Definitions for gloom
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Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. gloom, somberness, sombreness(noun)

   a state of partial or total darkness

   "he struck a match to dispel the gloom"

2. gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness(noun)

   a feeling of melancholy apprehension

3. gloom, gloominess, glumness(noun)

   an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

   "gloom pervaded the office"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. gloom(Noun)

   darkness, dimness or obscurity.

2. gloom(Noun)

   a melancholy, depressing or despondent atmosphere

3. gloom(Verb)

   To be dark or gloomy.

4. gloom(Verb)

   to look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Gloom(noun)

   partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight

2. Gloom(noun)

   a shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove

3. Gloom(noun)

   cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness

4. Gloom(noun)

   in gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven

5. Gloom(verb)

   to shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer

6. Gloom(verb)

   to become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight

7. Gloom(verb)

   to render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken

8. Gloom(verb)

   to fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Gloom

   glōōm, n. partial darkness: cloudiness: heaviness of mind, sadness: hopelessness: sullenness.—v.i. to be sullen or dejected: to be cloudy or obscure.—v.t. to fill with gloom.—adv. Gloom′ily.—n. Gloom′iness.—p.adj. Gloom′ing (Shak.), shining obscurely.—n. twilight: gloaming.—adj. Gloom′y, dim or obscure: dimly lighted: sad, melancholy. [A.S. glóm, gloom; prov. Ger. glumm, gloomy.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gloom in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gloom in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of gloom in a Sentence

1. Herodotus:

   Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. -- The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service

2. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich:

   1. Steampunk socialization of personality is a carefully controlled animatronics of logic in the human psyche, in which a cyberpunk of another’s imagination is formed. 2. To understand yourself, you just need to put a small doll in the form of a clown on your hand so as not to go crazy, and on your second hand a toy sock, do not give them alternative personalities, but make them an extension of your soul to see yourself from the outside and listen to yourself. Your alternative personalities will help you understand yourself, but do not allow personalities to multiply by budding. 3. The same life every time in a new birth, the same dream, you either become a philosopher or find yourself insane, maybe we are ghosts locked in their time and everything repeats and we are holograms of memories of us, but in any case, you in a temporary trap where you need to learn one lesson: life without sins. Oblivion here is a dead loop of memory that gives a chance to rethink everything that was in your life, erasing memory as an anesthetic and antidepressant of the psyche, but oblivion prevents you from understanding a cruel joke about yourself. 4. The aphorism of philosophy is one of the many computer codes that turns into the algorithm of power over you in the subconscious. Starting to think in your own way, you disconnect from the network of global thinking and you are considered a defective crazy person whose logic algorithms whose name is deactivated are deactivated. 5. Better than money, only their lifelong dreams govern people. 6. Awareness of the name of his will and the interaction of the race of vision, a sincere world without selfishness. The reality of humanity will finally be included in the network and telephone communications of empathy. 7. The human world is a magnificent shadow theater, which demonstrates a truly brutal show. 8. Self-hypnosis stickers peel off from your brain over time. 9. The philosophy of good and light is an acupuncture of thinking, wellness acupuncture, the direction of the flow of worldview. 10. Silence makes you dumb, vulnerable and so brilliant. 11. Sleepy paralysis of laziness in the psyche of people is parasitized by fear. Whereas dreams are the levitation of the body in reality while the person is sleeping. 12. Life is like a children's dollhouse of a princess, where the whole machine form of zombies of life is visible in the palm of your hand, in this house and home and work, you are not asked for permission, you only have the inevitability and the schedule of the intended, vicious circle of the law of meanness, repeating deja vu dream samsara’s wheels like a hamster’s wheel is like a treadmill in the gym, you run to your goals, but you run on the spot. You hold your figure, that is, your body as a voodoo doll of self-deception. There is also a secret room where disputes with oneself do not cease, there are such rooms as reality, dreams, dreams. All life is a children's toy of higher powers, it is very similar to a hamster cage with pipes of illusions, it is a karmic cage of ironic humor about materialism. All this was created to understand a person, it is impossible to understand that until the end, because it will forever change depending on new and new accidents. 13. Any industry is a gas burner of angry motivation of the authorities. 14. Will is a shotgun as a very fantastic cosmo-blaster made of beautiful carved snow-white bones with an open jaw on the skull at the end. Weapons shooting energy of the spirit. 15. In this great crush of egoism, a lot of people die. 16. Reflective neurons are reflected from the neurons of other people. When approaching danger, it’s like glowing warning road signs of fear, in the pitch darkness of self-deception. All this is an empathy of fear, that very feeling when the feeling of true friendship, love, empathy in the claws of danger intensifies. 17. The pain of awareness, as if shot from a shotgun to the knee, you feel the infernal pain of insight, you feel the bloody taste of truth in your mouth. You can shout out all fear, but you will never be able to sober up from it to the end because fear is like saliva in your mouth. You are surrounded by a sound bomb, a lethal dose of the sound of laughter of the indifference of reality that will blow up the universe of mankind, you will only have a skeleton that will someday turn into a stone of eternal memory, flesh will grow flowers, and your spirit will turn into memoirs of planet earth. 18. The gloom of loneliness will give either holiness or madness. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

3. Maurice Maeterlinck:

   Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

4. Rikard Scoufias:

   Our view has not changed. We have a commitment to investing in Greece, it's not only doom and gloom. There are actually investors who are looking in Greece and our partnership with the Hellenic Republic has been very constructive.

5. Ehsan Sehgal:

   In film, drama and TV series, the actors and actresses only act upon the role which the writer writes. Expecting that from them, in real life, is a grave risk, even inviting gloom for own life.

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