glooms

American  

[gloomz] / glumz /

plural noun

1. Usually the glooms the blues; melancholy.

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Etymology

Origin of glooms

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

Example Sentences

Or maybe it is all we can absorb in the moment, given our atmosphere of sinister glooms, ambient and activated.

From Salon

Day was coming again in the world outside, and far beyond the glooms of Mordor the Sun was climbing over the eastern rim of Middle-earth; but here all was still dark as night.

From Literature

Perhaps this is just the last defiant cry of a defeated Imperial-sponsored bounty hunter, determined to give our hero the glooms about her chances of victory before departing this mortal coil.

From The Guardian

A bright patch of sunshine amidst winter glooms, They lighten our hearts in their marching costumes.

From New York Times

Will not my mother's soul then shrink from its glooms, and dread to meet the record of her actions?' 

From Project Gutenberg