1. gloom - Noun
2. gloom - Verb
Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
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.
To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.
To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. Ulysses S. Grant
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Joseph Addison
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom. Margaret Drabble
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world. Arthur Conan Doyle
After the meal, one has to be still and shut the eyes for a while in the gloom. Scanian Proverb
From the cradle to the tomb, Not all gladness, not all gloom. Dutch Proverb