Gloom — Defs

01 n. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.

1.
Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
2.
A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
“Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks.” — Tennyson .
3.
Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
“A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.” — Burke.
4.
In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.

02 v. i. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

imp. & p. p. Gloomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glooming

1.
To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
2.
To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.
“The black gibbet glooms beside the way.” — Goldsmith.

“[This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.” — Spenser.

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

1.
To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
“A bow window . . . gloomed with limes.” — Walpole.

“A black yew gloomed the stagnant air.” — Tennyson.
2.
To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
“Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy.” — Tennison.

“What sorrows gloomed that parting day.” — Goldsmith.