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Meanings of glooming in English
Synonyms
Examples for "gloomy"
Examples for "gloomy"
1
The planet's inhabitants will remain gloomy, however, even despite their new surroundings.
2
Chris's own father had reached the gloomy state of mind long ago.
3
In general, he had the most gloomy ideas concerning almost all events.
4
Rival Spanish hotel chain Melia MEL.MC reported similarly gloomy results last week.
5
But it may point to a gloomy long-term outlook for energy prices.
1
We hadn't gone five yards when Strike spoke, sounding winded and sulky.
2
I want to be icy, but I fear I appear only sulky.
3
For a few minutes the sulky one performed on the flying rings.
4
Gone was the self-absorbed, sulky look that he had mostly worn before.
5
She looked sulky but said, You're not the only detective in Chicago.
1
If it were anything you'd like to hear, but why should you know what is all sad and gloomful?
Usage of glooming in English
1
Marian, coming in a few minutes later, found her glooming there still.
2
Under a grey sky, glooming to purple, the gelid water writhed nakedly.
3
There is sadness glooming out of him, but no unkindness nor asperity.
4
Through the frozen glooming Nyssa saw Moll's legs with her single good eye.
5
Tom sat glooming over it for a time, shrouding himself in tobacco smoke.
6
Pine Mountain watches whitely overhead, shepherd fires glow strongly on the glooming hills.
7
I handed it across to him, where he sat newly glooming at me.
8
And for the matter of that, whatever are you glooming over?
9
England's unprofitable success: Human faces glooming discordantly on one another.
10
Bridge and saw the ministers glooming down from the Mound in a dense Assembly fog.
11
The sun rose in her glooming face when she turned and saw him beside her.
12
There stands Angus Dhu, glowering and glooming at us.
13
But the lord of Bellister sat on, "glooming" morbidly to himself.
14
All these people who go around glooming because there is a war across the Atlantic!
15
The D flat Trio is a logical relief after the booming and glooming of the opening.
16
Ford, glooming out upon the lighted stretch ahead, was once more finding the crucial question answerless.
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Frequent collocations
Glooming through the time
Glooming across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common