gloom

Meanings

Noun

• Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.
• A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
• Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
• A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.

Verb

• To be dark or gloomy.
• To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
• To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
• To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
• To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

Origin

• From Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm, from Proto-West Germanic *glōm, from Proto-Germanic *glōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley-. The English word is cognate with Norwegian glom, Scots gloam.