Gloomy vs Fearful - What's the difference?
gloomy | fearful |
Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.
Frightening.
Frightened, filled with terror.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
Terrible.
Tending to fear.
As adjectives the difference between gloomy and fearful
is that gloomy is imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded while fearful is frightening.gloomy
English
Adjective
(er)- The cavern was gloomy .
- a gloomy temper or countenance
Synonyms
* See alsofearful
English
Alternative forms
* fearefull (obsolete) * fearfull (obsolete)Adjective
(fearfuller)- Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns [...].
- fearful boy