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 →

2) Sad and without hope; in low spirits. tree →

3) Expecting bad things to happen: «a gloomy forecast». tree →

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 →
• The old house was gloomy and full of shadows. tree →
• Why do you look so gloomy? Cheer up! tree →
• The weather forecast for the weekend is gloomy. tree →
• Tom felt gloomy after losing the match. tree →
• The gloomiest room in the castle was the dungeon. tree →
• Grand, dark, and gloomy appeared the landscape around him. tree →

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.
• Gloomy octopuses in Australia were filmed throwing silt and shells with a jet of water, sometimes at each other.
• The Rat whispers that Badger is always gloomy when he is hungry.
• In Scots, "dreich" describes grey, damp, gloomy weather, and "pure" can mean very.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gloomy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.