英语词汇“gloom”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	gloom
释义	gloom I. \ˈglüm\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English gloumen, gloumben; akin to Middle High German beglūmen to make turbid, deceive, Norwegian dialect glome to stare somberly and suspiciously, Old Swedish glūna to look askance, Old English geolu yellow — more at yellow *intransitive verb* 1. a. : to be, look, or act sullen, displeased, or annoyed : frown, lower, scowl, glower < glooming over his coffee at the way he had been tricked > b. : to be, look, or act low in spirits : feel or show dejection or cheerlessness : feel or show melancholy or despondency : mope, brood < glooms at being kept in the hospital — John McCarten > < all citizens had a tax increase … to gloom about — Mollie Panter-Downes > < got sorrier and sorrier for myself, glooming on how things always went wrong somewhere — Gavin Casey > < very wise in not glooming over what is inevitable — J.B.Cabell > 2. a. archaic : to be or become overcast or murky (as of the weather) : be or become dull, cloudy, dark, or threatening b. : to be or become twilight : grow toward dark : be or become dusk < it was glooming fast in the thick timber — Irving Bacheller > 3. : to loom up dimly or obscurely : appear indistinctly in or as if in a fading or uncertain light : appear darkly or dismally : come somberly into view < at the edge of the precipice the ancient castle gloomed > : appear dimly : glimmer < a citron color gloomed in her hair — W.B.Yeats > *transitive verb* 1. archaic : to cause to be melancholy : sadden < what sorrows gloomed that parting day — Oliver Goldsmith > < such a mood as that, which lately gloomed your fancy — Alfred Tennyson > 2. : to make dark, murky, or somber < already the evening shadows were glooming the forest — Ambrose Bierce > < clouds gloomed the street — Raymond Lee > 3. : to utter with melancholy, dejection, or despondency : say morosely < “I've tried about everything else,” gloomed the architect — Jay Franklin > II. noun (-s) 1. chiefly Scotland : a sullen look : frown, scowl 2. a. : partial or total darkness < the gloom of the night > < difficult for the most practiced eye to pierce far into the gloom — J.L.Motley > : glimmering obscurity : dimness < the cool gloom of the cathedral > < the light coming through the windows set high in the walls had darkened to the sudden gloom of the summer storm — Mary Deasy > : deep shadowiness or shadiness < resting for a moment in the quiet gloom of the forest > especially : a dismally depressing darkness or murkiness < a raw and detestable winter day and the gloom and noise of the huge town oppressed the soul — Leonard Bacon > b. : a partially or totally darkened place, spot, or region < in this Italian glare I pine for the glooms of London — Aldous Huxley > : a shadowy or shady place < within the green glooms of the shadowy oak — J.R.Lowell > 3. a. : a state of melancholy or depression : lowness of spirits : dejection, despondency < the results of the Rome meeting were rather inconclusive and discouraging as the delegates departed in gloom — S.B.Fay > b. : an appearance or atmosphere of melancholy and despondency < constant repinings at the dullness of everything around them threw a real gloom over their domestic circle — Jane Austen > 4. : one who is depressingly melancholy < I'd have been a gloom in all that commencement gaiety — Mark Reed > : killjoy < a set of glooms called censors — H.C.Witwer > Synonyms: see sadness
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