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Definition of Gloomful
1. Adjective. Depressingly dark. "`gloomful' is archaic"
Definition of Gloomful
1. Adjective. (archaic or poetic) gloomy ¹
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Definition of Gloomful
1. gloomy [adj] - See also: gloomy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gloomful
Literary usage of Gloomful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil, Theodore Chickering Williams (1908)
"... and her stream Roars from its haunted well, exhaling through Vast, gloomful
woods its pestilential air. ..."
2. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"... then veering wide, Bush down into the gloomful gorge, The steel hoof showering
sparks as from a forge. Even Nehemiah, in senile tone Of dreamy interest, ..."
3. History of Prose Fiction by John Colin Dunlop (1906)
"Fundamentally, however, he views life with the same gloomful glance that so
generally characterizes Russian writers, and shares with the majority of them ..."
4. History of Prose Fiction by John Colin Dunlop (1906)
"Fundamentally, however, he views life with the same gloomful glance that so
generally characterizes Russian writers, and shares with the majority of them ..."
5. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"... and her stream Roars from its haunted well, exhaling through Vast, gloomful
woods its pestilential air. ..."
6. The Metropolitan (1839)
"Nor woo unto thy breast a bride of sorrow.— The darkest night hath still its
coming morrow, When sunshine may successfully contend With gloomful shadow. ..."
7. Poems by James Clarence Mangan, John Mitchel (1859)
"... her son Low in her gloomful dome ! "' Yet, go rejoicing! He who reigns O'er
Earth alone, leaves worlds unscanned. Life binds the spirit as with chains; ..."
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