gloom /ɡluːm/verb 5noun 4forms 3 verb5 •To be dark or gloomy.Here, while the proud their long drawn pomps display, / There the black gibbet glooms beside the way. — 1770 •To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.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. — 1882 •To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.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, […] — 1859 •To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.A black yew gloom'd the stagnant air. — 1855 •To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer. noun4 •Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.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. — 2022 •A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.Although it's always crowded You still can find some room For broken-hearted lovers To cry there in their gloom. — 1956 •Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. — 1770 •A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture. formsgloomed · glooming · glooms
