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noun

Gloom n.

1.

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

2.

A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. "Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks."

3.

Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. "A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits."

4.

In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.

Synonyms: Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See Darkness.

verb

Gloom v. t.

1.

To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. "A bow window... gloomed with limes." "A black yew gloomed the stagnant air."

2.

To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. "Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy." "What sorrows gloomed that parting day."

Gloom v. i. (past & past part. gloomed; pres. part. 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." "(This weary day)... at last I see it gloom."

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"Gloom" Quotes from Famous Books

... altered from what Lady O'Gara remembered it, when Mrs. Veldon lived there. Mrs. Veldon had been so piteously sure than any washing or whitewashing would kill her with rheumatism that she had been left to her murky gloom. Now, with a few gaily coloured pictures of the Saints and Irish patriots on the walls, the dresser filled with bright crockery, including a whole shelf of lustre jugs, the pots and pans set out to advantage, ...

— Love of Brothers • Katharine Tynan

... 14, 1865) seems to have been a pleasant one throughout the whole land—the moral atmosphere pleasant, too—the long storm, so dark, so fratricidal, full of blood and doubt and gloom, over and ended at last by the sunrise of such an absolute National victory, and utter breaking down of secessionism—we almost doubted our senses! Lee had capitulated beneath the apple tree at ...

— Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday • Various

... Joseph returned from his long and tiresome visit of inspection. But so far from suffering fatigue, he sprang from his horse with a light bound, and his countenance was as free from gloom as it had been before the arrival of the ...

— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach

... tall pines and spruce threw their shadows over the fortification. The roar of the cannon, the sighing of the shot, the groans of the wounded, the dark shades of approaching evening, all conspired to render the scene one of intense gloom. They longed for the approaching night to close around them in order that they might bury the dead, and flee to ...

— Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) • Various

... the miracle. It was wrought on the last day of December, in the laboratory of the hospital, high above the gloom and squalor of the city. The miracle occurred within a brilliant little circle of light, and I saw it with my eye glued to a microscope. It passed off swiftly and quietly, and though I expected it, I was filled with ...

— The Blue Germ • Martin Swayne

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