1 [U,sing.] a feeling of being sad and without hope:
The gloom deepened as the election results came in. * He remained sunk in gloom for several days. * An air of gloom and despondency settled over the household.
2 [U] (literary) almost total darkness:
We watched the boats come back in the gathering gloom. * Caroline peered into the gloom of the hallway.
IDIOMS see DOOMn., PILEv.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for gloom is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is gloom a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, gloom is tagged as noun.
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