gloom

Speech parts

1. gloom - Noun

2. gloom - Verb

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

depression darkness obscurity melancholy sadness dejection gloominess somberness dimness glumness sombreness eve twilight downer penumbra
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Antonyms

aurora sol saturnalia faro gaslight rhapsody
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Hypernyms

atmosphere melancholy apprehension dread ambience apprehensiveness

Hyponyms

cloud desolation nakedness bareness bleakness

Phrases with the word

cast a gloom upon doom-and-gloom merchant gloom mongering gloom-monger cast a gloom on light and gloom

Derivatives

gloomed glooming

Examples

The 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

Close letter words and terms

glonoin glonoine glook gloom and doom gloom mongering gloom-and-doomer