word originally had the same root with the adjective "gloomy."So talking about the overcast skies and rainy weather is inclement.Synonyms are words "dark, sunless, cloudy, gray, dull."Example: "The day was bad weather, gloomy, sullen."
frown
Other value of the token is associated with the previous, but has a metaphorical meaning.The word refers to a state of mind and the corresponding appearance of the person.The meaning of words can be interpreted as synonymous with "inhospitable, bleak, lean, gloomy, menacing, cold, rather bleak."Example:
- «I still dream about their sullen eyes and murmur."
Angry man
By analogy with the gloomy overcast day and the psychological experience of the word and call the person other than gloomy and severe temper.Synonymous for a number of lexical meaning "closed, unsociable, angry, angry.Examples:
- «Kuzma was a stocky man of medium height, taciturn and sullen."
- «Gloomy unsociable clerk silently handed a note."
Wordplay
Dictionary of Russian language leads all three semantic characteristics.Sources stress that the spoken is the word "gloomy", which defines a bleak, depressing, gloomy mood.It is noteworthy that the synonyms for each of the values of the words often sound alike:
Gloomy Petersburg
specificity of this eloquent adjective is that it characterizes the object from several sides, so that we can talk about subtext.The combination of this adjective with the word Petersburg, for example, may lie just three meanings, one of which, at the option of the author, it sounds outright, while others may be implied.
- Overcome bad weather city with gray skies and drizzle.
- sad, bleak mood prevailing in the granite city.
- somber, austere character of the northern capital, has survived the revolution and war.
Grammar Portrait word
This qualitative adjective that might lean, has a full and brief forms and degrees of comparison.Strengthen the meaning of the word helps a combination of "a gloomy, sullen" or its synonym "prehmury."
set phrases that can replace a token in its figurative meaning, as follows: "looks like a wolf (owl)", "cloud-cloud", "dark clouds", "looks September."
