- present tense form of gloom (3rd person singular).
glooms
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of glooms
Example Sentences
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As in life the Glooms outweigh the Joys.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Strauss sees them all as so many Joys and Glooms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Glooms that go deep as thine I have not known: Moods of fantastic sadness, nothing worth.
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew
"But who is he, whose darken'd brow Glooms in the midst of general mirth?"
From Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt
A slip of paper invited: “Lift the roof of Gloomy House and see why the Glooms flee.”
From Peggy Parsons at Prep School by Sharp, Annabel
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