Modern English → Old English
Old English word for gloomy
4 headwords match “gloomy”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 4 strongest follow; gealgmod ranks first.
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gloomy — gloomy, sad, furious
- opens the headword's definition
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine ġealgmōd strong nominative singular feminine ġealgmōd strong nominative singular neuter ġealgmōd strong accusative singular masculine ġealgmōdne strong accusative singular feminine ġealgmōde strong accusative singular neuter ġealgmōd -
gloomy — dark
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary strong nominative singular masculine þīestre strong nominative singular feminine þīestru, þīestro strong nominative singular neuter þīestre strong accusative singular masculine þīesterne strong accusative singular feminine þīestre strong accusative singular neuter þīestre -
gloomy — to become dark, gloomy
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative drysmiġe first-person singular past indicative drysmode second-person singular present indicative drysmast second-person singular past indicative drysmodest third-person singular present indicative drysmaþ third-person singular past indicative drysmode -
gloomy — to darken, be obscured
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative sweorce first-person singular past indicative swearc second-person singular present indicative swiercst second-person singular past indicative swurce third-person singular present indicative swiercþ third-person singular past indicative swearc
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “gloomy” gets the points below; the candidates are then sorted by total. The score is shown on each entry above so the order can be checked rather than trusted.
| The English word opens the headword's definition | +10 |
| It appears later in the first definition | +6 |
| It appears in any definition | +3 |
| It is in the headword's links | +2 |
| It is listed as an English descendant (etymological evidence) | +9 |
| The headword has an inflection table | +3 |
| Part of speech is a proper noun | −5 |
| Part of speech is a verb (-ian derivations are noisy) | −3 |
| The headword is an alternative form | −6 |
| The first definition is longer than three words | −2 |
A candidate has to be a real headword with its own entry: inflected forms and grammatical terminology (genitive, nominative, preterite, …) never appear here.
Not one of these?
The match may be a different sense of “gloomy”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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