Definitions for glooms

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Spelling: [gloomz]

IPA: /glumz/

Glooms is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in glooms (glmoos).

Definitions for glooms

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 glooms

First recorded in 1735-45; See origin at gloom, -s³

Examples for glooms

He's got the glooms, too; he says he always gets 'em in foggy weather at sea.

The fancies of the morning compensate for the glooms of evening.

I love Christ's glooms better than the world's worm-eaten joys.

In the glooms and lights outside Shima was standing, and two messengers.

The glooms of the gigantic forest, spreading back to unexplored and unimagined depth, added to the sublimity of the scene.

Physically and intellectually he looms and glooms and towers.

I cannot get through the mists and glooms to press your hand and tell you how dear I hold you.

Of course it is part of her character that her destiny should point to the glooms.

Between the islands he passes; they are full of chilly gleams and glooms.

A flash of joy came into Yankelé's own face, dissipating his glooms.