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gloomy

adj
/ˈɡluːmi/UK/ˈɡlumi/US

Etymology

From gloom + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian glumig (“dark, gloomy”).

  1. derived from *ǵʰley-✻ — “to gleam, shimmer, glow”
  2. inherited from *glōmaz✻ — “gleam, shimmer, sheen”
  3. inherited from *glōm✻
  4. inherited from glōm — “gloaming, twilight, darkness”
  5. inherited from *gloom✻
  6. formed as gloomy — “gloom + -y”

Definitions

  1. Not very illuminated

    Not very illuminated; dim because of darkness, especially when appearing depressing or frightening.

    • The cavern was gloomy.

  2. Suffering from gloom

    Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected.

    • a gloomy temper or countenance
    • The report was slightly gloomier than in June, when unemployment rates eased in more than half of all U.S. states for a third straight month and only five states reported jobless rate increases.
    • “The outlook is less gloomy than in our October forecast, and could represent a turning point, with growth bottoming out and inflation declining,” Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, the IMF’s director of research, wrote in a blog post.

  3. Someone or something that is gloomy or pessimistic.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at gloomy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01gloomy02melancholy03humours04humour05whim06steam07cloud

A definitional loop anchored at gloomy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at gloomy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA