adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bleak/gloomy/grim picture (= giving the impression that something is or will be bad )
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The report paints a bleak picture of the economy.
a dire/gloomy prediction (= saying that something bad will happen )
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There have been some gloomy predictions about the economy recently.
gloomy/grim/bleak
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Many Britons face the grim prospect of having their home repossessed.
paint a grim/rosy/gloomy picture of sb/sth
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Dickens painted a grim picture of Victorian life.
pessimistic/gloomy (= expecting bad things to happen )
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Scientists have produced a gloomy forecast on the effects of global warming.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
rather
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It is perhaps important to redress the rather gloomy tone which has crept into this section, by making two points.
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By the time the group reached Brescia, the clouds had descended again, and the factory was rather gloomy inside.
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All of this seems to have painted a rather gloomy picture.
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Using a historical analysis, Nehring and Van lest provide a rather gloomy set of forecasts.
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The boy Jack - it was John in those days - was born into an uncertain and rather gloomy world.
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This rather gloomy picture of the troubles of the daughter at home obviously does not apply in every case.
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In this rather gloomy context, has the community development approach anything to offer?
so
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He hadn't realized the road would be so gloomy .
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Never did the prospect look so gloomy for an army....
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Our original fears were so gloomy , our expectations so low, that almost anything would be better.
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The results were a very mixed bag, with some of them so gloomy they refused to be quoted.
too
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No doubt that was too gloomy a picture.
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Leon Carvalho, the powerful director of Paris' Opera-Comique, rejected the score for being too gloomy for his audiences.
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I doubt if my picture, though depressing, is too gloomy .
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For fascists, however, Spengler's prophecies were too gloomy .
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But I felt too gloomy to put myself into the greater gloom of the street.
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But perhaps this is too gloomy and bleak a view.
■ NOUN
picture
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All of this seems to have painted a rather gloomy picture .
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He brings a book of verse with a few gloomy pictures .
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Domestic economic factors further complicated this gloomy picture .
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Malthus' gloomy picture of human life seems to many contemporary commentators much too atomistic and adversarial.
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He said a survey had disclosed a gloomy picture of growing waiting lists, homelessness, and repair problems.
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There was one solitary corrective to this gloomy picture .
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This rather gloomy picture of the troubles of the daughter at home obviously does not apply in every case.
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They objected to being given an unnecessarily gloomy picture at first.
prediction
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Horror stories, complaints and gloomy predictions are plentiful.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a gloomy economic forecast
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A year ago it seemed that a peace treaty looked possible, but now the outlook is much gloomier.
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Evidence that the world's population is increasing faster than ever implies a gloomy prospect for humanity: starvation.
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I never liked visiting Dr Allen in his gloomy old study.
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Most political analysts are gloomy about the country's future.
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Professor Vardell was a gloomy man who never smiled.
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The bar was gloomy and smelled of stale cigar smoke.
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The world's largest chip maker gave a gloomy forecast for the first quarter.
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This latest survey presents a gloomy picture of the Russian economy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But even the gloomier numbers do not portray the scope for disaster.
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Domestic economic factors further complicated this gloomy picture.
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He looks somewhat gloomy and withdrawn.
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Sitting on the terrace or in gloomy corridors to hide their shame.
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The story is not entirely gloomy .
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Then, to our left, the outline of a tree rose out of the gloomy fog surrounding it.
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Victor is at a dark little table in a gloomy corner.