Gloom
noun
A state of being gloomy, where there is darkness or sadness.
There was a deep gloom over the household after the loss of their beloved pet.
Often appears as...
- spread gloom
- deep gloom
noun
Partial or total darkness.
His eyes slowly adjusted to the gloom of the dimly lit room.
Often appears as...
- in the gloom
- gloom of night
verb
To look or feel sad, worried, or angry.
Don't gloom — things will get better soon.
Often appears as...
- gloom at the news
- gloom about his future
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To fill with gloom; make gloomy or sad.
The grey skies gloomed the city.
Often appears as...
- gloom the sky
- gloom the room
Usage tips
Poetic
noun
A state of being gloomy, where there is darkness or sadness.
There was a deep gloom over the household after the loss of their beloved pet.
Often appears as...
- spread gloom
- deep gloom
noun
Partial or total darkness.
His eyes slowly adjusted to the gloom of the dimly lit room.
Often appears as...
- in the gloom
- gloom of night
verb
To look or feel sad, worried, or angry.
Don't gloom — things will get better soon.
Often appears as...
- gloom at the news
- gloom about his future
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To fill with gloom; make gloomy or sad.
The grey skies gloomed the city.
Often appears as...
- gloom the sky
- gloom the room
Usage tips
Poetic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Weight
Reflects deep sadness or a heavy atmosphere, often used in literature or storytelling.
The room was filled with gloom after the tragic news.
Pro Tip 2/2Descriptive Imagery
Perfect for describing scenes that evoke a sense of despair or melancholy.
The abandoned house was shrouded in gloom.
Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Weight
Reflects deep sadness or a heavy atmosphere, often used in literature or storytelling.
The room was filled with gloom after the tragic news.
Pro Tip 2/2Descriptive Imagery
Perfect for describing scenes that evoke a sense of despair or melancholy.
The abandoned house was shrouded in gloom.
Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Weight
Reflects deep sadness or a heavy atmosphere, often used in literature or storytelling.
The room was filled with gloom after the tragic news.
Pro Tip 2/2Descriptive Imagery
Perfect for describing scenes that evoke a sense of despair or melancholy.
The abandoned house was shrouded in gloom.
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Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
Lions will be moving in series the war talk that's exactly where their gloom has killed the water yesterday Chella pan is just next to the drainage and because it's sort of downslope those areas are invariably where the muddy waters will be formed into more vegetation you might not see water in the river system but it is deep sort of
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We need to green the...
gloom about climate uh but then there are a lot of good news in a way that go almost unnoticed uh give us maybe a couple of examples of of of those early signals of change or those good news and why do you think they're important and how to think about that well first thing that says don't spend too much time reading all those gloomy
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The Eco-Creators Helping...
who frankly don’t have time to get stuck in the cycles of doom and gloom. The need for climate optimism has never been more urgent. If we limit our vision of the future to one filled with oil rigs, smokestacks and suffering, we limit our capacity and shirk our duty to change the course of humanity for the better.
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Neil Pasricha: The 3 A's...
when you will be tossed in the well, too, with twists in your stomach and with holes in your heart, and when that bad news washes over you, and when that pain sponges and soaks in, I just really hope you feel like you've always got two choices. One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever,
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The 3 A's of awesome -...
gloom and doom forever or two you can grieve and then face the future with newly sober eyes having a great attitude is about choosing option number two and choosing no matter how difficult it is no matter what pain hits
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Why are these 32 symbols...
a shadowy opening in a limestone cliff that draws you in. As you pass through the portal between light and dark, you enter a subterranean world -- a place of perpetual gloom, of earthy smells, of hushed silence.
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How to recover from...
show that burnout and depression are widespread amongst activists. Years ago, I myself was burned out. In a world of endless ways forward, I felt at my final stop. So what melts fear or dullness or gloom?
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John Wesley Powell: From...
could be seen at night only during the few hours of deep sleep consequent on hard labor as the roar of the waters been hushed but now the danger is over now the toil has ceased now the gloom
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What planting 2 trillion...
of messages of doom and gloom and they're depressing and we end up failing to care don't we and when you don't care you don't act even if it's really important so working with some smart
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Braving a Thunderstorm...
the gloom there it is my first ever named wolf I have to say I've seen the majority and members of the dog family around the world and I've never seen one
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
Lions will be moving in series the war talk that's exactly where their gloom has killed the water yesterday Chella pan is just next to the drainage and because it's sort of downslope those areas are invariably where the muddy waters will be formed into more vegetation you might not see water in the river system but it is deep sort of
Video examples
We need to green the...
gloom about climate uh but then there are a lot of good news in a way that go almost unnoticed uh give us maybe a couple of examples of of of those early signals of change or those good news and why do you think they're important and how to think about that well first thing that says don't spend too much time reading all those gloomy
Video examples
The Eco-Creators Helping...
who frankly don’t have time to get stuck in the cycles of doom and gloom. The need for climate optimism has never been more urgent. If we limit our vision of the future to one filled with oil rigs, smokestacks and suffering, we limit our capacity and shirk our duty to change the course of humanity for the better.
Video examples
Neil Pasricha: The 3 A's...
when you will be tossed in the well, too, with twists in your stomach and with holes in your heart, and when that bad news washes over you, and when that pain sponges and soaks in, I just really hope you feel like you've always got two choices. One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever,
Video examples
The 3 A's of awesome -...
gloom and doom forever or two you can grieve and then face the future with newly sober eyes having a great attitude is about choosing option number two and choosing no matter how difficult it is no matter what pain hits
Video examples
Why are these 32 symbols...
a shadowy opening in a limestone cliff that draws you in. As you pass through the portal between light and dark, you enter a subterranean world -- a place of perpetual gloom, of earthy smells, of hushed silence.
Video examples
How to recover from...
show that burnout and depression are widespread amongst activists. Years ago, I myself was burned out. In a world of endless ways forward, I felt at my final stop. So what melts fear or dullness or gloom?
Video examples
John Wesley Powell: From...
could be seen at night only during the few hours of deep sleep consequent on hard labor as the roar of the waters been hushed but now the danger is over now the toil has ceased now the gloom
Video examples
What planting 2 trillion...
of messages of doom and gloom and they're depressing and we end up failing to care don't we and when you don't care you don't act even if it's really important so working with some smart
Video examples
Braving a Thunderstorm...
the gloom there it is my first ever named wolf I have to say I've seen the majority and members of the dog family around the world and I've never seen one
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Quote examples
Simon Cowell
British Entertainer
For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.
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Ulysses S. Grant
American President
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.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
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.
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Khalil Gibran
Lebanese Poet
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.
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Thomas Jefferson
American President
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.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Indian Poet
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
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Joe Maddon
American Businessman
Cincinnati beats you up for three days, and all of a sudden it's doom and gloom. I cannot live my life that way.
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Orson Welles
American Actor
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Indian Businessman
When there's doom and gloom, don't forget there's darkness before dawn.
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Fareed Zakaria
American Journalist
I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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Simon Cowell
British Entertainer
For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.
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Ulysses S. Grant
American President
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.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
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.
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Khalil Gibran
Lebanese Poet
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.
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Thomas Jefferson
American President
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.
Quote examples
Rabindranath Tagore
Indian Poet
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Quote examples
Joe Maddon
American Businessman
Cincinnati beats you up for three days, and all of a sudden it's doom and gloom. I cannot live my life that way.
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Orson Welles
American Actor
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Indian Businessman
When there's doom and gloom, don't forget there's darkness before dawn.
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Fareed Zakaria
American Journalist
I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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