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

1. noun. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
2. noun. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
3. noun. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
4. noun. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
5. intransitive verb. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
6. intransitive verb. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.
7. transitive verb. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
8. transitive verb. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
9. noun. a feeling of melancholy apprehension

   Synonyms: gloominess, somberness, sombreness

10. noun. a state of partial or total darkness

    "he struck a match to dispel the gloom"

    Synonyms: somberness, sombreness

11. noun. an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

    "gloom pervaded the office"

    Synonyms: gloominess, glumness

Synonyms

gloominess, somberness, sombreness, glumness

Common word forms

glooms, gloomed, gloomful, glooming, gloomless

Words from these letters

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