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gloomy, a.|ˈgluːmɪ|
[f. gloom n.1 (or perh. originally f. gloom v.1, as the n. is not recorded so early) + -y1.]
1. Full of gloom; dark, shaded, obscure.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. iv. i. 53 The ruthlesse, vast, and gloomy woods. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. iv. F 4 a, Roul'd vp in gloomie clouds as black as ayer. 1635J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virg. 1 The obscure sable night..surrendred up the field unto a gloomy morning. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 614 Narycian Woods of Pitch, whose gloomy Shade Seems for Retreat of heav'nly Muses made. 1784Cowper Task v. 140 The gloomy clouds find weapons, arrowy sleet. 1822Byron Werner i. i, Have a care, The staircase is a little gloomy. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xvi. 110 At a little distance below me, a gloomy fissure opened its jaws.
†b. Of colours: Dark, blackish. Obs.
1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 187 And the hew of the inhabitants countenances which in Arabia..are gloomie and swarffee.
2. Of persons and their attributes: Affected with gloom or depression of spirits; having dark or sullen looks.
1590Marlowe Edw. II, iv. vi. (1598) G 3 b, I suspect A gloomie fellow in a meade belowe; A gaue a long looke after vs. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. i. B 4 b, What gloomy soule in strange accustrements Walkes on the pauement. a1639Sir H. Wotton Life Dk. Buckingham (1642) 22 John Felton, by nature of a deep melancholy, silent, and glomy constitution. 1725Pope Odyss. x. 637 Grisly Pluto and his gloomy bride. 1735Somerville Chase iv. 202 The glouting Hound..Retiring to some close, obscure Retreat, Gloomy, disconsolate. 1751Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 174 His countenance being dark, bilious, and gloomy. 1833H. Martineau Brooke Farm xi. 127 But there stood Norton with a gloomy brow. 1861Wright Ess. Archæol. II. xxiii. 230 There are people of that gloomy character who never laugh. 1882Ouida Maremma I. 13 In a gloomy silence, broken only by gloomier mutterings of the crowd, the carabiniers drew rein before the prison.
3. Causing gloom or depression of spirits; dismal, disheartening.
1710Shaftesbury Adv. Author iii. ii. 156 The gloomy Prospect of Death. 1722Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 643 Things look very gloomy in public affairs abroad and in England. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. III. 183 The intelligence of the massacre of Pavia filled the mind of Stilicho with just and gloomy apprehensions. 1838Thirlwall Greece IV. xxxiv. 328 He had spent a part of the night in gloomy reflections. 1848W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc's Hist. Ten Y. I. 187 At some leagues distance from tumultuous Paris, St. Cloud presented a gloomy and afflicting spectacle. 1873M. E. Braddon L. Davoren I. iv. Prol. 47 The stranger took the gloomiest view of the position.
4. Comb., as gloomy-browed, gloomy-faced, gloomy-looking, gloomy-minded, gloomy-sluggish adjs.
1727Thomson Sir I. Newton 157 Ye hopeless gloomy-minded tribe. c1727Gulliver decypher'd 39 An over-grown gloomy-looking Fellow. 1803J. Kenny Society 165 The gloomy-faced fiends that the breast of slumbering innocence load. 1849J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante's Inferno p. xliv, The Sullen-sour, or Gloomy-sluggish..have their appropriate punishment. 1863J. Ingelow Poems 178 Demeter seeks her far and wide, And gloomy browed doth ceaseless roam. |