gloom
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Definition of gloom
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gloom
nounDefinition of gloom (Entry 2 of 2)
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Synonyms & Antonyms for gloom
Synonyms: Verb
frown, glare, glower, lower (also lour), scowl
Synonyms: Noun
blue devils, blues, dejection, depression, desolation, despond, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, miserableness, mopes, mournfulness, oppression, sadness, sorrowfulness, unhappiness
Antonyms: Verb
Antonyms: Noun
bliss, blissfulness, ecstasy, elatedness, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, felicity, gladness, gladsomeness, happiness, heaven, intoxication, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, rapture, rapturousness
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Examples of gloom in a Sentence
Verb
we just sat there, glooming, as we waited and waited for our dinners to arrive he continued to gloom over the fact that he had been passed over for promotion to district managerNoun
The painting captures the gloom of a foggy night. He walked away, disappearing into the gloom. the gloom of the forest He was often subject to periods of gloom. A cloud of gloom has descended over the city.
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Don’t let the doom and gloom of these reports get you down. — NBC News, "How women can negotiate for better pay past their 'peak earning age' of 44," 28 Aug. 2019 Embracing the doom-and-gloom rhetoric of the Left isn’t just bad statistics. — John Hood, National Review, "New Nationalists Make Three Big Bets," 28 Aug. 2019 How does a person respond to limitless doom and gloom? — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, "The Loneliest Generation Embraces Billie Eilish," 23 Aug. 2019 But here’s some good news amid the doom and gloom: Help is on the way. — Anthony Flint, BostonGlobe.com, "Tired of waiting for national push, a buzzing hive of climate resilience innovators is at work in Boston," 8 Aug. 2019 Her column asserts that if Colorado offers a public option, citizens will lose their health care services and doom and gloom will prevail. — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, "Letters: Caring about cost of health care; A price too high to pay?; Make classrooms manageable (8/16/19)," 16 Aug. 2019 Shearing argues that some of the gloom and doom is unjustified. — Charles Riley, CNN, "5 of the world's biggest economies are at risk of recession," 14 Aug. 2019 That wouldn’t amount to the ending of economic problems for most Puerto Ricans, but the intensity of gloom is at least in decline. — A.r. | Chicago, The Economist, "The resignation of Ricardo Rosselló," 25 July 2019 June gloom is over — at least in the red-hot realm of real estate. — Jack Flemming, latimes.com, "Hot Property: Rocker Lindsey Buckingham takes a bow in Brentwood," 13 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'gloom.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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