coverings, which turned us into two of the most truculent figures in London, we stole up to the silent, gloomy house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The house in Thavies Inn had bills in the windows announcing that it was to let, and it looked dirtier and gloomier and ghastlier than ever. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The gloomiest problem of this mysterious life was constantly before his eyes,--souls crushed and ruined, evil triumphant, and God silent. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The longest way must have its close,--the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There she sat plunged in sullen dudgeon, the gloomiest speculations on the depths of man's ingratitude absorbing her thoughts. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Carthoris and I were wrapped in the gloomiest of thoughts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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