Definitions for gloom

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Spelling: [gloom]

IPA: /glum/

Gloom is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in gloom (glmoo).

Definitions for gloom

noun

1. total or partial darkness; dimness.
2. a state of melancholy or depression; low spirits.
3. a despondent or depressed look or expression.

plural noun

1. the blues; melancholy (usually preceded by the).

verb (used with object)

1. to fill with gloom; make gloomy or sad; sadden.
2. to make dark or somber.

verb (used without object)

1. to appear or become dark, dim, or somber.
2. to look sad, dismal, or dejected; frown.

Origin of gloom

1300-50; Middle English gloumben, glomen to frown, perhaps representing Old English *glūmian (akin to early German gläumen to make turbid); see glum

Examples for gloom

To add to the gloom, several high-profile Ebola cases have occurred in health-care workers treating patients with the disease.

This increased his astonishment, and did not lessen the gloom on his face.

Its conditions are gloomier, and it consorts more easily with gloom.

But at that moment an inspiration came to lighten the gloom.

In the gloom the flash of missiles impacting in the distance heartened them.

Just a tiny little ray of sunshine had dispelled all the gloom for a minute.

He is rather drawn to figures in pain, to the primordial, and to gloom.

It is a charming spot, even in the gloom of a wintry afternoon.

Yet jollity and gloom are still at war in our censorious age.

They peered out into the gloom from Battery Park and could not make out her form.