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Gloom
Gloom
(gloōm)
, Noun.
1.
Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity;
as, the
. gloom
of a forest, or of midnight2.
A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
Before a
gloom
of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson .
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
,Verb.
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
,Verb.
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
Your fancy.
gloomed
Your fancy.
Tennison.
What sorrows
gloomed
that parting day. Goldsmith.
Webster 1828 Edition
Gloom
GLOOM
,Noun.
1.
Obscurity; partial or total darkness; thick shade; as the gloom of a forest, or the gloom of midnight.2.
Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow. We say, the mind is sunk into gloom; a gloom overspreads the mind.3.
Darkness of prospect or aspect.4.
Sullenness.GLOOM
,Verb.
I.
1.
To be cloudy, dark or obscure.2.
To be melancholy or dejected.GLOOM
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
gloom
gloom
English
Noun
gloom (uncountable)
- Darkness, dimness or obscurity.
- the gloom of a forest, or of midnight
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- 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.
- A melancholy, depressing or despondent atmosphere.
- Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
- Burke
- A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.
- Burke
- A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
darkness, dimness or obscurity
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a melancholy, depressing or despondent atmosphere
cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness
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Verb
gloom (third-person singular simple present glooms, present participle glooming, simple past and past participle gloomed)
- (intransitive) To be dark or gloomy.
- Goldsmith
- The black gibbet glooms beside the way.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 189:
- Around all the dark forest gloomed.
- Goldsmith
- (intransitive) to look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
- 1882, W. Marshall, Strange Chapman (volume 2, page 170)
- Her face gathers, furrows, glooms; arching eyebrows wrinkle into horizontals, and a tinge of bitterness unsmooths the cheek and robs the lip of sweetened grace. She is evidently perturbed.
- D. H. Lawrence
- Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.
- 1882, W. Marshall, Strange Chapman (volume 2, page 170)
- (transitive) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
- Walpole
- A bow window […] gloomed with limes.
- Tennyson
- A black yew gloomed the stagnant air.
- Walpole
- (transitive) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
- Tennyson
- Such a mood as that which lately gloomed your fancy.
- Goldsmith
- What sorrows gloomed that parting day.
- Tennyson
- To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
Quotations
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:gloom.