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Definition of gloom in English: gloomnoun ɡluːmɡlum mass noun1Partial or total darkness. 阴暗；黑暗 he strained his eyes peering into the gloom 他睁大眼睛使劲往黑暗处看。 Example sentencesExamples - The dusk only discernible from the jungle gloom by the sound of evening-song from invisible birds and the sharp slant of the setting sun between branches.
- I stood near a window, gazing into the vast darkness that enveloped the island in gloom.
- Through the now deepening gloom he could see her steeped in shadow, looking on to the deep gloom of the back of his garden.
- The candles had burnt away to waxy stumps and the battery in one of the lamps had died through the night leaving her side sunk into darkness and gloom.
- But its overwhelming gloom withdraws into a hazy shadow as the moon showers its silver hues.
- The sun had set, and a darkening gloom hung over the land.
- The tall warrior's hair flew against the breeze of the deep winter gloom.
- The surrounding lights seemed to dim, further deepening the gloom.
- Not the darkness of oblivion but the shroud of gloom on a sunless winter day, which made the room look as though as though the light had been switched off.
- Peering out past her hood into the dark gloom, she thought she made out a white shape fluttering in the wind of the storm.
- Something about the gloom and the darkness appealed to me, probably the same reason I loved horror movies.
- It leaned forward, and although it was half hidden in shadowy gloom, Peter could see that the dim white gleam of its skin was spotted with red.
- When she turned, she could see nothing but her sofa in the predawn gloom.
- Through the distorted glass of the windows the flurries of snow continued to dance and swirl, the grey light turning the room to a place of gloom and shadows.
- With racing starting early and competitors setting off just seconds apart, the entry has to be limited to 1,800 to protect late runners from having to compete in dusk gloom.
- He had been away since the first rays of watery sunshine pierced the woodland gloom.
- I was working by the sunlight while the rest of the room was enshrouded in darkness and gloom.
- After a nice, sunny weekend, we're back to June gloom.
- The massive ship's boilers were easily recognised, piercing the gloom like giant globes.
- After the twilight gloom of the entrance came the deepening blackness of the cave's belly.
Synonyms darkness, semi-darkness, dark, gloominess, dimness, blackness, murkiness, murk, shadows, shade, shadiness, obscurity dusk, twilight, gloaming rare tenebrosity - 1.1literary count noun A dark or shady place.
〈诗/文〉（阴）暗处，多荫之处 the meadow-hen floats off, to sink into remoter shades and ferny glooms Example sentencesExamples - Blacks, whites, shadows, glooms, and cobwebs are also used with formidable effect in the Satis House scenes in Great Expectations.
- I sense she may stray into the odd shadowy church and weep there in the candlelit gloom.
- He rode in a gloom full of sighing like voices and full of dropping like footsteps.
- His ingenious lighting did much to make the most of the subtle settings, some of which poured strange light into Stygian glooms.
2A state of depression or despondency. 萧条；沮丧 a year of economic gloom for the car industry 汽车业一年的经济萧条。 他愈发消沉。 Example sentencesExamples - This is not someone who views the way ahead with gloom and despondency.
- The victory temporarily lifted the gloom surrounding the team's battle against relegation from the Premiership.
- Laughter gets rid of gloom, aggravation, depression, worry - all forms of tension.
- I had no words of wisdom to dispel his gloom, no comfort to offer him.
- We're staying several steps ahead of gloom, despair, deep dark depression, and excessive misery.
- I hope by the end of this article to have lightened the gloom.
- For years we have watched misery and gloom, death and fury.
- After the lengthy period of economic gloom in the tech sector, that's a good thing.
- The town was still plagued in gloom, and depression, and seemed to have only gotten worse over time.
- He said the biggest danger came from those predicting economic gloom.
- Though a settler-farmer not dependent entirely on farm income for a living, even I am not able to escape this feeling of gloom and depression.
- The only feeling she could identify was one of gloom and depression.
- City analysts feared the global economic gloom would affect consumers in the run-up to Christmas but they have instead witnessed a surge in spending.
- He has been such a bright and consistent light amidst the usual gathering glooms.
- The first of these seems to have caused a sense of gloom, despondency and weary hopelessness to descend on the author as he sat down to put his book together.
- It was born into a period of economic gloom as those who were around in the early 1980s will recall.
- So they continued, but a cloud of gloom hung over the company.
- Our opposition is determined to create the myth that the last three years represented a period of unhappiness and gloom.
- The hope is that this will offset the gathering gloom about prospects.
- The morale-boosting victory lifted the gloom hanging over the club amid the uncertainty surrounding its future.
Synonyms despondency, depression, dejection, downheartedness, dispiritedness, heavy-heartedness, melancholy, melancholia, unhappiness, sadness, glumness, gloominess, low spirits, dolefulness, misery, sorrow, sorrowfulness, forlornness, woefulness, woe, wretchedness, lugubriousness, moroseness, mirthlessness, cheerlessness despair, pessimism, hopelessness, the slough of despond, negativity German Weltschmerz informal the blues, the dumps North American informal the blahs rare mopery
verb ɡluːmɡlum [no object]1literary Have a dark or sombre appearance. 〈诗/文〉外观昏暗；形似忧郁 the black gibbet glooms beside the way 路旁黑色绞架阴森森的。 Example sentencesExamples - Lucia looked outside and saw grey smoldered clouds glooming over her house, the redness of dawn shined behind its gloomy mask.
- A darkness gloomed high over them and their heatbeats subsided and they stopped dead in their steps.
- Pretty soon, she was deep into her daydreams and didn't realize the peeved teacher glooming over her desk.
- Just then, he saw a large house glooming in the distance.
- He got to the end and stopped; a deadly silence gloomed.
- 1.1with object Make dark or dismal.
使昏暗；使黑暗；使忧郁；使凄凉 a black yew gloom'd the stagnant air 一棵黑黢黢的水松使得污滞的空气变得昏暗。
2Be or look depressed or despondent. 萧条；沮丧 Charles was always glooming about money 查尔斯总是为钱而垂头丧气。 Example sentencesExamples - He gloomed over average household rates rises of 4.5 percent this year, warned that they could fire inflation, cause a tightening in monetary policy, depress the entire economy.
- ‘The combination of risks and uncertainties is more numerous than probably at any time in recent world history,’ he gloomed to the newspaper.
- Light and dark, the sun and the moon - don't let these dualities lead you to gloom.
- But sometimes, even how happy your day was there would come an instance where the sun would hide and we feel gloomed.
- Of course they have every right to celebrate, after glooming for so long and not knowing what's going to happen, this serves as their first big break.
OriginLate Middle English (as a verb): of unknown origin. Rhymesabloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, combe, consume, doom, entomb, exhume, flume, foredoom, fume, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, neume, perfume, plume, presume, resume, rheum, room, spume, subsume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom Definition of gloom in US English: gloomnounɡlumɡlo͞om 1Partial or total darkness. 阴暗；黑暗 he strained his eyes peering into the gloom 他睁大眼睛使劲往黑暗处看。 Example sentencesExamples - Not the darkness of oblivion but the shroud of gloom on a sunless winter day, which made the room look as though as though the light had been switched off.
- Something about the gloom and the darkness appealed to me, probably the same reason I loved horror movies.
- The massive ship's boilers were easily recognised, piercing the gloom like giant globes.
- It leaned forward, and although it was half hidden in shadowy gloom, Peter could see that the dim white gleam of its skin was spotted with red.
- The sun had set, and a darkening gloom hung over the land.
- Through the now deepening gloom he could see her steeped in shadow, looking on to the deep gloom of the back of his garden.
- The tall warrior's hair flew against the breeze of the deep winter gloom.
- After a nice, sunny weekend, we're back to June gloom.
- The candles had burnt away to waxy stumps and the battery in one of the lamps had died through the night leaving her side sunk into darkness and gloom.
- The surrounding lights seemed to dim, further deepening the gloom.
- The dusk only discernible from the jungle gloom by the sound of evening-song from invisible birds and the sharp slant of the setting sun between branches.
- Peering out past her hood into the dark gloom, she thought she made out a white shape fluttering in the wind of the storm.
- He had been away since the first rays of watery sunshine pierced the woodland gloom.
- When she turned, she could see nothing but her sofa in the predawn gloom.
- With racing starting early and competitors setting off just seconds apart, the entry has to be limited to 1,800 to protect late runners from having to compete in dusk gloom.
- But its overwhelming gloom withdraws into a hazy shadow as the moon showers its silver hues.
- I was working by the sunlight while the rest of the room was enshrouded in darkness and gloom.
- Through the distorted glass of the windows the flurries of snow continued to dance and swirl, the grey light turning the room to a place of gloom and shadows.
- After the twilight gloom of the entrance came the deepening blackness of the cave's belly.
- I stood near a window, gazing into the vast darkness that enveloped the island in gloom.
Synonyms darkness, semi-darkness, dark, gloominess, dimness, blackness, murkiness, murk, shadows, shade, shadiness, obscurity - 1.1literary A dark or shady place.
〈诗/文〉（阴）暗处，多荫之处 Example sentencesExamples - His ingenious lighting did much to make the most of the subtle settings, some of which poured strange light into Stygian glooms.
- Blacks, whites, shadows, glooms, and cobwebs are also used with formidable effect in the Satis House scenes in Great Expectations.
- He rode in a gloom full of sighing like voices and full of dropping like footsteps.
- I sense she may stray into the odd shadowy church and weep there in the candlelit gloom.
2A state of depression or despondency. 萧条；沮丧 a year of economic gloom for the car industry 汽车业一年的经济萧条。 他愈发消沉。 Example sentencesExamples - For years we have watched misery and gloom, death and fury.
- I had no words of wisdom to dispel his gloom, no comfort to offer him.
- He said the biggest danger came from those predicting economic gloom.
- Our opposition is determined to create the myth that the last three years represented a period of unhappiness and gloom.
- I hope by the end of this article to have lightened the gloom.
- We're staying several steps ahead of gloom, despair, deep dark depression, and excessive misery.
- This is not someone who views the way ahead with gloom and despondency.
- Though a settler-farmer not dependent entirely on farm income for a living, even I am not able to escape this feeling of gloom and depression.
- City analysts feared the global economic gloom would affect consumers in the run-up to Christmas but they have instead witnessed a surge in spending.
- It was born into a period of economic gloom as those who were around in the early 1980s will recall.
- The victory temporarily lifted the gloom surrounding the team's battle against relegation from the Premiership.
- So they continued, but a cloud of gloom hung over the company.
- After the lengthy period of economic gloom in the tech sector, that's a good thing.
- He has been such a bright and consistent light amidst the usual gathering glooms.
- Laughter gets rid of gloom, aggravation, depression, worry - all forms of tension.
- The first of these seems to have caused a sense of gloom, despondency and weary hopelessness to descend on the author as he sat down to put his book together.
- The hope is that this will offset the gathering gloom about prospects.
- The town was still plagued in gloom, and depression, and seemed to have only gotten worse over time.
- The morale-boosting victory lifted the gloom hanging over the club amid the uncertainty surrounding its future.
- The only feeling she could identify was one of gloom and depression.
Synonyms despondency, depression, dejection, downheartedness, dispiritedness, heavy-heartedness, melancholy, melancholia, unhappiness, sadness, glumness, gloominess, low spirits, dolefulness, misery, sorrow, sorrowfulness, forlornness, woefulness, woe, wretchedness, lugubriousness, moroseness, mirthlessness, cheerlessness
verbɡlumɡlo͞om [no object]1literary Have a dark or somber appearance. 〈诗/文〉外观昏暗；形似忧郁 the black gibbet glooms beside the way 路旁黑色绞架阴森森的。 Example sentencesExamples - A darkness gloomed high over them and their heatbeats subsided and they stopped dead in their steps.
- Pretty soon, she was deep into her daydreams and didn't realize the peeved teacher glooming over her desk.
- Lucia looked outside and saw grey smoldered clouds glooming over her house, the redness of dawn shined behind its gloomy mask.
- He got to the end and stopped; a deadly silence gloomed.
- Just then, he saw a large house glooming in the distance.
- 1.1with object Cover with gloom; make dark or dismal.
使昏暗；使黑暗；使忧郁；使凄凉 a black yew gloom'd the stagnant air 一棵黑黢黢的水松使得污滞的空气变得昏暗。
2Be or look depressed or despondent. 萧条；沮丧 Charles was always glooming about money 查尔斯总是为钱而垂头丧气。 Example sentencesExamples - He gloomed over average household rates rises of 4.5 percent this year, warned that they could fire inflation, cause a tightening in monetary policy, depress the entire economy.
- Of course they have every right to celebrate, after glooming for so long and not knowing what's going to happen, this serves as their first big break.
- ‘The combination of risks and uncertainties is more numerous than probably at any time in recent world history,’ he gloomed to the newspaper.
- But sometimes, even how happy your day was there would come an instance where the sun would hide and we feel gloomed.
- Light and dark, the sun and the moon - don't let these dualities lead you to gloom.
OriginLate Middle English (as a verb): of unknown origin. |