gloominess
- n an atmosphere of depression and melancholy
- n a feeling of melancholy apprehension
- n the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
- Lots of Wall Street economists less renowned for their gloominess have by now moved past the -3% mark.
- One of these worrywarts was Alan Greenspan--a man not known for his gloominess (or his intelligibility).
- Just as the world's financial markets are experiencing a serious mood swing, from exuberance to gloominess, so too is fashion.