Definition of gloom

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

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Depress :: Depress (v. t.) To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed..
Tenebricose :: Tenebricose (a.) Tenebrous; dark; gloomy.
Overgloom :: Overgloom (v. t.) To spread gloom over; to make gloomy; to overshadow.
Brighten :: Brighten (v. i.) To grow bright, or more bright; to become less dark or gloomy; to clear up; to become bright or cheerful..
Sad :: Sad (supperl.) Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.
Gloom :: Gloom (v. t.) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
Darkling :: Darkling (p. pr. & a.) Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing.
Sombre :: Sombre (a.) Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house..
Mirk :: Mirk (n.) Darkness; gloom; murk.
Gloom :: Gloom (v. i.) To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
Blackly :: Blackly (adv.) In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously..
Acherontic :: Acherontic (a.) Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund..
Moody :: Moody (superl.) Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy..
Brighten :: Brighten (a.) To improve or relieve by dispelling gloom or removing that which obscures and darkens; to shed light upon; to make cheerful; as, to brighten one's prospects..
Drear :: Drear (a.) Dismal; gloomy with solitude.
Infestive :: Infestive (a.) Having no mirth; not festive or merry; dull; cheerless; gloomy; forlorn.
Engloom :: Engloom (v. t.) To make gloomy.
Melancholize :: Melancholize (v. i.) To become gloomy or dejected in mind.
Erebus :: Erebus (n.) A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's Paradise Lost, Book II., line 883..
Drearily :: Drearily (adv.) Gloomily; dismally.
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