Definitions
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- adjective archaic partially or totally dark.
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- adjective
gloomy
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- adjective depressingly dark
Etymologies
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gloom + -ful
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Examples
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If it were anything you'd like to hear, but why should you know what is all sad and gloomful?
We Two, a novel Edna Lyall 1880
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