gloomnoun [ U ]
uk/ɡluːm/us/ɡluːm/gloom noun [ U ] (WITHOUT HOPE)
feelings of great unhappiness and loss of hope:
Bergman's films are often full of gloom and despair.
There is widespread gloom and doom about the company's future.
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Sadness and regret
- a heavy heart idiom
- be/weigh on your conscience idiom
- bitter
- bring a lump to/have a lump in your throat idiom
- broken-hearted
- gloomy
- guilt
- guilt complex
- guilt trip
- guilt-ridden
- guilt trip
- lament
- melancholy
- mourn
- repent
- rue
- rue the day idiom
- rueful
- sackcloth
- sad
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Not hopeful
gloom noun [ U ] (DARKNESS)
literary a situation in which it is nearly dark and difficult to see well:
She peered into the gloom, but she couldn't see where the noise was coming from.
A figure emerged from the gloom of the corridor.
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Darkness & becoming dark
- black
- black sth out
- blackness
- blackout
- dark
- darken
- deepen
- dingy
- draw
- draw in
- dull
- half-light
- inky
- moonless
- pitch-dark
- shade
- shady
- silhouette
- Stygian
- the gloaming
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