Gloom

Noun

 * 1) darkness, dimness or obscurity.
 * 2) *1898,, Chapter 4
 * Here was a surprise, and a sad one for me, for I perceived that I had slept away a day, and that the sun was setting for another night. And yet it mattered little, for night or daytime there was no light to help me in this horrible place; and though my eyes had grown accustomed to the gloom, I could make out nothing to show me where to work.
 * 1) a melancholy, depressing or despondent  atmosphere

Verb

 * 1)  To be dark or gloomy.
 * 2) *1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 189:
 * Around all the dark forest gloomed.
 * 1)  to look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.

Adjectives for Gloom
congregated; dark;  ascetic;  deepening shady; solemn; hopeless; malodorous; par rial; anxious; lingering; additional; thick funereal; desponding; murkier; dishwater moving; gathering; chilly; fixed; slumb' rous; melancholy; impenetrable; somber sacred; grateful; ceaseless; minister; sur rounding; forest; eternal; atmospheric; unromantic; perpetual; sepulchral; profound; pregnant; damp; warm; divine; convent; azure; woven; settled; sullen; dungeon; foreboding; sympathetic; twilight; wintry; intensified; lurid; coiled; starving; unavailing; heavy; persistent; dreary pervasive; darkling; glowing; unobtrusive dangerous conventional; glorious; coppery verdurous gorgeous;  adamantine;   arched;   natal cheerless; silent sable; oppressive; dank languid; prairie utter; ethereal; delicate sheer; blighting roseate; abnormal; rich curtained;  sibylline;  haunting;  stained; shadowed; Stygian.

Verbs for Gloom
assimilate—; cast upon—; detach from—; dispel—; envelop in—; exude—; harbor—; overcome—; overhang with—; overwhelm with—; pierce—; wrap in—; —assails; — deepens; —dwells on; —oppresses; —pervades; —settles on; —thickens.

Thesaurus
adumbrate, becloud, bedarken, bedim, begloom, black, black out, blacken, blackness, bleakness, block the light, blot out, blues, brood, brown, cast a shadow, cloud, cloud over, cloudiness, dark, dark shade, darken, darken over, darkle, darkness, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, dim, dim out, dimness, dismalness, doldrums, dolor, downheartedness, dreariness, dullness, dumps, dusk, eclipse, encloud, encompass with shadow, frown, gloam, gloominess, glower, gravity, grimace, grimness, grow dark, grow dim, knit the brow, look black, look sullen, low spirits, lower, lowering, make a lip, make a moue, melancholy, mere shadow, misery, mope, moroseness, murk, murkiness, obfuscate, obnubilate, obscure, obscurity, obumbrate, occult, occultate, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, penumbra, pout, sadness, scowl, shade, shadiness, shadow, shadowiness, shadows numberless, silhouette, skiagram, skiagraph, solemnity, somber, somberness, sombrousness, sorrow, umbra, umbrage, umbrageousness, unhappiness, wearifulness, wearisomeness, woe

Pronunciation




Noun

 * Dutch:
 * French: obscurité


 * Portuguese: trevas
 * Russian:, ,


 * French: morosité, noirceur, sombreur
 * Portuguese: trevas


 * Russian: