Gloomies

//ˈɡluːmiz// noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Preceded by the: gloom, despondency. informal, plural, plural-only

    "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."

  2. 2
    plural of gloomy form-of, informal, plural

Synonyms

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disconsolategloomfuldarkdullsombersunless

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"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."

Etymology

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”).

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