Usually means: Pervasive sense of somber darkness.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word gloom:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gloom: Merriam-Webster
  2. gloom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gloom: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gloom: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gloom: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gloom, gloom: Wordnik
  7. gloom: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gloom: Wiktionary
  9. gloom: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gloom: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gloom: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gloom, gloom: Dictionary.com
  13. gloom: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gloom: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gloom (EP), Gloom (album), Gloom (card game), Gloom (disambiguation), Gloom (video game), Gloom: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gloom: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gloom: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gloom: Rhymezone
  19. gloom: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gloom: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gloom: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gloom: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gloom: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gloom: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. gloom: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gloom: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gloom: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gloom, gloom: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gloom: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.
noun:  A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
noun:  Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
noun:  A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.
verb:  (intransitive) To be dark or gloomy.
verb:  (intransitive) To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
verb:  (transitive) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
verb:  (transitive) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
verb:  To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

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