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.