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gloom

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gloom  (glm)
n.
1.
a. Partial or total darkness; dimness: switched on a table lamp to banish the gloom of a winter afternoon.
b. A partially or totally dark place, area, or location.
2.
a. An atmosphere of melancholy or depression: Gloom pervaded the office.
b. A state of melancholy or depression; despondency.
v. gloomed, gloom·ing, glooms
v.intr.
1. To be or become dark, shaded, or obscure.
2. To feel, appear, or act despondent, sad, or mournful.
v.tr.
1. To make dark, shaded, or obscure.
2. Archaic To make despondent; sadden.

[Probably from Middle English gloumen, to become dark, look glum.]

gloom
Noun
1. depression or melancholy: all doom and gloom
2. partial or total darkness [Middle English gloumben to look sullen]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.gloom - a state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to dispel the gloom"
semidarkness - partial darkness
2.gloom - a feeling of melancholy apprehension
apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread - fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
melancholy - a feeling of thoughtful sadness
3.gloom - an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office"
ambiance, ambience, atmosphere - a particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement"
cloud - a cause of worry or gloom or trouble; "the only cloud on the horizon was the possibility of dissent by the French"
bareness, bleakness, desolation, nakedness - a bleak and desolate atmosphere; "the nakedness of the landscape"

gloom
Translations
Spanish gloom [gluːm] npenumbra (= sadness); desaliento, melancolía
French gloom [gluːm] nobscurité f (= sadness); tristesse f, mélancolie f
German gloom [gluːm] nDüsterkeit f;
(sadness) → düstere or gedrückte Stimmung f

Italian gloom [gluːm] noscurità, buio (= sadness); tristezza, malinconia

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A sombre, yet beautiful and peaceful gloom here pervaded all things.
Last night within my chamber's gloom some vague light breath of Spring Came wandering and whispering, and bade my soul take wing.
Yet Dorothy felt a sort of joyous excitement in defying the storm, and while she held fast to the railing she peered around through the gloom and thought she saw the dim form of a man clinging to a mast not far away from her.
 
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