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Definition of gloom:
- 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.
- Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
- To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.
- To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
- To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
- To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
Synonyms:
shadow, glumness, misery, mourning, mournfulness, murk, soberness, bitterness, moroseness, horror, melancholia, weariness, lugubriousness, graveness, distress, discouragement, apprehension, happy, funk, despair, pessimism, foreboding, dullness, sadness, feelings, grief, despondency, downheartedness, malaise, gravity, somberness, heavy-heartedness, oppression, melancholy, woe, doldrums, despondence, blues, happiness, optimism, gloominess, misgiving, sorrow, chagrin, dark, dysphoria, affliction, depression, sobriety, sullenness, dolefulness, anguish, vexation, gaiety, unhappiness, mope, sombreness, dejection, dumps, mortification.
Usage examples:
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After this a great gloom fell upon the hall, so that men could not see each other's faces and everyone began to call aloud till the company broke up in confusion.
- "Moon of Israel", H. Rider Haggard. -
Lancaster's voice came through the gloom.
- "Caribbee", Thomas Hoover. -
The gloom which surrounded the circle of light in which I sat weighed on my spirits.
- "Gossamer 1915", George A. Birmingham.