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gloomful en · ADJ

Etymology

From gloom + -ful.

Meanings

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:

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Deriveds

gloomfully