Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: gloomy
IPA transcription: [ɡl'umi]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky
    Meaning: depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"
Usage examples
  • Sunk into a gloomy reverie
  • My thots were gloomy beyond expression.
  • "My dear, do not give way to such gloomy thoughts.
  • The backers of "Mascot", the rival favourite, looked gloomy.
  • She danced, and was forced to dance straight out into the gloomy wood.
  • What on earth would he do with himself all his life in that gloomy place!
  • He thought he looked gloomy and worried, and fancied he had come to find him.
  • He wasted hour after hour, and day after day, in gloomy thoughts about the past.
  • His father had been very gloomy--so gloomy that he had actually been cross to his wife.
  • The place was lit with a gloomy twilight that gave an impression of indescribable desolation.