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gloomies

Syllables: gloom·ies/ˈɡluːmiz//ˈɡlumiz/

gloomies noun: preceded by the: gloom, despondency. Also the plural of gloomy.

Noun

gloomies pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only) Preceded by the: gloom, despondency.
    • The drear departing day, the coming night, / Increase the gloomies of the tempest's sound, / And damp the last faint hope those trembling souls had found.1825, [Richard Rotton], “Canto I”, in Herban, a Poem. In Four Cantos, London: G. B. Whittaker, […], →OCLC, stanza XXXVI, page 23
    • […] Chichester was too good-natured not to exert himself for the enlivenment of a handsome girl suffering under a fit of the gloomies—more especially of one who happened to be an intimate friend of his sweet Cecilia!1840, [Catherine] Gore, chapter XI, in The Dowager; or, The New School for Scandal. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […] , →OCLC, page 295

Also used as

gloomies is also the plural of gloomy.

Examples of gloomies in a sentence

  • Don't get the gloomies and be a martyr, please.1964, H[erbert] E[rnest] Bates, chapter 15, in A Moment in Time, London: Pollinger in Print, published 2006, →ISBN, page 168:
  • If anything can keep away the gloomies and bad luck, this will.2004 August, Flo Fitzpatrick, chapter 29, in Ghost of a Chance, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 287:
  • He's down in the dumps because nobody wants to buy his art and his wife died, while she's got a case of the gloomies in response to public apathy for the plight of the underclass.2018 December 12, Charles Bramesco, “A Spoonful of Nostalgia Helps the Calculated Mary Poppins Returns Go Down”, in The A.V. Club, archived...

Origin of gloomies

A fanciful plural of gloomy: gloomy + -ies (suffix forming plural nouns ending in y). Gloom is derived from Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight; darkness”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, glow, shimmer”).

Questions about gloomies

What does gloomies mean?
Gloomies means preceded by the: gloom, despondency.
How do you use gloomies in a sentence?
Don't get the gloomies and be a martyr, please.
What part of speech is gloomies?
Gloomies is a noun.
How do you pronounce gloomies?
Gloomies is pronounced /ˈɡluːmiz/ (UK).

Words near gloomies in the dictionary

  1. gloomcore
  2. gloomed
  3. gloomful
  4. gloomfully
  5. gloomier
  6. gloomies
  7. gloomiest
  8. gloomily
  9. gloominess
  10. gloominesses
  11. glooming

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