Dictionary Entry
gloom
gloom is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
- 2noun
A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
- 3noun
Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
- 4noun
In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
- 5intransitive verb
To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
- 6intransitive verb
To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.
- 7transitive verb
To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
- 8transitive verb
To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
- 9noun
a feeling of melancholy apprehension
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- 10noun
a state of partial or total darkness
"he struck a match to dispel the gloom"
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- 11noun
an atmosphere of depression and melancholy
"gloom pervaded the office"
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