gloom
To be dark or gloomyTo be dark or gloomy.
» A grey gloom fell over the village.
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5 senses(intransitive)To be dark or gloomy.
(intransitive)To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
(transitive)To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
(transitive)To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
Examples
18 sentencesA grey gloom fell over the village.
It has been dubbed the summit of gloom.
Those gloom and doom economists aren't worth their salt.
When you were a child you feared the gloom.
She spake, and vanished in the gloom of night.
Origin
From Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight, darkness”),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”).
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Forms
glooms, glooming, gloomed, gloomedSynonyms
21 synonymsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.