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n. Partial or total darkness; dimness: switched on a table lamp to banish the gloom of a winter afternoon.

n. A partially or totally dark place, area, or location.

n. An atmosphere of melancholy or depression: Gloom pervaded the office.

n. A state of melancholy or depression; despondency.

verb-intransitive. To be or become dark, shaded, or obscure.

verb-intransitive. To feel, appear, or act despondent, sad, or mournful.

v. To make dark, shaded, or obscure.

v. Archaic To make despondent; sadden.

n. darkness, dimness or obscurity.

n. a melancholy, depressing or despondent atmosphere

v. To be dark or gloomy.

v. to look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.

v. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

v. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.

n. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity.

n. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.

n. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.

n. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.

verb-intransitive. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

verb-intransitive. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.

v. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

v. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.

n. Dim, glimmering shade; deep twilight; cheerless obscurity; darkness: as, the gloom of a forest.

n. Hence — A dark place.

n. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; dejection, melancholy, sullenness, and the like, or an aspect indicative of such feelings.

n. A depressing or disheartening condition of affairs; a dismal aspect or prospect.

n. In gunpowder-manuf., the drying-oven.

To appear dimly; be seen in an imperfect or waning light; glimmer; be in darkness or obscurity.

To exhibit or produce a somber or melancholy feeling; appear sad, gloomy, or dismal; frown; lower.

To darken, or make dark, gloomy, or somber.

To fill with gloom or despondency; make gloomy or sad.

n. a state of partial or total darkness

n. a feeling of melancholy apprehension

n. an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

"Likewise, he wants to stay away from what he calls the "gloom," saying it's almost too easy to tell the story of Detroit's decline through moving images."

gloomed    glooming    glooms   

semidarkness    melancholy    apprehension    apprehensiveness    dread   

cheerlessness   

gloomed    glooming   

melancholy    obscurity    dimness    sadness    dullness    dejection    depression    darkness    heaviness    glimmer   

Bloom    Blum    Blume    Doom    Hume    Khartoum    abloom    assume    bloom    boom   

darkness    stillness    blackness    twilight    sadness    mist    sorrow    horror    confusion    shade