OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 27822

gloom

/ɡluːm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
penumbra
Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.
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 day…
the gloom of a forest, or of midnight
tristeza
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 fie…
Although it's always crowded You still can find some room For broken-hearted lovers To cry there in their gloom.
melancolía
Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.
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