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

1. gloom, somberness, sombrenessnoun

   a state of partial or total darkness

   "he struck a match to dispel the gloom"

2. gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombrenessnoun

   a feeling of melancholy apprehension

3. gloom, gloominess, glumnessnoun

   an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

   "gloom pervaded the office"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. gloomnoun

   darkness, dimness or obscurity.

2. gloomnoun

   a melancholy, depressing or despondent atmosphere

3. gloomverb

   To be dark or gloomy.

4. gloomverb

   to look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.

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

1. Gloomnoun

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

2. Gloomnoun

   a shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove

3. Gloomnoun

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

4. Gloomnoun

   in gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven

5. Gloomverb

   to shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer

6. Gloomverb

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

7. Gloomverb

   to render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken

8. Gloomverb

   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.]

Matched Categories

1. • Apprehension
   • Atmosphere
   • Melancholy
   • Semidarkness

How to pronounce gloom?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

How to say gloom in sign language?

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. Remy Green:

   The Postal Service has long promised that' [ n ] either snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds, the Court rightly added the obvious footnote : fixing an election and cost-cutting can not cut it as an exception to that promise.

2. Kahlil Gibran:

   The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

3. Florida GOP strategist Rick Wilson:

   I do think he's going to try to reach the American people in a way that tells a story of a very different, optimistic, prospective vision for America, that isn't just the doom and gloom that we tend to get an awful lot of the time on our side.

4. 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.

5. 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

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