GLOOM
\ɡlˈuːm], \ɡlˈuːm], \ɡ_l_ˈuː_m]\
Definitions of GLOOM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office"
By Princeton University
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an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
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Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
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In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
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To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
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To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.
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To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
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To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
By Oddity Software
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A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
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Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
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In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
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To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
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To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.
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To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
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To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
By Noah Webster.
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A partial darkness; obscurity; melancholy; depression; sadness; sullenness.
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To be or become cloudy or partially dark; present a dismal aspect.
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To make dark; deject or sadden.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Partial darkness: cloudiness: heaviness of mind, sadness: hopelessness: sullenness.
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To be sullen or dejected: to be cloudy or obscure.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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Obscurity; partial darkness; thick shadiness; dejection of mind; melancholy; sullenness; darkness of prospect or aspect.
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To obscure; to make dismal.
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To be cloudy or obscure; to be sadly or sullenly dejected.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Partial darkness; thick shade; obscurity; cloudiness or heaviness of the mind; melancholy; sullenness.
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To be sullen; to shine dimly.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] Obscurity; thick shade; partial or total darkness;—cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; sadness; moroseness; sullenness.
