adjective
- (of the sky or weather) dark, threatening, and overcast; gloomy
Usage: chiefly Scottish and Northern English dialect; also spelled 'lowry' or 'lowery'
Examples
- The loury clouds gathered overhead, suggesting rain was coming.
- It was a loury morning, with no sign of the sun breaking through.
- The loury sky cast a gray shadow over the entire landscape.
- Despite the loury weather, they decided to go for a walk.
- A loury day like this always makes me want to stay indoors.