The Meaning of gloom

• (n.) Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
• (n.) A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
• (n.) Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
• (n.) In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
• (v. i.) To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
• (v. i.) To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.
• (v. t.) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
• (v. t.) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.

Synonyms

somberness , sombreness , gloominess , somberness , sombreness , gloominess , glumness

Homophones

glume

Rhymes

abloom , assume , backroom , ballroom , barroom , bathroom , bedroom , bloom , blum , blume , boardroom , boom , bridegroom , broom , broome , brume , classroom , cloakroom , consume , costume , courtroom , croom , crume , darkroom , doom , elbowroom , entomb , exhume , flume , fume , glume , groom , groome , grume , handloom , headroom , heirloom , hume , kaboom , khartoum , kume , legroom , legume , loom , lunchroom , mailroom , maktoum , mcbroom , neume , perfume , playroom , plume , presume , reassume , reaume , restroom , resume , rheaume , rheum , room , schoolroom , showroom , spoom , spume , stockroom , storeroom , sunroom , tomb , toolroom , vroom , washroom , whom , womb , workroom , zoom