Gloomful

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    gloomy archaic, poetic

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    depressingly dark wordnet

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From gloom + -ful.

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