English Dictionary

gloom

/ɡluːm/

verb

(intransitive) To be dark or gloomy. / (intransitive) To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent. / (transitive) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

The sky began to gloom as the storm approached.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To be dark or gloomy.

Here, while the proud their long drawn pomps diſplay, / There the black gibbet glooms beſide the way.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.

Her face gathers, furrows, glooms; arching eyebrows wrinkle into horizontals, and a tinge of bitterness unsmooths the cheek and robs the lip of sweetened grace. She is evidently perturbed.

意味（3）

(transitive) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

A black yew gloom'd the stagnant air.

意味（4）

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

For see you not, dear love, / Such a mood as that, which lately gloom'd / Your fancy when you saw me following you, / Must make me fear still more you are not mine, […]

意味（5）

To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.