About The Word Gloom
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Gloom
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What's The Definition Of Gloom?
[n] a feeling of melancholy apprehension
[n] a state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to dispell the gloom" [n] an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office" Synonyms | Synonyms for Gloom: gloominess | gloominess | glumness | somberness | somberness | sombreness Related Terms | Find terms related to Gloom: adumbrate | becloud | bedarken | bedim | begloom | black | black out | blacken | blackness | bleakness | block the light | blot out | blues | brood | brown | cast a shadow | cloud | cloud over | cloudiness | dark | dark shade | darken | darken over | darkle | darkness | dejection | depression | desolation | despair | despondency | dim | dim out | dimness | dismalness | doldrums | dolor | downheartedness | dreariness | dullness | dumps | dusk | eclipse | encloud | encompass with shadow | frown | gloam | gloominess | glower | gravity | grimace | grimness | grow dark | grow dim | knit the brow | look black | look sullen | low spirits | lower | lowering | make a lip | make a moue | melancholy | mere shadow | misery | mope | moroseness | murk | murkiness | obfuscate | obnubilate | obscure | obscurity | obumbrate | occult | occultate | overcast | overcloud | overshadow | penumbra | pout | sadness | scowl | shade | shadiness | shadow | shadowiness | shadows numberless | silhouette | skiagram | skiagraph | solemnity | somber | somberness | sombrousness | sorrow | umbra | umbrage | umbrageousness | unhappiness | wearifulness | wearisomeness | woe See Also | ambiance | ambience | apprehension | apprehensiveness | atmosphere | bleakness | desolation | dread | melancholy | semidarkness Gloom In Webster's Dictionary \Gloom\ (gl[=oo]m), n. [AS. gl[=o]m twilight, from the
root of E. glow. See {Glow}, and cf. {Glum}, {Gloam}.]
1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the
gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. --Tennyson
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3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of
sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by
fits. --Burke.
4. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
Syn: Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness;
depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See
{Darkness}.
\Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gloomed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Glooming}.] 1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer. 2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. The black gibbet glooms beside the way. --Goldsmith. [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom. --Spenser. \Gloom\, v. t. 1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. --Walpole. A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. --Tennyson. 2. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy. --Tennison. What sorrows gloomed that parting day. --Goldsmith. |
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