Gloom

Definition of Gloom

Pronunciation: glŌm

n.	1.
	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.
v. i.	1.	To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Glooming.]
	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.
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.

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