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gloom

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gloom—To be dark or gloomy.

/ɡluːm/, /ɡlum/

Origin

From Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight, darkness”), from Proto-West Germanic *glōm, from Proto-Germanic *glōmaz (“gleam, shimmer, sheen”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). The English word is cognate with Norwegian glom (“transparent membrane”), Scots gloam (“twilight; faint light; dull gleam”).

noun

uncountable, usuallyDarkness, dimness, or obscurity.
“the gloom of a forest, or of midnight”
“Here was a surprise, and a sad one for me, for I perceived that I had slept away a day, and that the sun was setting for another night. And yet it mattered little, for night or daytime there was no li”
“On December 13, Maritime-liveried 66051 powers out of the early morning gloom with three repatriated Class 66s, on the 0809 Dollands Moor Sidings-Scunthorpe Redbourne Siding.”
uncountable, usuallyA depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
“A sudden little river crossed my path / As unexpected as a serpent comes. / No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms— / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof—to”
“Although it's always crowded You still can find some room For broken-hearted lovers To cry there in their gloom.”
uncountable, usuallyCloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
“A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.”
uncountable, usuallyA drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.

verb

intransitiveTo be dark or gloomy.
“Here, while the proud their long drawn pomps diſplay, / There the black gibbet glooms beſide the way.”
“Around all the dark forest gloomed.”
intransitiveTo look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
“Her face gathers, furrows, glooms; arching eyebrows wrinkle into horizontals, and a tinge of bitterness unsmooths the cheek and robs the lip of sweetened grace. She is evidently perturbed.”
“Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.”
“"Is Maggie then astonishing too?"—and he gloomed out of his window.”
transitiveTo render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
“A black yew gloom'd the stagnant air.”
transitiveTo fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
“For see you not, dear love, / Such a mood as that, which lately gloom'd / Your fancy when you saw me following you, / Must make me fear still more you are not mine, […]”
“Good Heaven! What ſorrows gloom'd that parting day, / That called them from their native walks away; […]”
To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.