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glooms

American  
[gloomz] / glumz /

plural noun

  1. Usually the glooms the blues; melancholy.


Etymology

Origin of glooms

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

Example Sentences

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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 • Apr. 7, 2016

Long-term ideas of “destiny” are not easily assimilated to shorter-term glooms about the loss of American power and prestige.

From Slate • Nov. 21, 2011

"Look what is happening to us," he glooms.

From Time Magazine Archive

But while a Tennessee Williams plumbs similar material to draw interior diagrams of crippled psyches, and a John Osborne casts about in it for new glooms and repeated angers.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien