Gloom

/ɡluːm/ · noun

Meaning

Darkness, dimness, or obscurity..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

the gloom of a forest, or of midnight

Here was a surprise, and a sad one for me, for I perceived that I had slept away a day, and that the sun was setting for another night. And yet it mattered little, for night or daytime there was no light to help me in this horrible place; and though my eyes had grown accustomed to the gloom, I could make out nothing to show me where to work.

On December 13, Maritime-liveried 66051 powers out of the early morning gloom with three repatriated Class 66s, on the 0809 Dollands Moor Sidings-Scunthorpe Redbourne Siding.

A sudden little river crossed my path / As unexpected as a serpent comes. / No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms— / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof—to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.

Although it's always crowded You still can find some room For broken-hearted lovers To cry there in their gloom.

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.

Around all the dark forest gloomed.

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• glooms
• glooming
• gloomed

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