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Definition of Gloom

1. Noun. A state of partial or total darkness. "He struck a match to dispel the gloom"

2. Noun. A feeling of melancholy apprehension.

3. Noun. An atmosphere of depression and melancholy. "Gloom pervaded the office"

Definition of Gloom

1. n. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.

2. v. i. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

3. v. t. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

Definition of Gloom

1. Noun. darkness, dimness or obscurity. ¹

2. Noun. a melancholy, depressing or despondent atmosphere ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To be dark or gloomy. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) to look or feel sad, sullen or despondent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gloom

1. to become dark [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: dark

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gloom

glomus body glomus caroticum glomus choroideum glomus coccygeum glomus intravagale glomus jugulare glomus jugulare tumour glomus pulmonale glomus tumour glomus tympanicum

glond glonoin glonoine glonoins glood gloom (current term) gloom-and-doomer gloom-and-doomers gloomed gloomful

gloomier gloomiest gloomily gloominess gloominesses glooming gloomings gloomish gloomless glooms

Literary usage of Gloom

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"WHEN THE gloom IS ON THE GLEN WHEN the moonlight's on the mountain And the gloom is on the glen, At the cross beside the fountain There is one will meet ..."

2. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"WHEN THE gloom IS ON THE GLEN. WHEN the moonlight 's on the mountain And the gloom is on the glen, At the eross beside the fountain There is one will mcet ..."

3. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"WHEN THE gloom IS ON THE GLEN. WHEN the moonlight's on the mountain And the gloom is on the glen, At the cross beside the fountain There is one will meet ..."

4. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain by William Hickling Prescott (1883)
"For the duke strove, by brilliant entertainments and festivities, to amuse the nobles and dissipate the gloom of the capital.50 • In all this Alva had a ..."

5. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"Gone the cry of " Forward, Forward," lost within a growing gloom; Lost, or only heard in silence from the silence of a tomb.' The course of human affairs in ..."

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