gloom

gloom has 11 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
• n.. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
• n.. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
• n.. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
• v. i.. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
• v. i.. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.
• v. t.. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
• v. t.. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
• n.. a feeling of melancholy apprehension
• n.. a state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to dispel the gloom"
• n.. an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office"