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gloom

GLOOM, n.

1. Obscurity; partial or total darkness; thick shade; as the gloom of a forest, or the gloom of midnight.

2. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow. We say, the mind is sunk into gloom; a gloom overspreads the mind.

3. Darkness of prospect or aspect.

4. Sullenness.

GLOOM, v.i. To shine obscurely or imperfectly.

1. To be cloudy, dark or obscure.

2. To be melancholy or dejected.

GLOOM, v.t. To obscure; to fill with gloom; to darken; to make dismal.




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GLOOM, n.

1. Obscurity; partial or total darkness; thick shade; as the gloom of a forest, or the gloom of midnight.

2. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow. We say, the mind is sunk into gloom; a gloom overspreads the mind.

3. Darkness of prospect or aspect.

4. Sullenness.

GLOOM, v.i. To shine obscurely or imperfectly.

1. To be cloudy, dark or obscure.

2. To be melancholy or dejected.

GLOOM, v.t. To obscure; to fill with gloom; to darken; to make dismal.


GLOOM, n. [Scot. gloum, gloom, a frown. In D. lommer a shade, and loom is slow, heavy, dull. In Sax. glomung is twilight.]

  1. Obscurity; partial or total darkness; thick shade; as, the gloom of a forest, or the gloom of midnight.
  2. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow. We say, the mind is sunk into gloom; a gloom overspreads the mind.
  3. Darkness of prospect or aspect.
  4. Sullenness.

GLOOM, v.i.

  1. To shine obscurely or imperfectly. Spenser.
  2. To be cloudy, dark or obscure.
  3. To be melancholy or dejected. Goldsmith.

GLOOM, v.t.

To obscure; to fill with gloom; to darken; to make dismal. Young.


Gloom
  1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
  2. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly] to glimmer.
  3. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

    A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. Walpole.

    A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson.

  4. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.

    Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson .

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

    The black gibbet glooms beside the way. Goldsmith.

    [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom. Spenser.

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

    Such a mood as that which lately gloomed
    Your fancy.
    Tennison.

    What sorrows gloomed that parting day. Goldsmith.

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

    A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. Burke.

  8. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.

    Syn. -- Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See Darkness.

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Gloom

GLOOM, noun

1. Obscurity; partial or total darkness; thick shade; as the gloom of a forest, or the gloom of midnight.

2. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow. We say, the mind is sunk into gloom; a gloom overspreads the mind.

3. Darkness of prospect or aspect.

4. Sullenness.

GLOOM, verb intransitive To shine obscurely or imperfectly.

1. To be cloudy, dark or obscure.

2. To be melancholy or dejected.

GLOOM, verb transitive To obscure; to fill with gloom; to darken; to make dismal.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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