Synonym: gloominess, glumness, somberness, sombreness. Similar words: gloomy, glooming, loom, bloom, blooming, glow, globe, glove. Meaning: [gluːm] n. 1. a state of partial or total darkness 2. a feeling of melancholy apprehension 3. an atmosphere of depression and melancholy.
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121. But back in Villa Volkov that night, we began to sink into gloom.
122. As he journeyed home in the early-morning gloom, he tried to fix it in his mind with words.
123. Both men had reason to prefer the gloom, for one was a traitor and the other a spy.
124. Rising to his feet, he touched the light switch, dispelling the gathering gloom, before striding through to his office. Sentencedict.com
125. A poster, white lettering on red background, blared from the gloom of the opposite wall.
126. He stood, arms akimbo, looking around in the musty gloom.
127. They ended in a pair of green bronze doors, each so high that they disappeared into the gloom.
128. De Quincey reported that these endless processions produced in him feelings of deep melancholy and gloom.
129. Even so, most of the older nomes preferred to stay in the sheds, or in the cosy gloom under the floorboards.
130. For a change in their routine, he and Barnabas crossed the street and walked past Mitford Blossoms in the deepening gloom.
131. I have been re-transformed to myself and this civilised gloom.
132. There had been long weeks when he lay sunk in gloom and introspection.
133. The steps leading to our old flat were as shrouded in gloom as they had been when I was a schoolboy.
134. Alexandra saw a wooden hobby horse abandoned in the gloom, one wheel missing.
135. The prospects were pleasing even on this dismal day in the gathering gloom.
136. Darkness had come prematurely with the deluge, the gloom summoned early by such an abundance of black cloud.
137. There's something about those milestone birthdays that brings out millennial gloom rather than the gaiety in us all.
138. A spider the size of her thumbnail dropped past her in the gloom, its legs brushing her cheek.
139. We navigated the Stygian gloom of the corridor arm in arm like a quaint, old-fashioned couple.
140. After years of fiscal gloom, they hope Brown will bring his political clout to the corporate realm.
141. Trent rode in first gear, headlight tunnelling into the forest gloom through which the rain bucketed.
142. In mounting dismay she peered into the gloom, the invidious nature of her position coming home to her with a vengeance.
143. Not even the love scenes between Guillaume Depardieu and Anne Brochet can lift the deeply entrenched gloom.
144. They pick a path through the crowded gloom inside to a low table in a corner at the far end.
145. He took a couple of wrong turnings in the gloom and was angry when he reached Jacqui's flat.
146. Once, at lunch, Margarett complained about the gloom of her bedroom.
147. Refracted through the windows of the police car they shattered into blazing jewels set in the gloom of twilight.
148. I could see his diseased eyeballs glowing in the gloom.
149. Out of the gloom emerge the later paintings, charnel house visions of desolation.
150. In a year of economic gloom for the car industry, it was a spectacular success.