gloom

gloom
    n 1: a state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to
         dispel the gloom" [syn: {gloom}, {somberness},
         {sombreness}]
    2: a feeling of melancholy apprehension [syn: {gloom},
       {gloominess}, {somberness}, {sombreness}]
    3: an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded
       the office" [syn: {gloom}, {gloominess}, {glumness}]
    

Gloom \Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gloomed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Glooming}.]
   1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
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   2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or
      sad; to come to the evening twilight.
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            The black gibbet glooms beside the way. --Goldsmith.
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            [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.
                                                  --Spenser.
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Gloom \Gloom\, v. t.
   1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
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            A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. --Walpole.
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            A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. --Tennyson.
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   2. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
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            Such a mood as that which lately gloomed
            Your fancy.                           --Tennison.
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            What sorrows gloomed that parting day. --Goldsmith.
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Gloom \Gloom\ (gl[=oo]m), n. [AS. gl[=o]m twilight, from the
   root of E. glow. See {Glow}, and cf. {Glum}, {Gloam}.]
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   1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the
      gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
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   2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
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            Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. --Tennyson
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   3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of
      sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
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            A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by
            fits.                                 --Burke.
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   4. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
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   Syn: Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness;
        depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See
        {Darkness}.
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102 Moby Thesaurus words for "gloom":
      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