gloomy
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈɡluːmi/ / /ˈɡlumi/
adj
Etymology: From gloom + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian glumig (“dark, gloomy”).
- Not very illuminated; dim because of darkness, especially when appearing depressing or frightening.
“The cavern was gloomy.”
- Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected.
“a gloomy temper or countenance”
“The report was slightly gloomier than in June, when unemployment rates eased in more than half of all U.S. states for a third straight month and only five states reported jobless rate increases.”
noun
Etymology: From gloom + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian glumig (“dark, gloomy”).
- Someone or something that is gloomy or pessimistic.
“A word, finally, on how to go about this publicity business. If it should prove difficult to announce casts in the dailies, or at least in the weekly gloomies, it could surely be arranged that information be available, as soon as the casts are settled, at the opera house in question.”
“As well, Russians did not use the confusion of Y2K to launch a preemptive nuclear strike against the United States, as Internet "gloomies" had cautioned, now wagging their online tails in Internet chat rooms as "pollies" (Pollyannas) rubbed salt in their paranoid wounds.”