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gloom

/ɡlum/noun1 syllable

Gloom means: a feeling of melancholy apprehension.

Synonyms for gloom12

noun, as in a feeling of melancholy apprehension

gloominess, somberness, sombreness

noun, as in a state of partial or total darkness

somberness, sombreness

noun, as in an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

gloominess, glumness

also used for gloom

grieve, mourn, aggrieve, besorrow, condole, darken, engrieve, erme

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What does gloom mean?3

noun

1

a feeling of melancholy apprehension

2

a state of partial or total darkness“he struck a match to dispel the gloom”

3

an atmosphere of depression and melancholy“gloom pervaded the office”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with gloom?18

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Gloom in a sentence

  • She spake, and vanished in the gloom of night.carlosalberto
  • Those gloom and doom economists aren't worth their salt.Lumi_alt
  • When you were a child you feared the gloom.marco87
  • Intermittent flashes of lightning illuminated the dark gloom of the forest.darinmex
  • I hoped you could hurl some lumens into the gloom.halfb1t
  • His gloom was now compounded by the failing mark on his geometry test.aq_aria
  • It has been dubbed the summit of gloom.Cangarejo
  • His moods shift rapidly between depressed gloom and frenzied jubilation.megamanenm

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Forms of gloom

as a noun

plural
glooms