| 单词 | gloomy |
| 释义 | gloomy (once / 213 pages) adj Gloomy means "dark and dreary." A cloudy day, a sad song about lost love, your downbeat mood after your team loses a big game — all of these can be called gloomy. Have you ever been called a Gloomy Gus? If so, you must have been acting depressed or sulky. But you aren't the first to be called that — after all, Gloomy Gus was a comic book character who first appeared in 1904. By the 1940s, this nickname caught on, describing — and possibly adding to the misery — of those who are less happy-seeming than the people around them. WORD FAMILYgloomy: gloomier, gloomiest, gloomily, gloominess+/gloom: gloomful, glooms, gloomy/gloominess: gloominesses USAGE EXAMPLESBack in China, the situation is even gloomier. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Throughout his campaign for president, Donald Trump painted a gloomy picture of the American economy, scoffing at employment data that he said masked the truth. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) But there is a retort to the gloomy diagnosis that inequality will always be with us: it was not always so. The New Yorker(Dec 29, 2016) 1adj depressingly dark the gloomy forest Syn gloomful, glooming, sulky dark devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black 2adj filled with melancholy and despondency gloomy at the thought of what he had to face gloomy predictions a gloomy silence Syn blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, grim, low, low-spirited dejected affected or marked by low spirits 3adj causing dejection Syn blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, grim, sorry cheerless, depressing, uncheerful causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy |
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