glooms

[ gloomz ]
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plural noun
  1. Usually the glooms . the blues; melancholy.

Origin of glooms

1
First recorded in1735–45; see origin at gloom, -s3

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How to use glooms in a sentence

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

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

    Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton Mackenzie
  • In ten minutes more he was in the spicy glooms of the spruce-woods.

    The Watchers of the Trails | Charles G. D. Roberts
  • The trees, lichened on their north sides, massed rank behind rank without betraying any face in their glooms.

    Lazarre | Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • But Fate can play the clown as well as the tragedian, and accomplish as much by an absurd accident as by elaborate glooms.

    What Will People Say? | Rupert Hughes