Meaning of "gloom" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GLOOM

Gloumben to look sullen; related to Norwegian dialect glome to eye suspiciously.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF GLOOM

gloom  [ɡluːm]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GLOOM

Gloom is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb gloom in English.

WHAT DOES GLOOM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Gloom

Gloom is a low level of light which is so dim that there are physiological and psychological effects. Human vision at this level becomes monochrome and the place then seems dull and depressing.

Definition of gloom in the English dictionary

The first definition of gloom in the dictionary is partial or total darkness. Other definition of gloom is a state of depression or melancholy. Gloom is also an appearance or expression of despondency or melancholy.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO GLOOM

PRESENT

Present

I gloom

you gloom

he/she/it glooms

we gloom

you gloom

they gloom

Present continuous

I am glooming

you are glooming

he/she/it is glooming

we are glooming

you are glooming

they are glooming

Present perfect

I have gloomed

you have gloomed

he/she/it has gloomed

we have gloomed

you have gloomed

they have gloomed

Present perfect continuous

I have been glooming

you have been glooming

he/she/it has been glooming

we have been glooming

you have been glooming

they have been glooming

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I gloomed

you gloomed

he/she/it gloomed

we gloomed

you gloomed

they gloomed

Past continuous

I was glooming

you were glooming

he/she/it was glooming

we were glooming

you were glooming

they were glooming

Past perfect

I had gloomed

you had gloomed

he/she/it had gloomed

we had gloomed

you had gloomed

they had gloomed

Past perfect continuous

I had been glooming

you had been glooming

he/she/it had been glooming

we had been glooming

you had been glooming

they had been glooming

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will gloom

you will gloom

he/she/it will gloom

we will gloom

you will gloom

they will gloom

Future continuous

I will be glooming

you will be glooming

he/she/it will be glooming

we will be glooming

you will be glooming

they will be glooming

Future perfect

I will have gloomed

you will have gloomed

he/she/it will have gloomed

we will have gloomed

you will have gloomed

they will have gloomed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been glooming

you will have been glooming

he/she/it will have been glooming

we will have been glooming

you will have been glooming

they will have been glooming

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would gloom

you would gloom

he/she/it would gloom

we would gloom

you would gloom

they would gloom

Conditional continuous

I would be glooming

you would be glooming

he/she/it would be glooming

we would be glooming

you would be glooming

they would be glooming

Conditional perfect

I would have gloom

you would have gloom

he/she/it would have gloom

we would have gloom

you would have gloom

they would have gloom

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been glooming

you would have been glooming

he/she/it would have been glooming

we would have been glooming

you would have been glooming

they would have been glooming

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you gloom
we let´s gloom
you gloom

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to gloom

Past participle

gloomed

Present Participle

glooming

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «GLOOM»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «gloom» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of gloom

blackness · blues · cloud · cloudiness · dark · darkness · dejection · depression · desolation · despair · despondency · dimness · downheartedness · dullness · dusk · duskiness · gloominess · melancholy · misery · murk · murkiness · obscurity · sadness · shade · shadow · sorrow · twilight · unhappiness · woe

TRANSLATION OF GLOOM

Find out the translation of gloom to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of gloom from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gloom» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 昏暗
• Translator English - Spanish: penumbra
• English: gloom
• Translator English - Hindi: उदासी
• Translator English - Arabic: الكآبة
• Translator English - Russian: мрак
• Translator English - Portuguese: escuridão
• Translator English - Bengali: বিষাদ
• Translator English - French: morosité
• Translator English - Malay: Kesuraman
• Translator English - German: Düsterkeit
• Translator English - Japanese: うす暗さ
• Translator English - Korean: 어두침침함
• Translator English - Javanese: Gloom
• Translator English - Vietnamese: sự ảm đạm
• Translator English - Tamil: மனச்சோர்வு
• Translator English - Marathi: विषाद
• Translator English - Turkish: kasvet
• Translator English - Italian: oscurità
• Translator English - Polish: mrok
• Translator English - Ukrainian: морок
• Translator English - Romanian: beznă
• Translator English - Greek: κατήφεια
• Translator English - Afrikaans: donkerte
• Translator English - Swedish: mörker
• Translator English - Norwegian: tungsinn

10 QUOTES WITH «GLOOM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word gloom.

1

Joseph Addison

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

2

Martin Amis

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.

3

Matthew Arnold

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

4

Alain de Botton

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

5

Amanda Burton

I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.

6

Simon Cowell

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.

7

Margaret Drabble

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

8

Ulysses S. Grant

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.

9

Os Guinness

The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.

10

Shirley Henderson

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GLOOM»

Discover the use of gloom in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gloom and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Gustav Gloom and the People Taker #1

Enter an exciting new world of shadows from Hugo Award nominee Adam-Troy Castro.

Adam-Troy Castro, 2012

Gustav Gloom and the Nightmare Vault #2

Hugo Award nominee Adam-Troy Castro’s exciting new world full of shadows and mystery grows in book 2 of the Gustav Gloom series.

Adam-Troy Castro, 2013

Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the ...

In this very readable and fascinating study, Marjorie Hope Nicolson considers the intellectual renaissance at the close of the seventeenth century that caused the shift from mountain gloom to mountain glory.

Marjorie Hope Nicolson, 1997

A Blaze in the Darkening Gloom: The Life of Rav Meir Shapiro ...

Expertly written, this fascinating book will draw you back in time, to a world that was, and a dream that is, and will be, preserved forever.

Yehoshuʻa Boimel, Meir Shapira, 1994

Gloom Party 1

How to Read Manga is a great way to polish your Japanese manga reading skills. Learn slang, dark humor and the uniquely Japanese comedic rhythm in Yoshio Kawashima's classic Gloom Party, a shorts collection from shonen champion comics.

Yoshio Kawashima, 2006

Percy Gloom

A debut graphic novel by the director of Rugrats and The Wild Thornberrys follows the wayward experiences of Percy Gloom after losing his wife to a lotharian cult leader, adventures that include his pursuit by a muffin-throwing socialite ...

Cathy Malkasian, 2007

From Gloom to Glory

Hockey threw him into ignominy and then suddenly made him famous. This is the dramatic life of goalkeeper Mir Ranjan Negi who was the much- lauded coach of the cast of the film Chak De India made by Yash Raj Films.

Mir Ranjan Negi, 2008

Gustav Gloom and the Four Terrors #3

In Gustav Gloom and the Four Terrors, things are not always what they seem in the Gloom Mansion.

Adam-Troy Castro, 2013

Ugenia Lavender Temple Of Gloom

Each book in the series contains three stories plus Ugenia's Big News, Top Tips and extra Brain Sqeezer puzzle pages. Book 5 - Ugenia is convinced there is real-life giant living next to her Granny Betty. But just how does she prove it?

Geri Halliwell, 2010

Ruby Gloom's Guide to Friendship

If Ruby Gloom's friends seem somewhat unusual, "well then, welcome to Gloomsville, where being different IS normal."

Matt Riser, Martin Hsu, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GLOOM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gloom is used in the context of the following news items.

4 keys to earnings: Global gloom, consumers, the dollar and buybacks

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Search for a remedy to clear gloom over Dawn

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Amid the doom and gloom, some good news for NSW Blues fans

For NSW fans in desperate need of a good news story, here it is. For the fourth straight year, the Blues have proven they have the best ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»

How Stutterheim Is Growing Its Cult of Cool Raincoats and Swedish …

Given Stutterheim's background, it's easy to write off the obsession with gloom as a clever marketing ploy. What could be more distinctive, in a ... «Fashionista, Jul 15»

Hull fans see doom and gloom lifted as Tigers confirm new shirt …

Hull may have been relegated from the Premier League, face uncertainty over their name once again and face the prospect of winger Robbie ... «The Independent, Jul 15»

4 China A-Shares ETFs Pick Up After Gloom - ETF News And …

After spearheading the global markets for most of this year, the Chinese stocks and ETFs succumbed to a steep correction as their valuation ... «Nasdaq, Jul 15»

4 China A-Shares ETFs Pick Up After Gloom

After spearheading the global markets for most of this year, the Chinese stocks and ETFs succumbed to a steep correction as their valuation ... «Zacks.com, Jul 15»

David Herro's 2Q15 Commentary: All Is Not Gloom And Doom

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WIIM Summer Photo Caption Contest 2015: July Gloom

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China's stocks crisis: keeping a positive view despite all the gloom

To experts, China's stockmarket rout has been spectacular. For the average investor on the street, it's bewildering. Yesterday it again crashed ... «The Australian, Jul 15»