gloomy

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  • Adjective:
    characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom
    depressing in character or appearance
    depressingly dark
    causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom
    reflecting gloom
    causing dejection

Word Origin

gloomy (adj.)
1580s, probably from gloom (n.) even though that word is not attested as early as this one. Shakespeare used it of woods, Marlowe of persons. Gloomy Gus has been used in a general sense of "sullen person" since 1902, the name of a pessimistic and defeatist newspaper comics character introduced about that time by U.S. illustrator Frederick Burr Opper. Related: Gloomily; gloominess.

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Example

1. The 2009 sundance film festival was utterly gloomy .
2. Labor market data provided a positive counterpoint to otherwise gloomy growth numbers .
3. But there is an exception to the gloomy european rule .
4. This jail only has straight , gloomy rows .
5. But gloomy data should retain the power to unnerve .

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