Found 3 items, similar to Gloom.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: gloom
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: gloom
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Gloom
Gloom
\Gloom\ (gl[=oo]m), n. [AS. gl[=o]m twilight, from the
root of E. glow. See
Glow, and cf.
Glum,
Gloam.]
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1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the
gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
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2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
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Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. --Tennyson
.
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3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of
sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
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A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by
fits. --Burke.
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4. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
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Syn: Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness;
depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See
Darkness.
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Gloom
\Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Gloomed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Glooming.]
1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
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2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or
sad; to come to the evening twilight.
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The black gibbet glooms beside the way. --Goldsmith.
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[This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.
--Spenser.
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Gloom
\Gloom\, v. t.
1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
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A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. --Walpole.
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A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. --Tennyson.
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2. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
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Such a mood as that which lately gloomed
Your fancy. --Tennison.
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What sorrows gloomed that parting day. --Goldsmith.
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