HOW TO PRONOUNCE
gloomy
/ˈɡlumi/
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What does gloomy mean?
adjective
- Not very illuminated; dim because of darkness, especially when appearing depressing or frightening.
- Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected.
noun
- (informal) Someone or something that is gloomy or pessimistic.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɡlumi/
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As I wandered about the plaza lost in my gloomy forebodings Tars Tarkas approached me on his way from the audience chamber.
To the right, on the contrary, lay a black hollow resembling a vast well, unfathomable and gloomy, drilled into the lunar soil.
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The prison of La Force was a gloomy prison, dark and filthy, and with a horrible smell of foul sleep in it.
A magic lamp now seemed to be suspended in Maria’s prison, and fairy landscapes flitted round the gloomy walls, late so blank.
Fatality has points of juncture where innocence itself is stamped with crime by the gloomy law of the reflections which give color.