Adjective

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Filled with doom and gloom: depressing or pessimistic

* {{quote-news, year=1988, date=November 4, author=Franklin Soults, title=Sonic Youth, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=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 2007, p. 29:

Those children playing didn't look like doomy little criminals, once you knew their names.

Adjective

(er)

Characterized by heavy bass sounds.

* 1999 , Jon Chappell, The Recording Guitarist: A Guide for Home and Studio , page 54,

If you're miking a boomy acoustic, the proximity effect can work against you, but having it on a thin-sounding arch-top can work for you.

* 2007 , Gary Gottlieb, Shaping Sound in the Studio and Beyond: Audio Aesthetics and Technology , page 250,

As an airliner approaches you from a long way off, the sound is first heard as rumble, and, as it get closer and then directly overhead, the sound becomes increasingly boomier .

* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 26, author=Allan Kozinn, title=In Precise Movements, a Russian Sense of Drama, work=New York Times citation

, passage=For the third movement Mr. Safronov had Schubert’s piano sketch as a guide, but his big, boomy orchestration, with a gentle pastoral trio at its core, sounded jarring after the first two movements.}}

Of or pertaining to a financial boom, resources boom, baby boom, etc.

* Rudyard Kipling, quoted in 1992 , John William Reps, The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States , page 412,

Tacoma was literally staggering under a boom of the boomiest . I do not quite remember what her natural resources were supposed to be,.

* 1903 , Mining Magazine: An International Monthly Review of Current Progress in Mining and Metallurgy , Volume 7, page 132,

A larger amount of capital is seeking investment than in the boomiest of boom times, yet there is no boom now.

* 1979 , Business Week , Issues 2592-2600, page 72,

Even in boomier times, the flexibility that leasing provides has become increasingly important to companies.