doomy

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Etymology

From doom +‎ -y.

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doomy (comparative doomier, superlative doomiest)

  1. Filled with doom and gloom: depressing or pessimistic
    • 1988 November 4, Franklin Soults, “Sonic Youth”, in Chicago Reader‎:
      Their big hit at the time was "Death Valley '69," a typical droney, doomy replay of the Manson murders that was about as illuminating as your average TV mini series.
    • 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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