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# gloomy

«gloomy» in Mova's school dictionary: **Dark or dim, with very little light** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (gloomy, gloomier, gloomiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Dark or dim, with very little light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloomy/#m1)

2) Sad and without hope; in low spirits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloomy/#m2)

3) Expecting bad things to happen: «a gloomy forecast». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloomy/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it sets a dark, sad mood: «a gloomy castle», «a gloomy day». In weather talk it means grey and cloudy. It also describes a person's mood. Phrases: gloomy weather, a gloomy face, feel gloomy, gloomy news.

### examples

- It was a gloomy, rainy afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloomy/#x1)
- The old house was gloomy and full of shadows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloomy/#x2)
- Why do you look so gloomy? Cheer up! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloomy/#x3)
- The weather forecast for the weekend is gloomy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloomy/#x4)
- Tom felt gloomy after losing the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloomy/#x5)
- The gloomiest room in the castle was the dungeon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloomy/#x6)
- Grand, dark, and gloomy appeared the landscape around him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloomy/#x7)

### note

Noun: gloom; adverb: gloomily. Comparative: gloomier, gloomiest (y to i). Opposite: bright, cheerful, sunny.

### In the corpora

- [Adults sometimes switch off heavy news to take a break from it, because too much bad news makes anyone gloomy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/19/)
- [Gloomy octopuses in Australia were filmed throwing silt and shells with a jet of water, sometimes at each other.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/234-animal-minds-the-octopus-escape-artist-and-puzzle-solver/16/)
- [The Rat whispers that Badger is always gloomy when he is hungry.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/8/)
- [In Scots, "dreich" describes grey, damp, gloomy weather, and "pure" can mean very.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gloomy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloomy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.