Chapter Glint to Gloomy of G by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

A bow window . . . gloomed with limes.

Walpole.

A black yew gloomed the stagnant air.

Tennyson.

2. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.

Such a mood as that which lately gloomed
Your fancy.

Tennison.

What sorrows gloomed that parting day.

Goldsmith.

Gloomily
(Gloom"i*ly) adv. In a gloomy manner.

Gloominess
(Gloom"i*ness), n. State of being gloomy. Addison.

Glooming
(Gloom"ing), n. [Cf. Gloaming.] Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.

When the faint glooming in the sky
First lightened into day.

Trench.

The balmy glooming, crescent-lit.

Tennyson.

Gloomth
(Gloomth) n. Gloom. [R.] Walpole.

Gloomy
(Gloom"y) a. [Compar. Gloomier ; superl. Gloomiest.]

1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton.

2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.

Syn. — Dark; dim; dusky; dismal; cloudy; moody; sullen; morose; melancholy; sad; downcast; depressed; dejected; disheartened.