单词 | gloomy |
释义 | gloomy 1. a. < the gloomy night > : shadowy < the gloomy center of the forest > : dimly or murkily glimmering < the gloomy depths of the lake > especially < gloomy weather > < oppressed by the squalor of the gloomy tenements > b. < gloomy sullen savages > : forbidding, black-browed < tried to avoid the gloomy stare of his wife > c. < gloomy at the thought of what they had to face > 2. < a sordid gloomy story > : devoid of brightness, color, and joy : somber, dreary < a gloomy landscape > : disheartening, cheerless < a gloomy report on the spread of crime > : marked by little or no hopefulness : despondent, pessimistic < contrary predictions are being made, some gloomy, some optimistic — J.T.Farrell > Synonyms: see dark, sullen |
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