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