Hypertext Webster Gateway: "gloom"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Gloom \Gloom\ (gl[=oo]m), n. [AS. gl[=o]m 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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Gloom \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Gloom \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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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


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