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gloom
[ gloom ]
noun
- total or partial darkness; dimness.
Synonyms: obscurity, shadow, shade
Antonyms: brightness
- a state of melancholy or depression; low spirits.
Synonyms: sadness, despondency, dejection
Antonyms: cheerful
- a despondent or depressed look or expression.
verb (used without object)
- to appear or become dark, dim, or somber.
- to look sad, dismal, or dejected; frown.
verb (used with object)
- to fill with gloom; make gloomy or sad; sadden.
- to make dark or somber.
gloom
/ ɡluːm /
noun
- partial or total darkness
- a state of depression or melancholy
- an appearance or expression of despondency or melancholy
- poetic.a dim or dark place
verb
- intr to look sullen or depressed
- to make or become dark or gloomy
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Derived Forms
- ˈgloomfully, adverb
- ˈgloomful, adjective
- ˈgloomless, adjective
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Other Words From
- gloomful adjective
- gloomful·ly adverb
- gloomless adjective
- outgloom verb (used with object)
- under·gloom noun
- un·gloom verb (used with object)
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gloom1
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Example Sentences
They peered out into the gloom from Battery Park and could not make out her form.
He is rather drawn to figures in pain, to the primordial, and to gloom.
In the gloom the flash of missiles impacting in the distance heartened them.
To add to the gloom, several high-profile Ebola cases have occurred in health-care workers treating patients with the disease.
Hockney released the landscape from eternal gloom and flooded it with light.
As his eye became accustomed to the gloom, David Arden saw traces of gilding on the walls.
She saw his back for an instant against the pale gloom of the garden, in which vapour was curling.
He spoke Urdu exceedingly well, and it was difficult in the gloom to recognize him as a European.
Once more these huge explosions unloading their cargoes of midnight on to the evening gloom.
He may be considered as one of the learned few whose genius dissipated the gloom of the 8th century.
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