gloomy forecast
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgloomyandforecast
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gloomy
adjective
uk/ˈɡluː.mi/us/ˈɡluː.mi/
unhappy and ...
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forecast
noun[C]
uk/ˈfɔː.kɑːst/us/ˈfɔːr.kæst/
a statement of what is judged likely to happen in the future, especially in connection with a particular situation, or the expected ...
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(Definition ofgloomyandforecastfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Hisgloomyforecastof what will happen in the next four years makes me feel that the opening speech today was all the more regrettable.
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Thatgloomyforecastmay even be too conservative.
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Moreover, all police organisations are making the samegloomyforecast.
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Whether he withdraws or not, the facts are that hisgloomyforecastas to what the formula would do has not been justified by experience.
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I am glad to say that, however bad the figures, they have fallen considerably short of thatgloomyforecast.
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That characteristicallygloomyforecastis out of line with expectations.
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It is agloomyforecast.
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Gloomy forecasts were made about the future of the palm oil industry, particularly, the possibility of its eventual demise.
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There are frequent gloomy forecasts about the decline of informal care due to the falling birth-rate and the increasing engagement of women in the paid labour market.
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I hope that his gloomy forecasts of the future will not be borne out.
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As for the gloomy forecasts made that it would break down from the start, they have been completely falsified.
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There has been drastic action and gloomy forecasts alternating with largesse and hopeful prophecies.
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It will not help the problem if we make unrealistic, gloomy forecasts.
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No one should take any pleasure from such gloomy forecasts.
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In the past few months a succession of reports have made gloomy forecasts about the future of our warship building.
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If they do, we will come out of the recession a little faster than the gloomy forecasts made in this debate have suggested.
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These rather gloomy forecasts are based, in their turn, on the estimates of available resources and possible developments that are themselves extremely optimistic.
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There are already gloomy forecasts that we may be heading for another recession.
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There have been various gloomy forecasts made in the course of this debate.
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Yesterday he was at it again, but finding it even more difficult to make his gloomy forecasts stick.
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