glooms

[ gloomz ]

plural noun

1. Usually the glooms. the blues; melancholy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of glooms¹

First recorded in 1735–45; gloom, -s ³

Example Sentences

In those glooms the sinews of mental energy wither with dying hope.

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Four weeks never dragged so endlessly, even in the glooms of Carlington Road under Nurse's rule.

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In ten minutes more he was in the spicy glooms of the spruce-woods.

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The trees, lichened on their north sides, massed rank behind rank without betraying any face in their glooms.

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But Fate can play the clown as well as the tragedian, and accomplish as much by an absurd accident as by elaborate glooms.

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