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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181. They were scarcely two hundred yards distant; yet such was the gloom that they could not be clearly distinguished.
182. Barclays deepened the gloom with first-half profits collapsing from last year's £378million to £51million.
183. Occasionally a shout or a loud laugh broke the gloom.
184. The gloom on leaving La Paz was instantly dispelled by the views on gaining the Altiplano.
185. And he had a sense of gloom about the findings of the inquest.
186. Further gloom was cast by the next piece of information.
187. One of the advantages of the belt is that the animals are easily visible from afar in the gloom in rough country.
188. In the gloom he must have looked like a ghost.
189. I stood in the doorway of a store during the storms we were having and watched the rain fall through the gloom.
190. The captain's finish combined power and precision[Sentencedict.com ], and the visiting fans were already trudging away into the gloom.
191. You know the kind of thing, all black shadows and gloom.
192. It isn't all gloom because there are compensations and saving graces.
193. Then the pines closed ranks again, their tall red trunks glowing softly in the gloom of the afternoon.
194. Not that anybody would have looked too good in that gloom.
195. General gloom means that GRE could face a total 1990 loss of £100m.
196. Part of it was open to the sky, so that a wedge of scalding light fell into the gloom.
197. She reached out to switch on the bedhead light and realised that the blackness of night had been replaced by grey gloom.
198. Another pocket of gloom was among managers who invested heavily abroad.
199. Recurring spasms of gloom and euphoria tend to be self-fulfilling.
200. Through the dingy gloom of this motionless train, I catch a first glimpse of my fellow travellers.
201. Then the old female golden eagle came out into the gloom to see what the fuss was.
202. The shabbiness of the district and the dingy gloom of the school itself meant nothing to Clara.
203. The bumblebees are still foraging from the chokecherry blossoms in the gloom.
204. These final days of the third session were taking place in increasing gloom.
205. The gangway lamps seemed to give no light, only add further to the gloom of the dusk.
206. This time last year we were very apprehensive about entering a year when so much doom and gloom was being talked about.
207. The Range Rover's lights swept into view, illuminating the torrents of rain, the unusually dark, almost eerie gloom.
208. Then he saw them separate and disappear into the gloom.
209. He tried to banish gloom from his thought.
210. Charley moved close to her in the vestibule gloom.