What does sloom mean?
Sloom means A gentle sleep; slumber..
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/sluːm/ · noun
A gentle sleep; slumber..
He lay slooming half-asleep, half-awake, thinking about Tuesday afternoon.
The squire sloomed and slept in his chair; and finally, after a cup of tea, went to bed.
To his castle’s portal, / At the morning gloaming, / Bore they all the mortal / From the battle’s foaming, / Of the white bannered warrior knight, / Cold in his armor slooming!
Then the doctor was slooming and nodding, and waking up and saying a word or two, and relapsing again into semi-unconsciousness.
The afternoon sun painted amber patterns on the Turkey red hearthrug: the only splash of colour in the dun room. Potter sloomed in the arms of the chair.
He adds, that one hundred bolls, or fifty quarters of wheat may be thrashed in a day of eight hours, unless the grain has been sloomed or mildewed; […]
[…] no other spot over their whole pastured offered as much verdure at this time as these seemingly sloomed places.
It must be explained, however, that in the latter case the “slooming” of the crop had an injurious effect on its yield; […]
Use sloom when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sloom means A gentle sleep; slumber..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He lay slooming half-asleep, half-awake, thinking about Tuesday afternoon.
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