The Clue
Not as bright (8 letter answer)
The Answer
GLOOMIER
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Notes
The answer GLOOMIER is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
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Definition
GLOOMY as an adjective:
1. (gloomy, grim, darkening) = characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"
2. (blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary) = causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
3. (glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky) = depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"
4. (depressing, depressive, gloomy, saddening) = causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"
5. (glum, gloomy, long-faced) = reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"