'Gloom' definitions:
Definition of 'gloom'
From: WordNet
noun
A state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to dispel the gloom" [syn: gloom, somberness, sombreness]
noun
noun
An atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office" [syn: gloom, gloominess, glumness]
Definition of 'Gloom'
From: GCIDE
- Gloom \Gloom\, v. t.
- 1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. [1913 Webster]
- A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. --Walpole. [1913 Webster]
- A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. [1913 Webster]
- Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy. --Tennison. [1913 Webster]
- What sorrows gloomed that parting day. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Gloom'
From: GCIDE
- Gloom \Gloom\ (gl[=oo]m), n. [AS. gl[=o]m twilight, from the root of E. glow. See Glow, and cf. Glum, Gloam.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. [1913 Webster]
- Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. --Tennyson . [1913 Webster]
- 3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. [1913 Webster]
- A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 4. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See Darkness. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Gloom'
From: GCIDE
- Gloom \Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glooming.]
- 1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. [1913 Webster]
- The black gibbet glooms beside the way. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
- [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gloom'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adumbrate,
- becloud,
- bedarken,
- bedim,
- begloom,
- black,
- black out,
- blacken,
- blackness,
- bleakness,
- block the light,
- blot out,
- blues,
- brood,
- brown,
- cast a shadow,
- cloud,
- cloud over,
- cloudiness,
- dark,
- dark shade,
- darken,
- darken over,
- darkle,
- darkness,
- dejection,
- depression,
- desolation,
- despair,
- despondency,
- dim,
- dim out,
- dimness,
- dismalness,
- doldrums,
- dolor,
- downheartedness,
- dreariness,
- dullness,
- dumps,
- dusk,
- eclipse,
- encloud,
- encompass with shadow,
- frown,
- gloam,
- gloominess,
- glower,
- gravity,
- grimace,
- grimness,
- grow dark,
- grow dim,
- knit the brow,
- look black,
- look sullen,
- low spirits,
- lower,
- lowering,
- make a lip,
- make a moue,
- melancholy,
- mere shadow,
- misery,
- mope,
- moroseness,
- murk,
- murkiness,
- obfuscate,
- obnubilate,
- obscure,
- obscurity,
- obumbrate,
- occult,
- occultate,
- overcast,
- overcloud,
- overshadow,
- penumbra,
- pout,
- sadness,
- scowl,
- shade,
- shadiness,
- shadow,
- shadowiness,
- shadows numberless,
- silhouette,
- skiagram,
- skiagraph,
- solemnity,
- somber,
- somberness,
- sombrousness,
- sorrow,
- umbra,
- umbrage,
- umbrageousness,
- unhappiness,
- wearifulness,
- wearisomeness,
- woe