gloom
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: glooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: glooms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: glooming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gloomed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gloomed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: the gloom of a forest, or of midnight
Here was a surprise, and a sad one for me, for I perceived that I had slept away a day, and that the sun was setting for another night. And yet it mattered little, for night or daytime there was no light to help me in this horrible place; and though my eyes had grown accustomed to the gloom, I could make out nothing to show me where to work.
On December 13, Maritime-liveried 66051 powers out of the early morning gloom with three repatriated Class 66s, on the 0809 Dollands Moor Sidings-Scunthorpe Redbourne Siding.
gloss: A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: A sudden little river crossed my path / As unexpected as a serpent comes. / No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms— / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof—to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.
Although it's always crowded
You still can find some room
For broken-hearted lovers
To cry there in their gloom.
gloss: Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.
gloss: A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: To be dark or gloomy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Here, while the proud their long drawn pomps diſplay, / There the black gibbet glooms beſide the way.
Around all the dark forest gloomed.
gloss: To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Her face gathers, furrows, glooms; arching eyebrows wrinkle into horizontals, and a tinge of bitterness unsmooths the cheek and robs the lip of sweetened grace. She is evidently perturbed.
Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.
"Is Maggie then astonishing too?"—and he gloomed out of his window.
He gloomed for some moments above the round-topped table[.]
gloss: To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A black yew gloom'd the stagnant air.
gloss: To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For see you not, dear love, / Such a mood as that, which lately gloom'd / Your fancy when you saw me following you, / Must make me fear still more you are not mine, […]
Good Heaven! What ſorrows gloom'd that parting day, / That called them from their native walks away; […]
gloss: To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
pos: verb
Related words: gloam
Derived words: begloom
doom and gloom
engloom
gloomcore
gloomful
gloomies
gloomily
gloomish
gloomleader
gloomless
gloomsome
gloomster
gloomth
gloomward
gloomy
June gloom
outgloom
overgloom
semigloom
undergloom
ungloomed
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