glooms

[ gloomz ]

/ glumz /

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plural noun

Usually the glooms . the blues; melancholy.

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Origin of glooms

First recorded in 1735–45; see origin at gloom, -s³

In those glooms the sinews of mental energy wither with dying hope.
Madame Roland, Makers of History|John S. C. Abbott
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