Gloom

Quick meaning: Gloom is a noun meaning Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.

Meaning

Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.

More Meanings

1. A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
2. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
3. A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.
4. (intransitive) To be dark or gloomy.
5. (intransitive) To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
6. (transitive) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
7. (transitive) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.

Example Sentences

Around all the dark forest gloomed.

the gloom of a forest, or of midnight

A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.

Here, while the proud their long drawn pomps diſplay, / There the black gibbet glooms beſide the way.

Word Forms

• glooms
• glooming
• gloomed

Synonyms for gloom

Depending on context, synonyms include grieve, mourn, aggrieve, besorrow, condole, darken.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sombreness, gloominess, somberness, glumness, sombre, obscurity.

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