Gloom

Definition of gloom:

To be cloudy or obscure; to be sadly or sullenly dejected.
To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
To make dark; deject or sadden.
To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.
To be or become cloudy or partially dark; present a dismal aspect.
To be sullen or dejected: to be cloudy or obscure.
To obscure; to make dismal.
To be sullen; to shine dimly.
an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; " gloom pervaded the office"
A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
A partial darkness; obscurity; melancholy; depression; sadness; sullenness.
Partial darkness: cloudiness: heaviness of mind, sadness: hopelessness: sullenness.
Darkness; obscurity; hence, melancholy; misfortune.
Obscurity; partial darkness; thick shadiness; dejection of mind; melancholy; sullenness; darkness of prospect or aspect.
Partial darkness; thick shade; obscurity; cloudiness or heaviness of the mind; melancholy; sullenness.

Usage examples for gloom

It is like coming once more into the sunshine after long walking through gloom and mist." The Story of Our Hymns by Ernest Edwin Ryden
In the gloom of the fast- falling twilight I did not at first recognise him; but when he turned round with a start at the sound of my approaching footsteps and withdrew his arm with a sudden movement from around his companion's waist, something in the motion and figure seemed familiar to me. Mr. Marx's Secret by E. Phillips Oppenheim
" I pacified Psyche and kissed her," I murmured, " and tempted her out of the gloom." Gossamer 1915 by George A. Birmingham
" Not long- if it's just a cold," answered Benis with some gloom. The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

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