Gloomily
//ˈɡluːmɪli// adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In a gloomy manner.
"[T]he sedate monk's hood lifted its head still higher and looked gloomily and wickedly down on it, while it nodded and kept time to the cuckoo's song, as if it were counting how many days it had to live."
Adverb
- 1 with gloom wordnet
Example
More examples"Baker Street was like an oven, and the glare of the sunlight upon the yellow brickwork of the house across the road was painful to the eye. It was hard to believe that these were the same walls which loomed so gloomily through the fogs of winter."
Etymology
From gloomy + -ly.
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