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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; 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

Up vistaed hopes I sped; And shot, precipitated, Adown Titanic glooms of chasm�d fears, From those strong Feet that followed, followed after.

From Time Magazine Archive

The range of Joseph Conrad's material, as of his splendid glooms and lucidities in storytelling, could scarcely be better shown than in this collection of eleven long and short tales.

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