Meaning

noun an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

noun a feeling of melancholy apprehension

noun the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

originEtymology tree English gloomy Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English gloominess From gloomy + -ness.

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