Meanings
adjectivedoomy and gloomy (comparative doomier and gloomier, superlative doomiest and gloomiest)
comparative doomier and gloomier · superlative doomiest and gloomiest
- informalFull of doom and gloom.
The opposite of an escapist blockbuster, the eighth and apparently final outing for Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt is the doomiest and gloomiest yet in the action-adventure franchise.
2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC
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