Gloom

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Partial or total darkness; dimness.
  • noun. A partially or totally dark place, area, or location.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An atmosphere of melancholy or depression.
  • noun. A state of melancholy or depression; despondency.
  • intransitive verb. To be or become dark, shaded, or obscure.
  • intransitive verb. To feel, appear, or act despondent, sad, or mournful.
  • intransitive verb. To make dark, shaded, or obscure.
  • intransitive verb. To make despondent; sadden.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To appear dimly; be seen in an imperfect or waning light; glimmer; be in darkness or obscurity.
  • To exhibit or produce a somber or melancholy feeling; appear sad, gloomy, or dismal; frown; lower.
  • To darken, or make dark, gloomy, or somber.
  • To fill with gloom or despondency; make gloomy or sad.
  • noun. Dim, glimmering shade; deep twilight; cheerless obscurity; darkness: as, the gloom of a forest.
  • noun. Hence — A dark place.
  • noun. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; dejection, melancholy, sullenness, and the like, or an aspect indicative of such feelings.
  • noun. A depressing or disheartening condition of affairs; a dismal aspect or prospect.
  • noun. In gunpowder-manuf., the drying-oven.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
  • intransitive verb. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.
  • noun. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity.
  • noun. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
  • noun. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
  • noun. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
  • transitive verb. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
  • transitive verb. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. darkness, dimness or obscurity.
  • noun. a melancholy, depressing or despondent atmosphere
  • verb. To be dark or gloomy.
  • verb. to look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
  • verb. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
  • verb. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a state of partial or total darkness
  • noun. a feeling of melancholy apprehension
  • noun. an atmosphere of depression and melancholy
  • Word Usage
    "Likewise, he wants to stay away from what he calls the "gloom," saying it's almost too easy to tell the story of Detroit's decline through moving images."
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    gloomed  glooming  
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    Bloom  Blum  Blume  Doom  Hume  
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