(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.
Lowery
Definition:
(a.) Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
Example Sentences:
(1) Albeit an unloveable, slightly scary Ron Burgundy in a 'I may now be a low level Tesco manager in a cheap suit but I still remember how to handle a stanley knife' kind of way," reckons Robert Lowery, who is forgetting that Jim White has a phone.
(2) From Lowery’s subsequent account, it appears that Jackson intervened and ordered their release.
(3) One week later, assistant director Ed Lowery suggested leaking embarrassing information about Chaffetz in retaliation for aggressive investigations by the House oversight and government reform committee into a series of agency missteps and scandals, the report said.
(4) With no charges, no police report August 14, 2014 Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) It's as if the arrest and the assaults never took place.
(5) Lowery added: "he focus at BAE and EADS has got to be what's going on in France, Germany, Spain and the UK, as well, of course, as with their shareholders and employees.
(6) And because of men and women like John Lewis, Joseph Lowery, Hosea Williams, Amelia Boynton, Diane Nash, Ralph Abernathy, CT Vivian, Andrew Young, Fred Shuttlesworth, Dr King, and so many more, the idea of a just America, a fair America, an inclusive America, a generous America – that idea ultimately triumphed.
(7) Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) "The chief thought he was doing you a favor" - police officer tells me about release.
(8) And it could be a longer negotiation than 75 days," said Lowery.
(9) Last week Ryan J Reilly of the Huffington Post and Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post were detained for several hours .
(10) The following terms are discussed: posterior caval channel, sinus venarum, torus Loweri, atrial septa, and foramen ovale, respectively.
(11) Brie Rogers Lowery, campaigns director for Change.org in the UK, said that in a era where people were increasingly rejecting top-down decision-making, sites such as Change.org put power back in their hands.
(12) Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) Officers decided we weren't leaving McDonalds quickly enough, shouldn't have been taping them.
(13) Clay Lowery, a former US treasury official who oversaw the CFIUS process under George W Bush, said he expected the deal to go through, but scrutiny is likely to last longer than 75 days – the minimum 30-day inquiry plus a 45-day extension.
(14) A number of other artists have also been in the news, publicly complaining about streaming music services ( Black Keys , Aimee Mann and David Lowery of Camper van Beethoven and Cracker).
(15) The Washington Post condemned the detention of its journalist, Wesley Lowery, as “illegal” and an “assault on the freedom of the press to cover the news”.
(16) These results were surprising because Klebsiella pneumoniae Fe-protein substituted by His-100 had been reported to be inactive (Lowery, R. G., Chang, C. L., Davis, L. C., McKenna, M.-C., Stevens, P. J., and Ludden, P. W. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 1206-1212).
(17) Lowery was illegally instructed to stop taking video and followed police instructions, Baron said, after which he was slammed into a machine and handcuffed.
(18) They mocked him August 14, 2014 Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) Got no explaination at any point why in custody other than "trespassing" - at a mcdonalds where we were customers August 14, 2014 Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) I'm emotional, but need to note: Ryan and I are fine.
(19) August 14, 2014 Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) Officers slammed me into a fountain soda machine because I was confused about which door they were asking me to walk out of August 14, 2014 Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) Was waiting to be taken away, large black man SCREAMING for help in back of police truck August 14, 2014 Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) They refused his several calls for paramedics August 14, 2014 Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) "I'm dying.
(20) Lowery and Reilly both tweeted about being asked to leave the restaurant moments before they were seen being arrested.