gloomy
英 ['gluːmɪ]
美 ['ɡlumi]
英語の語源
- gloomy (adj.)
- 1580s, probably from gloom (n.) even though that word is not attested as early as this one. Shakespeare used it of woods, Marlowe of persons. Gloomy Gus has been used in a general sense of "sullen person" since 1902, the name of a pessimistic and defeatist newspaper comics character introduced about that time by U.S. illustrator Frederick Burr Opper. Related: Gloomily; gloominess.
例文
- 1. Some good might come of all this gloomy business.
- 不景気も必ずしも悪いことばかりではありません。
- 2.The country is currently obsessed with gloomy prognostications about its future.
- 同国には現在、未来への悲観的な予測が立ち込めている。
- 3.The short-term outlook for employment remains gloomy .
- 最近の雇用見通しは依然として暗い。
- 4.Inside it 's gloomy after all that sunshine.
- 明るい日差しにもかかわらず、中は暗くなっています。
- 5.They found him in gloomy ，downbeat mood.
- 彼らは彼が落ち込んでいるのを発見して、元気がない。