Definitions

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  • adjective archaic partially or totally dark.

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  • adjective gloomy

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  • adjective depressingly dark

Etymologies

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gloom +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • If it were anything you'd like to hear, but why should you know what is all sad and gloomful?

    We Two, a novel Edna Lyall 1880

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