doomy
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈduːmi/
- Rhymes: -uːmi
Adjective
doomy (comparative doomier, superlative doomiest)
- Filled with doom and gloom: depressing or pessimistic
- 1995, Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing, Vintage, published 2007, page 29:
- Those children playing didn't look like doomy little criminals, once you knew their names.
- 7 December 2021, Jesse Hassenger, “Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satire Don’t Look Up”, in AV Club:
- What makes Don’t Look Up such a movie of the moment also makes it less of a functional movie at all, and more of a cranky, doomy, occasionally funny headspace.
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