Thesaurus: gloom

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1. n. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
2. n. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
3. n. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
4. n. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
5. v. i. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
6. v. i. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.
7. v. t. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
8. v. t. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
9. n. a state of partial or total darkness
10. n. a feeling of melancholy apprehension
11. n. an atmosphere of depression and melancholy
12. 1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight. 2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson . 3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. Burke. 4. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven. Syn. -- Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See Darkness. 1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer. 2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. The black gibbet glooms beside the way. Goldsmith. [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom. Spenser. 1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. Walpole. A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson. 2. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy. Tennison. What sorrows gloomed that parting day. Goldsmith.