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gloomful

gloomful adjective: gloomy.

Adjective

gloomful (comparative more gloomful, superlative most gloomful)

  1. (archaic, poetic) gloomy
    • Long, I tell you, long and often, have I pondered on that history, and sought to trace with what ghastly secret has been pregnant the destiny, gloomful as Erebus and the murk of black-peplosed Nux, which for centuries has hung its pall over the men of this ill-fated house.1895, M.P. Shiel, Prince Zaleski
    • Dyke, having expressed a preference for the tomb as a place of residence, went on his gloomful way shedding green paint on one side and red on the other.1922, Samuel Hopkins Adams, From a Bench in Our Square

Forms of gloomful

comparativemore gloomful
superlativemost gloomful

Origin of gloomful

From gloom + -ful.

Words formed from gloomful

Questions about gloomful

What does gloomful mean?
Gloomful means gloomy.
What part of speech is gloomful?
Gloomful is an adjective.

Words near gloomful in the dictionary

  1. gloom and doom
  2. gloom-and-doomer
  3. gloom-and-doomers
  4. gloomcore
  5. gloomed
  6. gloomful
  7. gloomfully
  8. gloomier
  9. gloomies
  10. gloomiest
  11. gloomily

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