gloomily

C2 Topic:Animals
US /ˈɡluːmɪli/
adv Freq #170858

Meanings

  1. 1
    adv

    with gloom

    Such a change is gloomily foreseen by many.

  2. 2
    adv

    In a gloomy manner.

    [T]he sedate monk's hood lifted its head still higher and looked gloomily and wickedly down on it, while it nodded and kept time to the cuckoo's song, as if it were counting how many days it had to live.

Etymology

From gloomy + -ly.

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