Definition of Gloom

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Definition of Gloom

Gloom

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

A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.

Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.

In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.

To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.

To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.

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Gloom Quotations

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
Thomas Jefferson

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Kahlil Gibran

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Rabindranath Tagore

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S. Grant

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
Ezra Pound

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
Buffalo Bill

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.
Matthew Arnold

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
Gordon B. Hinckley

Gloom Translations

gloom in Spanish is oscuridad

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