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Meanings of gloomful in English

Depressingly dark.

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        Examples for "gloomy"
        1
        The planet's inhabitants will remain gloomy, however, even despite their new surroundings.
        Wired
        2
        Chris's own father had reached the gloomy state of mind long ago.
        Cities in Flight
        3
        In general, he had the most gloomy ideas concerning almost all events.
        Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 1 / Being se...
        4
        Rival Spanish hotel chain Melia MEL.MC reported similarly gloomy results last week.
        Reuters
        5
        But it may point to a gloomy long-term outlook for energy prices.
        Reuters
        1
        We hadn't gone five yards when Strike spoke, sounding winded and sulky.
        Speaking in Bones
        2
        I want to be icy, but I fear I appear only sulky.
        The White Queen
        3
        For a few minutes the sulky one performed on the flying rings.
        Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis; Or, Leaders of the Second...
        4
        Gone was the self-absorbed, sulky look that he had mostly worn before.
        The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
        5
        She looked sulky but said, You're not the only detective in Chicago.
        Body work
        1
        Marian, coming in a few minutes later, found her glooming there still.
        Chicken Little Jane
        2
        Under a grey sky, glooming to purple, the gelid water writhed nakedly.
        The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
        3
        There is sadness glooming out of him, but no unkindness nor asperity.
        Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.
        4
        Through the frozen glooming Nyssa saw Moll's legs with her single good eye.
        Dagmar's daughter
        5
        Tom sat glooming over it for a time, shrouding himself in tobacco smoke.
        The Quickening
        Usage of gloomful in English
        1
        If it were anything you'd like to hear, but why should you know what is all sad and gloomful?
        We Two: A Novel
        Gloomful through the time