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gloominess

[ UK /ɡlˈuːmɪnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. an atmosphere of depression and melancholy
    gloom pervaded the office
  2. the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
  3. a feeling of melancholy apprehension

How To Use gloominess In A Sentence

  • He would laugh her out of her gloominess.
  • The honest man was grown splenetic: disregarded by every body, he was become disregardful of himself: he hoped for a cure of his gloominess, from her cheerful vein; and seemed to think himself under obligation to one who had taken notice of him, when nobody else would. Sir Charles Grandison
  • The D minor Quartet is by far the most tragic of the six, with a piercing sadness that sometimes borders on gloominess.
  • For the last 5 or 6 days I've been surpassing even myself in gloominess.
  • The beginning of the winter brought a new season of parties and gatherings with which the aristocrats sought to dispel the gloominess of this permanently twilit world.
  • All the dark gloominess needs a little bit of a break up in my opinion. Green Lantern Cast! Ryan Reynolds is Hal Jordan! « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
  • He delivers emotions other than dull gloominess and unfocused anger, and he does it in style.
  • It was a dark, rambling, badly-lit Victorian pile, but at the time its ponderous gloominess appealed to my over-developed taste for the Gothic.
  • By this means, when the heavens are filled with clouds, when the earth swims in rain, and all nature wears a lowering countenance, I withdraw myself from these uncomfortable scenes, into the visionary worlds of art; where I meet with shining landscapes, gilded triumphs, beautiful faces, and all those other objects that fill the mind with gay ideas, and disperse that gloominess which is apt to hang upon it in those dark disconsolate seasons. Essays and Tales
  • U.S. stocks jumped Wednesday as investors bounced back from the previous day's gloominess, bidding up stocks in a broad-based rally that lifted all sectors. U.S. Stocks Rally
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