Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for glooms. Search instead for looms.

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

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

Joey's thin, sad face glooms out of the card's corner as if he felt the same way.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was given to euphoric grandeurs�he once threw a $50,000 party for some French theater people�and sadistic glooms.

From Time Magazine Archive

‘Wind is changing!’ he cried, and with that, in a twinkling as it seemed, he and his fellows had vanished into the glooms, never to be seen by any Rider of Rohan again.

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

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember "glooms" for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com