gloomily

English

Etymology

From gloomy +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡluːmɪli/

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• Rhymes: -uːmɪli

Adverb

gloomily (comparative more gloomily, superlative most gloomily)

1. In a gloomy manner.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 280:

     [T]he sedate monk's hood lifted its head still higher and looked gloomily and wickedly down on it, while it nodded and kept time to the cuckoo's song, as if it were counting how many days it had to live.

   • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 125:

     He was gloomily informative on points of law, of which the storehouse of his mind appeared to be well supplied.

   • 1964 September, G. Freeman Allen, “Interim report on the East Coast Route express service”, in Modern Railways, page 160:

     Frowning heads are still gloomily shaken when the subject is raised on the NER, [...].

Translations

in a gloomy manner

• Finnish: hämyisesti, hämärästi (fi), synkästi (fi), synkeästi
• Polish: mrocznie