adjective (gloomier, gloomiest)
1 nearly dark, or badly lit in a way that makes you feel sad:
a gloomy room / atmosphere * It was a wet and gloomy day.
2 sad and without hope:
a gloomy expression * We sat in gloomy silence.
3 without much hope of success or happiness in the future:
a gloomy picture of the country's economic future * Suddenly, the future didn't look so gloomy after all.
gloomily adverb:
He stared gloomily at the phone. * Iris lay gloomily on her bed contemplating the future.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for gloomy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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