glooms

Noun

gloom (usually uncountable, plural glooms)

1. (usually) Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.
   • the gloom of a forest, or of midnight
2. (usually) A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
   • A sudden little river crossed my path / As unexpected as a serpent comes. / No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms— / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof—to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.1855, Robert Browning, “‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.’”, in Men and Women […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza 19, page 142

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   An atmosphere of gloom descended on the assembled crowd.

3. (usually) Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
   • A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.1770, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
4. (usually) A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.

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