GLOOMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gloomily mean? 

• GLOOMILY (adverb)
  The adverb GLOOMILY has 1 sense:

1. with gloom

  Familiarity information: GLOOMILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOOMILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With gloom

Context example:

such a change is gloomily foreseen by many

Pertainym:

gloomy (filled with melancholy and despondency)

 Context examples 

They ate hurriedly and gloomily, with but little conversation, and as Martin ate and listened he realized how far he had travelled from their status.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Check number one,” said Holmes, looking gloomily over the rolling expanse of the moor.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Night also closed around; and when I could hardly see the dark mountains, I felt still more gloomily.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The lawyer listened gloomily; he did not like his friend’s feverish manner.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“My harness is yours by the law of arms,” said the Spaniard, gloomily.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No wonder that we looked gloomily at each other that night, and sought our blankets with hardly a word exchanged.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Womble looked gloomily at her, noting her cough.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Capital, madam, capital,” urged Mr. Micawber, gloomily.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I wish I had thought to bring Wolf Larsen’s chronometer and sextant,” I said, still gloomily.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was hard to believe that these were the same walls which loomed so gloomily through the fogs of winter.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)