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GLOOMY

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gloomy adjectiv

1. sumbru, întunecos, întunecat.

2. (despre privelişti) trist, mohorât, posomorât; lugubru.

3. cătrănit, posomorât, întunecat (la faţă); melancolic, trist, mâhnit, descurajat;

to become gloomy a se posomorî.

4. (despre cer, timp etc.) întunecat, înnorat, închis, mohorât, posomorât.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

"It seems gloomy," said the Scarecrow.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

His world was gloomy; but he did not know that, for he knew no other world.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Mr. Rochester, as he sat in his damask-covered chair, looked different to what I had seen him look before; not quite so stern—much less gloomy.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

So we must be as merry as we can, that she may not be dwelling upon such gloomy things.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

I had before regarded my promise with a gloomy despair as a thing that, with whatever consequences, must be fulfilled; but I now felt as if a film had been taken from before my eyes and that I for the first time saw clearly.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Away, near the mouth of the river, a great fire was glowing among the trees, and between that point and the ship one of the gigs kept coming and going, the men, whom I had seen so gloomy, shouting at the oars like children.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

The fisherman went, but his heart was very heavy: and when he came to the sea, it looked blue and gloomy, though it was very calm; and he went close to the edge of the waves, and said: (...)

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

On the next day, still bundled up in my curious habiliments, I sat counting the time, flushed and heated by the conflict of sinking hopes and rising fears within me; and waiting to be startled by the sight of the gloomy face, whose non-arrival startled me every minute.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Perhaps he thinks it gloomy.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

The road was smooth and well paved, now, and the country about was beautiful, so that the travelers rejoiced in leaving the forest far behind, and with it the many dangers they had met in its gloomy shades.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

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