doomy

/ ˈduːmɪ /

adjective

1. despondent or pessimistic
2. depressing, frightening, or chilling

Derived Forms

• ˈdoomily, adverb

Example Sentences

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

Set across the course of several doomy days in Cole’s life, the film sticks uncomfortably close to him as he stumbles through a swirl of personal drama, promotional appearances, fan adulation and decadent indulgence, interrupted by the occasional jolt of actual creativity.

From Los Angeles Times

The goal seems to be to inject an extra shot of gravitas into the doomy denouements of the former president’s recent speeches.

From Washington Post