(superl.) Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.
(superl.) Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysts at RBS said that on the basis of these gloomy figures, industrial output in the eurozone as a whole looked likely to have declined by about 4% in the final quarter of 2008.
(2) On 1 January 1832, he reports that: "The new year to my jaundiced senses bore a most gloomy appearance.
(3) It would be a mistake to rush it.” But, while revealing disappointing trading figures for the Christmas period and a gloomy outlook for 2017 , Wolfson said he did not think Brexit jitters were stopping people from shopping: “It is more the fact that incomes are likely to be squeezed.” Next's gloomy 2017 forecast drags down fashion retail shares Read more Wolfson was one of a handful of senior business leaders to openly back Brexit but has said in the past that the referendum vote was about UK independence, not isolation, and the country should be aiming for “an open, global-facing economy”.
(4) Sales on the high street were much higher than expected this month, rising at their fastest rate in six years as consumers defied the gloomy economic outlook.
(5) He said the fact that the chancellor, George Osborne, had given permission to the Bank of England to pump more economy into the economy in another round of so-called "quantitative easing" – coupled with gloomy employment figures from the US – was evidence of how fragile the economy was.
(6) The gloomy feedback from industry has raised the prospect of a triple-dip recession and a further worsening of the government's finances.
(7) The Lib Dem cabinet minister said he would "tell it as I see it" as he delivered a gloomy economic forecast, predicting "difficult times" ahead.
(8) Microsoft: bitter medicine But the story is gloomy for Microsoft.
(9) Now, however, the new administration of Hassan Rouhani is taking steps to open up Iran to foreigners in an effort to improve its international image after the gloomy years under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – and to bring in much-needed foreign currency to an economy reeling from years of sanctions.
(10) Thus, the prognosis of CNS granulocytic sarcoma is not uniformly gloomy if treated aggressively by combined modalities.
(11) The outlook is gloomy in the light of the potential for widespread disruption of normal social and economic activities.
(12) After a bright start to the morning, the day will turn gloomy as the solar wind lashes Britain with energetic particles and an enormous ball of magnetised plasma slams into Earth bringing a few days of geomagnetic storms.
(13) Steven Fletcher's return from long-term injury was one of few positives on another gloomy day for travelling Mackems and the Scotland striker levelled the scores with a fine header after the interval, when he had been brought on for a supposedly angry Ji.
(14) Britain Chancellor George Osborne is to downgrade his growth forecasts for the UK after a series of gloomy business surveys and sharply declining consumer confidence.
(15) With so many gloomy headlines, it would be easy to believe that irreversible runaway climate change is now inevitable .
(16) As our ambient lighting is gradually reduced from a high level, subjects use the following words - bright, gloomy, dim and dark.
(17) Click here for the Magic in the Moonlight trailer Compared with the gloomy ruminations on ageing and aspiration that characterised the well-received Blue Jasmine, which won Cate Blanchett an Oscar , this is Allen going back to the knockabout farce and blithe May-December couplings that populate his lighter films.
(18) The upstairs living room, which I remember from the last time I interviewed her as slightly gloomy, crowded with towers of books and magazines and oppressive paintings and wall hangings, is today brightened by yet more flowers, all in deep shades of orange and red.
(19) This portends a gloomy scenario for the poorer populations of Europe in the 1990s.
(20) The gloomy outlook for the sector came as the music chain HMV followed camera-supplier Jessops into administration after lengthy battles by both companies to unearth business models that could compete with online retailers.
Hazy
Definition:
(n.) Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent.
(n.) Obscure; confused; not clear; as, a hazy argument; a hazy intellect.
Example Sentences:
(1) The distinction between state and private business has become increasingly hazy.
(2) Heterotypic staining, consisting of a diffused hazy fluorescence, was observed only at the highest concentrations of conjugate and not above the 1:10 dilution.
(3) Major parenchymal features seen at CT included thickened intralobular and interlobular lines, subpleural curvilinear lines, pleural-based nodular irregularities, hazy patches of increased attenuation, small cystic spaces, and small areas of low attenuation.
(4) I just thought it was a little beyond me this year.” On those hazy days in London Ennis-Hill had blown away the opposition with a nerveless and spectacularly quick hurdles on the opening morning of competition that left her cruising to victory.
(5) When applied the method usually yielded results close to the DIP method and due to its high sensitivity AS determinations in very dilute and hazy solutions are possible.
(6) On a clear day you can see the Timahoe round tower to the south, the Wicklow mountains to the east and the Slieve Bloom mountains to the west, but even when the skies are hazy, the views are majestic.
(7) The basement membrane zone becomes broader and hazy, later undergoing disintegration and destruction, concomitant with swelling and homogenization of the reticular distribution of fibronectin in the papillary dermis.
(8) Serially obtained synovial fluid specimens were yellow and clear or hazy and had good mucinous precipitate quality at all times in all horses, except 2, in which the catheter required readjustment.
(9) In freshly plated PMV, keratin appears as hazy staining (less than 4 hr) and later organizes into keratin 'plaques' (4 days) associated with cell-cell contacts; post confluent (greater than 7 days) PMV cultures contain fully assembled cytokeratin filaments which extend to the cell periphery and approach filaments in apposed cells.
(10) While TCP was characterized by the frequent occurrence of large, discrete, dense calculi, patients with ACP had typically small, speckled calculi with irregular, hazy margins.
(11) Solutions stored in PVC bags became more hazy with time than solutions stored in glass or polyolefin containers.
(12) I just have some hazy recollection of seeing a bone sticking out of my left wrist."
(13) Information about the suspects, their backgrounds and what their role was in the murder of Nemtsov remains hazy.
(14) That would be an unfortunate ending to a process that should have been a timely intervention on a vital issue but now looks likely to splutter to a hazy conclusion.
(15) Some fear that the precise effects on the mosquitoes’ ecosystems are still hazy (while they might be our nemeses, there are fish that think they’re delicious).
(16) My alarm goes off at 7am and hazy-eyed I throw on my swimming costume and head to the lido across the road from my east London flat.
(17) The CT findings include; (1) granular pattern with acino-centric distribution, (2) increase in density of haziness in the lung fields, (3) multiform high density areas, and (4) "subpleural curvilinear shadow" localized posteriorly.
(18) After a deliberately hazy and meandering first half – one that lulls both reader and characters into a false sense of security – the second part of the novel barely breathes.
(19) Their appearance was granular with indistinct, hazy outlines, and on cross section they were solid rather than tubular.
(20) I’ve heard people say it in the past few years about black players and I think: ‘Well, you don’t really understand black players if that’s what your attitude is.’ They have the same goals and ambitions as everyone else.” In the informal, qualification-hazy world of football management, it’s always been about who you know, not what you know.