All the meanings of the adjective are "gloomy". A gloomy day, a glance, a man ...

This word was originally a root withadjective "overcast". So they talked about the sky overcast and rainy weather. Synonyms are the words "dark, sunless, cloudy, gray, dull". Example: "The day was unbearable, gloomy, gloomy."

Frown

Another meaning of the lexeme is related to the previous one, buthas a metaphorical meaning. Here the word denotes the state of mind and the corresponding appearance of a person. The meaning of the word can be interpreted by synonyms "unfriendly, joyless, lean, gloomy, threatening, unflattering, joyless." Example:

• "I still dream of their gloomy looks and dissatisfied murmur."

Angry Man

By analogy with a gloomy cloudy day andpsychological experience of this word is also called a person who differs grimness and harsh temper. A synonymic series for this lexical meaning: "closed, unsociable, angry, angry. Examples:

• "Kuzma was a stocky, short man, short-tempered and gloomy."
• "A gloomy, unsociable clerk silently handed in a note."

Wordplay

Explanatory Russian dictionaries lead all threesemantic characteristics. Sources emphasize that the colloquial meaning of the word "gloomy", which determines a bleak, oppressive, gloomy mood. It is noteworthy that synonyms for each of the meanings of this word often sound the same: A gloomy sky - a gloomy mood - a gloomy man; A terrible cloud - a menacing grin - a formidable voevoda; unfriendly October - unfriendly look - unfriendly owner. Each of these adjectives without loss of meaning could be replaced by the word "gloomy".

Gloomy Petersburg

The specificity of this eloquent adjectiveis that it characterizes the object immediately from several sides, so that one can talk about subtext. In the combination of this adjective with the word Petersburg, for example, there can be three meanings at once, one of which, at the author's choice, sounds directly, while others can be implied.

1. Covered by a storm, the city with a gray sky and drizzling rain.
2. A sad, cheerless mood reigning in a granite town.
3. The gloomy, harsh nature of the northern capital, which survived the revolution and war.

Grammatical portrait of the word

This qualitative adjective, which can be inclined, has a complete and concise form and degree of comparison. Strengthen the meaning of the word helps the combination "gloomy-gloomy" or its synonym "foggy".

Phraseological turns, which can replace the lexeme in its figurative meanings, are as follows: "it looks at a wolf (owl)", "cloud-cloud", "blacker than a cloud", "looks September".