Dizionario Polacco - Inglese

ponury in inglese:

1. gloomy

He looks gloomy.

He looked so gloomy after he lost his job that his brother paid for a holiday for him.

gloomy castle

It is such gloomy and dull days like today that make me really depressed

The vet is rather gloomy about my cat's chances of recovery.

It is not my intention to paint an entirely gloomy picture.

The cemetery is a gloomy place. Despite gloomy predictions, the stock market remains strong. It was another gray, gloomy day.

... actually don't buy this gloomy narrative, and I don't...

Kirby's quintessentially Japanese cuteness is almost incomprehensible to his American audience, who satirize him as a dark and gloomy character constantly, almost as a reflex.

I got gloomy and thought of giving up.

The sky is gloomy and gray - a typical rainy-season sky.

It’s such a gloomy day, it looks as if it’s going to rain any minute.

During her long illness, Mary felt gloomy about being confined to the house for so long.

unhappy and without hope: a gloomy person/expression The cemetery is a gloomy place.

It was as gloomy inside the mansion as the sunlight was dazzling outside.

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2. drear

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3. cheerless

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4. dismal

dismal conditions/surroundings/weather

The prospects for Japan's future look dismal.

The house looked very dismal.

What dismal weather!

The outlook for the defense program is dismal.

She was sad and dismal.

The dismal weather made the late afternoon seem like evening

When it turned out I didn't pass the exam I felt dismal.

What dismal weather. That was a dismal performance.

The trip was a dismal failure.

Hospitals are drab, dismal places not designed to heal.

The acting was dismal, wasn't it? What dismal weather!

A public place so dismal that the winos don't even want to go there.

In India, however, the situation is dismal.

That doctrine will no doubt lead to dismal consequences.

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5. sullen

he replied sullenly

sullen skies that matched our mood on the day of the funeral

His daughters stared back at him with an expression of sullen resentment.

My grandpa was bad-tempered but definitely not sullen

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6. glum

glum silence

He looked glum.

Don't be so glum about it. Life has its ups and downs.

Their glum expressions were an understandable human reaction

Daniel had every reason to be happy, but he still felt glum and couldn’t say why he felt that way.

This, Eli thought glumly, was a classic joke in the making.

He was glum about my refusal.

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7. bleak

a bleak outlook/prospect

They paint a bleak picture of future.

... picker is still rather bleak.

The strenous and bleak working conditions Dickens endured found their way onto the pages of Oliver Twist

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

the playground is a bleak, empty space

Your future see bleak

1. The bleak moors are scary at night. 2. His expression remained bleak.

a bleak January afternoon

When I did, he would be sitting in his chair looking out into the bleak garden.

The company still hopes to find a buyer, but the future looks bleak.

Sadly, the prospects for young people in Lithuania today are rather bleak.

Allen was typically bleak at its press conference

The future is looking bleak for small clubs struggling with debts.

I guess my view on friendship is pretty bleak because I've never really had to rely on anyone for anything.

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8. grim

What happened? Why are you so grim?

The outlook is grim.

It's a grim world.

Marcia looked grim when I told her the story.

- Is this your first time in the north, Your Grace? I'm sure it's very grim after King's Landing.

From the doctor's grim expression, it was clear he had somber news for the patient.

In this line of work, if you make a grim face the customers won't come.

grim economic news When he lost his job, his future looked grim.

Should you prevail he offers in a grim addendum.

A grim girl on the third floor.

a grim-looking block of flats

The expression on his face was one of grim determination.

That is a bit grim, isn't it?

By the grim look on my boss' face, I knew it was going to be bad news

undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw

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9. miserable

She felt miserable.

1. She's miserable living on her own. 2. Miserable weather. / What a miserable existence! How could anyone live in such awful conditions? / 3. The book was a miserable failure.

but most mohandas's work was in Ollivant's court and he felt miserable and helpless

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

She was looking miserable sitting in the middle of this snowstorm, so I threw a small coin at her.

It's absolutely miserable outside; cold, wet rain is no good for drinking beer on the plaza with your friends.

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of people have made their friends very miserable.

I had tried to avoid thinking that as much as possible but as soon as I faced it I started to feel miserable.

miserable weather; When I'm feeling miserable I go shopping and spoil myself - a couple of new dresses always make me feel better.

The definition of miserable is someone or something that is unhappy, suffering or in a condition of misery, or something that is bad or inferior.

Let's face it – travelling by car or by public transport can be really miserable!

You are miserable coz you don't have money but you have something you can't buy- a family. Appreciate this.

"I don't want to make him miserable, I want to put him on his guard!" retorted Mr. Weasley.

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10. sombre

sombre grey

dressed in sombre shades of grey and black

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The funeral was a sombre occasion.

somberness, sombreness

A sombre atmosphere, voice, face. The funeral was a sombre occasion. I left them in a sombre mood.

A sombre expression mood colour

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11. dingy

He lives in a dingy room.

They took people one at a time into dingy little rooms.

The stores seemed old and dingy, their lights too dim and their ceilings too low.

That night I dreamed of a square, three-story, concrete building that was dark, dingy and dusty.

Our hotel was dingy.

Don't touch my dress with your dingy fingers!

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12. sinister

She has dark, sinister eyes that make you nervous when she looks at you.

in a very sinister tone,

I was frightened by the sinister shadow outside.

Was it an accident or do you suspect something more sinister?

sinister, metallic taste

The man surrendered himself with a sinister smile to the policemen around him.

There was something sinister about him

What a sinister period of history I've seen.

a sinister figure dressed in black

Séances are sinister, don´t go there, please.

A sinister-looking man sat in the corner of the room. The ruined house had a sinister appearance.

sinister smile

Meanwhile, at an abandoned gold mine... a sinister figure lurks.

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13. lurid

That's a very lurid shade of lipstick she's wearing.

Barry’s story, in which he described a character torturing his neighbour's tortoise, was judged too lurid to be published on the English Library's website.

high-priced lawyers to battle over lurid claims of jealous paranoia, drunken rages, manipulative greed and a severed fingertip.

You've read too many lurid newspaper articles

The lurid lighting of a nightclub

Day after day the tabloids titillated the public with lurid details about the president's marital infidelity.

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14. lugubrious

The rest of the movie is even heavier and more lugubrious.

a lugubrious face

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15. sulky

a sulky child

You might be sulky if your brother gets to travel to England and you don't, or if your coworker gets a promotion instead of you.

disappointment was making her sulky / she had a sultry, sulky mouth

Then he turned sulky and looked down at his feet.

16. dull

To me he's no different from a million other dull middle aged men.

dull china

In the kitchen, you're more apt to cut yourself with a dull knife than with a sharp one.

Geometry, about which I know nothing, seems like a very dull subject.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

This club is fearfully dull. The dance floor is empty and the smoking patio is packed.

To equip a dull, respectable person with wings would be but to make a parody of an angel.

If, on the other hand, children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do, they are likely to become dull and unintelligent.

Like air traffic controllers, drone pilots have high‐stress yet often dull and repetitive jobs, mostly surveilling areas for intelligence and potential targets.

It rained all the time we were there so we had a rather dull weekend sitting indoors.

The room around him became crisp, the dull firepit flaring to near blinding brightness.

If you have a dull room, what can you do to brighten it up? If you have a dull room, you can brighten it up by painting it.

dull afternoon/people/colour

Have you ever met someone as dull as he was?

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.