Gloom can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| gloom - To be dark or gloomy. | ||
| gloom - To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent. | ||
| gloom - To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. | ||
| gloom - To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. | ||
Noun |
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| gloom - a feeling of melancholy apprehension | ||
| gloom - a state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to dispel the gloom" | ||
| gloom - an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office" |
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| 1. | noun | He struck a match to dispel the gloom. | |
| 2. | noun | Gloom pervaded the office. | |
| 3. | noun | Those gloom and doom economists aren't worth their salt. | |
| 4. | noun | When you were a child you feared the gloom. | |
| 5. | noun | Intermittent flashes of lightning illuminated the dark gloom of the forest. | |
| 6. | noun | I hoped you could hurl some lumens into the gloom. | |
| 7. | noun | His gloom was now compounded by the failing mark on his geometry test. | |
| 8. | noun | From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest. | |
| 9. | noun | Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. | |
| 10. | noun | My jaws have returned to their usual English expression of subdued agony and intense gloom. | |
| 11. | noun | The recent sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville has cast a gloom over the county. | |
| 12. | noun | The dining-room which opened out of the hall was a place of shadow and gloom. It was a long chamber with a step separating the daïs where the family sat from the lower portion reserved for their dependents. At one end a minstrel’s gallery overlooked it. | |
| 13. | noun | The dark panelling glowed like bronze in the golden rays, and it was hard to realise that this was indeed the chamber which had struck such a gloom into our souls upon the evening before. | |
| 14. | noun | What it all means I cannot guess, but there is some secret business going on in this house of gloom which sooner or later we shall get to the bottom of. | |
| 15. | noun | She spake, and vanished in the gloom of night. |
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| He struck a match to dispel the gloom. |
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| Gloom pervaded the office. |
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| Those gloom and doom economists aren't worth their salt. | |
| When you were a child you feared the gloom. | |
| Intermittent flashes of lightning illuminated the dark gloom of the forest. | |
| I hoped you could hurl some lumens into the gloom. | |
| His gloom was now compounded by the failing mark on his geometry test. | |
| From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest. | |
| Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. | |
| My jaws have returned to their usual English expression of subdued agony and intense gloom. | |
| The recent sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville has cast a gloom over the county. | |
| The dining-room which opened out of the hall was a place of shadow and gloom. It was a long chamber with a step separating the daïs where the family sat from the lower portion reserved for their dependents. At one end a minstrel’s gallery overlooked it. | |
| The dark panelling glowed like bronze in the golden rays, and it was hard to realise that this was indeed the chamber which had struck such a gloom into our souls upon the evening before. | |
| What it all means I cannot guess, but there is some secret business going on in this house of gloom which sooner or later we shall get to the bottom of. | |
| She spake, and vanished in the gloom of night. | |