gloominess

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gloom·y

(glo͞o′mē)

adj. gloom·i·er, gloom·i·est

1. Partially or totally dark, especially dismal and dreary: a damp, gloomy day.

2. Showing or filled with gloom: gloomy faces.

a. Causing or producing gloom; depressing: gloomy news.

b. Marked by hopelessness; very pessimistic: gloomy predictions.

gloom′i·ly adv.

gloom′i·ness n.

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Noun	1.	gloominess - an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office" glumness, gloom ambiance, ambience, atmosphere - a particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement" cloud - a cause of worry or gloom or trouble; "the only cloud on the horizon was the possibility of dissent by the French" bareness, bleakness, desolation, nakedness - a bleak and desolate atmosphere; "the nakedness of the landscape"
	2.	gloominess - a feeling of melancholy apprehension gloom, somberness, sombreness apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread - fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" melancholy - a feeling of thoughtful sadness
	3.	gloominess - the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness lugubriousness, sadness uncheerfulness - not conducive to cheer or good spirits

Translations

غَم، كآبَه، عَتْمَه

skleslosttmavost

mørke

Schwermut

assombrissement

borongósság

dimma; drungi

dysterhet

kasvet üzüntü

忧闷

gloominess

(= darkness, of place, sky) → Düsterkeit f; (of day, weather, light) → Trübheit f

(= despondency: of person) → Niedergeschlagenheit f, → Bedrücktheit f; (= melancholy) → Trübsinn m; (= pessimism) → Pessimismus m; (of thoughts, expression) → Düsterkeit f; (of forecast, future, news) → bedrückende Art; (of outlook) → Trübheit f; (of assessment, view) → pessimistische Art

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gloom

(gluːm) noun

1. a state of not quite complete darkness. I could not tell the colour of the car in the gloom.

2. sadness. The king's death cast a gloom over the whole country.

ˈgloomy adjective

1. sad or depressed. Don't look so gloomy.

2. depressing. gloomy news.

3. dim; dark. gloomy rooms.

ˈgloominess noun

References in classic literature ?

Hence perhaps she had contracted a little gloominess of temper, for she was rather a good servant than a good wife; nor had she always the gratitude to return the extraordinary degree of roaring mirth, with which the squire received her, even with a good-humoured smile.

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And by the same token, how was I to guess that her brother Pat's offishness with me was anything else than temperamental gloominess of spirit?

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In spite of the gloominess of nature around him, he felt peculiarly eager.

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Ferguson, still cold and impassible, talked of this, that, and the other; but he strove in vain to overcome this infectious gloominess. He utterly failed.

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His manners, though serious, were mild; and his reserve appeared rather the result of some oppression of spirits than of any natural gloominess of temper.

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The fading light increased the gloominess of the bleak and savage wilderness that stretched so far on every side of him, and there was even a fearful character in the stillness of those little huts, that he knew were so abundantly peopled.

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In the Strait of Magellan looking due southward from Port Famine, the distant channels between the mountains appeared from their gloominess to lead beyond the confines of this world.

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Then, without noticing the gloominess of the mate's countenance he went in again.

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