GLOOM

gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness

(noun) a feeling of melancholy apprehension

gloom, somberness, sombreness

(noun) a state of partial or total darkness; “he struck a match to dispel the gloom”

gloom, gloominess, glumness

(noun) an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; “gloom pervaded the office”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

gloom (usually uncountable, plural glooms)

Darkness, dimness or obscurity.

A melancholic, depressing or despondent atmosphere.

Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.

A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.

Verb

gloom (third-person singular simple present glooms, present participle glooming, simple past and past participle gloomed)

(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.

Source: Wiktionary

Gloom (gloom), n. Etym: [AS. glom twilight, from the root of E. glow. See Glow, and cf. Glum, Gloam.]

1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.

2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson .

3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. Burke.

4. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.

Syn.

– Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See Darkness.

Gloom, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glooming.]

1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. The black gibbet glooms beside the way. Goldsmith. [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom. Spenser.

Gloom, v. t.

1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. Walpole. A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson.

2. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy. Tennison. What sorrows gloomed that parting day. Goldsmith.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition