gloom
noun
[ ɡluːm ]
• partial or total darkness.
• "he strained his eyes peering into the gloom"
Similar:
darkness,
semi-darkness,
dark,
gloominess,
dimness,
blackness,
murkiness,
murk,
shadows,
shade,
shadiness,
obscurity,
dusk,
twilight,
gloaming,
tenebrosity,
• a state of depression or despondency.
• "a year of economic gloom for the car industry"
Similar:
despondency,
depression,
dejection,
downheartedness,
dispiritedness,
heavy-heartedness,
melancholy,
melancholia,
unhappiness,
sadness,
glumness,
gloominess,
low spirits,
dolefulness,
misery,
sorrow,
sorrowfulness,
forlornness,
woefulness,
woe,
wretchedness,
lugubriousness,
moroseness,
mirthlessness,
cheerlessness,
despair,
pessimism,
hopelessness,
the slough of despond,
negativity,
Weltschmerz,
the blues,
the dumps,
the blahs,
mopery,
gloom
verb
• have a dark or sombre appearance.
• "the black gibbet glooms beside the way"
• be or look depressed or despondent.
• "Charles was always glooming about money"
Origin:
late Middle English (as a verb): of unknown origin.
