doomy

British  

/ ˈduːmɪ /

adjective

1. despondent or pessimistic

2. depressing, frightening, or chilling

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Other Word Forms

• doomily adverb

Example Sentences

But when they all bore down on the doomy grandeur of “Hey Hey, My My,” they sounded like a freight train barreling in one direction.

From Los Angeles Times

The economy is coughing, spluttering and wheezing – "the sickness of stagnation and decline" as Sir Keir Starmer puts it -- and the government's critics - including, privately, some of its own senior ministers - reflect now that their doomy and gloomy language early on did not help, and perhaps made things worse.

From BBC

Despite making his name with doomy dystopian electropop, he stubbornly treated the audience to a heaping portion of late-period stuff: grinding industrial rock from a phase when he appeared to be following the lead of Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.

From Los Angeles Times

“There’s certainly plenty of things to be doomy about,” Nye says.

From Seattle Times

The outside world was chaos, collapse and deprivation, but the hexagonal pieces of a board game called Catan imposed a geometric peace on a doomy evening, if only for an hour at a time, with a glass of cab sauv and three covid-bubbled friends.

From Washington Post