gloom
sustantivoverboatestiguado en diálogos
- Reino Unido//ɡluːm//
- Estados Unidos//ɡlum//
Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.
sustantivo
- 1
Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.
the gloom of a forest, or of midnight
Here was a surprise, and a sad one for me, for I perceived that I had slept away a day, and that the sun was setting for another night. And yet it mattered little, for night or daytime there was no light to help me in this horrible place; and though my eyes had grown accustomed to the gloom, I could make out nothing to show me where to work.
On December 13, Maritime-liveried 66051 powers out of the early morning gloom with three repatriated Class 66s, on the 0809 Dollands Moor Sidings-Scunthorpe Redbourne Siding.
- 2
A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
A sudden little river crossed my path / As unexpected as a serpent comes. / No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms— / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof—to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.
Although it's always crowded You still can find some room For broken-hearted lovers To cry there in their gloom.
- 3
Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.
- 4
A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.
Etimología
From Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight, darkness”), from Proto-West Germanic *glōm, from Proto-Germanic *glōmaz (“gleam, shimmer, sheen”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). The English word is cognate with Norwegian glom (“transparent membrane”), Scots gloam (“twilight; faint light; dull gleam”).
verbo
- 1
To be dark or gloomy.
Here, while the proud their long drawn pomps diſplay, / There the black gibbet glooms beſide the way.
Around all the dark forest gloomed.
- 2
To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
Her face gathers, furrows, glooms; arching eyebrows wrinkle into horizontals, and a tinge of bitterness unsmooths the cheek and robs the lip of sweetened grace. She is evidently perturbed.
Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.
"Is Maggie then astonishing too?"—and he gloomed out of his window.
He gloomed for some moments above the round-topped table[.]
- 3
To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
A black yew gloom'd the stagnant air.
- 4
To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
For see you not, dear love, / Such a mood as that, which lately gloom'd / Your fancy when you saw me following you, / Must make me fear still more you are not mine, […]
Good Heaven! What ſorrows gloom'd that parting day, / That called them from their native walks away; […]
- 5
To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
Formas
- plural
- glooms
- pasado
- gloomed
- participio
- gloomed
- gerundio
- glooming
- 3.ª persona del singular
- glooms