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Definition: Gloomily |
GloomilyAdverb1. With gloom; "such a change is gloomily foreseen by many". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gloomily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Crosswords: Gloomily |
| English words defined with "gloomily": Blackly. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The mist, gloomily empurpled, magnified the star |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Stephen walked on beside his friend, staring gloomily at the footpath |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Gloomily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.53% of the time. "Gloomily" is used about 213 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 99.53% | 212 | 20,813 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.47% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 213 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "gloomily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me mërzi (moodily), i mërzitur (annoyed, blue, bored, creepy, disgruntled, dissatisfied, down-hearted, fed up, gloomy, long-spun, moldy, monotone, monotonous, mouldy, pained). (various references) | |
Arabic | على نحو كئيب, على نحو مكفهر, على نحو عابس, على نحو ظالم, بحزن شديد (deplorably). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | навъсено, мрачно (darkly). (various references) | |
Czech | pochmurnì (cheerlessly). (various references) | |
French | tristement, mélancoliquement, d'un air triste, d'un air sombre, d'un air morne. (various references) | |
German | finster (dark, murky, gauntly, gloomy, murkily). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rosszkedvûen (crossly, in a bad temper), lehangolva. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oomilyglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | triste (dismal, dreary, sad, somber), sorumbático (glum, moody), sombrio (dismal, dreary, gaunt, somber), sombriamente (darkly), melancolicamente, macambúzio (glum, mopish), carregado (cloudy, dismal, fraught, gloomy, glum, laden, live, loaded, sable, thick, undischarged), calado (silent, speechless). (various references) | |
Romanian | posomorât (beetle, cheerless, dark, dismal, dull, gloomy, jaw-fallen, melancholy, mopish, overcast, somber, sombre), neclar (blind, cloudy, confused, dark, darkly, difficult, diffuse, dim, dull, feeble, foggy, hazy, inarticulate, indistinct, inexplicit, lax, muddy, obscurely, vague, vaguely), melancolic (doleful, gloomy, languorously, melancholically, melancholy, pensive, pensively, sad, somber, sombre, splenetic, wistful), cu întunecime, confuz (abashed, addle, bewildered, blurred, chaotic, confused, crabbed, dim, embarrassed, faint, hazy, hugger mugger, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, stodgy, turbid, vague, washy, wrongheaded). (various references) | |
Russian | мрачно (darkly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sumorno. (various references) | |
Spanish | tristemente (darkly, drearly, godforsakenly, miserably, mournfully, ruefully, sadly, sorrowfully), oscuramente (jungly), melancólicamente (melancholically, moodily), lóbregamente, de modo pesimista, de melancolía, con pesimismo (pessimistically). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сумно (grievously, joylessly, lamentably, moodily, mournfully, regrettably, ruefully, sadly), похмуро (darkly, gravely, mournfully, obscurely, scowlingly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Gloomily" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: loopily. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gloomily" (pronounced gluw"mulē) |
| 4 | -m u l ē | abysmally, abnormally, anomaly, dismally, facsimile, family, formally, homily, informally, minimally, multifamily, normally, steamily, subfamily, supremely. |
| 3 | -u l ē | accidentally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anecdotally, anencephaly, angrily, annually, arbitrarily, architecturally, artfully, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, blissfully, bodily, botanically, broccoli, brutally, busily, carefully, casually, centrally, cerebrally, cheerfully, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, coincidentally, comically, commercially, conceptually, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continentally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, customarily, cynically, delightfully, developmentally, diagonally, diametrically, digitally, jauntily, journalistically, joyfully, judicially, lawfully, lazily, diurnally, dorsally, dreadfully, dutifully, easily, editorially, educationally, eerily, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, environmentally, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, experimentally, exponentially, externally, extraordinarily, factually, faithfully, fanatically, fatally, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, fitfully, florally, forcefully, fractionally, frantically, frightfully, frugally, functionally, fundamentally, gainfully, generally, generationally, geographically, giggly, gleefully, globally, governmentally, gracefully, gradually, gratefully, gravelly, gravitationally, greedily, habitually, handily, happily, hastily, haughtily, heartily, heavily, helpfully, hermetically, historically, hopefully, horizontally, hungrily, icily, illegally, impartially, incidentally, incrementally, individually, industrially, initially, institutionally, intellectually, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, involuntarily, irrationally, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manfully, manually, marginally, masterfully, materially, mathematically, meaningfully, medicinally, mentally, mercifully, merrily, methodically, metrically, mightily, militarily, mineralogically, momentarily, monetarily, monopoly, monumentally, morally, mortally, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nationally, nattily, naturally, necessarily, noisily, nominally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, originally, painfully, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, peacefully, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, pitifully, playfully, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, preliminarily, presidentially, primarily, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, purposefully, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, readily, regally, regionally, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, ritualistically, romantically, royally, ruefully, sardonically, satisfactorily, scantily, scientifically, seasonally, secondarily, semiannually, sequentially, serenely, severally, sexually, skeptically, skillfully, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, statutorily, steadily, structurally, subliminally, substantially, subtly, successfully, summarily, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactfully, tactically, tangentially, tastefully, tearfully, technically, technologically, temperamentally, temporally, temporarily, terminally, territorially, testily, thankfully, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, thoughtfully, totally, traditionally, Tripoli, truthfully, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unlawfully, unnaturally, unnecessarily, unofficially, unsuccessfully, unusually, usefully, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vitally, vocally, voluntarily, warily, wearily, wiggly, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, wistfully, wittily, wobbly, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-l-l-m-o-o-y" | |
-2 letters: gloomy, logily. | |
-3 letters: gilly, gloom, golly, goyim, igloo, logoi, molly, ology. | |
-4 letters: gill, glim, glom, illy, lily, limo, limy, logo, logy, loom, mill, milo, moil, moll, moly, mool, oily, olio, yill, yogi. | |
-5 letters: goo, goy, gym, ill, log, loo, mig, mil, mog, mol, moo, oil, yom. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-l-l-m-o-o-y" | |
+1 letter: limnology. | |
+3 letters: climatology, malariology, mycological, polyglotism. | |
+4 letters: etymological, kremlinology, lognormality, mythological, polyglotisms, polyglottism. | |
+5 letters: agronomically, embryological, ergonomically, helminthology, homologically, mollycoddling, monogenically, mycologically, polyglottisms. | |
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