gloom

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɡluːm/    美 /ɡlum/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Darkness, dimness, or obscurity. uncountable,usually
    — the gloom of a forest, or of midnight
  2. A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere. uncountable,usually
    — A sudden little river crossed my path / As unexpected as a serpent comes. / No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms— / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof—to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.
  3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. uncountable,usually
    — A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.
  4. A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture. uncountable,usually
动词 v.
  1. To be dark or gloomy. intransitive
    — Here, while the proud their long drawn pomps diſplay, / There the black gibbet glooms beſide the way.
  2. To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent. intransitive
    — Her face gathers, furrows, glooms; arching eyebrows wrinkle into horizontals, and a tinge of bitterness unsmooths the cheek and robs the lip of sweetened grace. She is evidently perturbed.
  3. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. transitive
    — A black yew gloom'd the stagnant air.
  4. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. transitive
    — For see you not, dear love, / Such a mood as that, which lately gloom'd / Your fancy when you saw me following you, / Must make me fear still more you are not mine, […]
  5. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

词形变化

glooms plural glooms present,singular,third-person glooming participle,present gloomed participle,past gloomed past

词汇关系

衍生词
begloom doom and gloom engloom gloomcore gloomful gloomies gloomily gloomish gloomleader gloomless gloomsome gloomster gloomth gloomward gloomy June gloom outgloom overgloom semigloom undergloom ungloomed
相关词
gloam

词源

词源 1
From Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight, darkness”), from Proto-West Germanic *glōm, from Proto-Germanic *glōmaz (“gleam, shimmer, sheen”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). The English word is cognate with Norwegian glom (“transparent membrane”), Scots gloam (“twilight; faint light; dull gleam”).
词源 2
From Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight, darkness”), from Proto-West Germanic *glōm, from Proto-Germanic *glōmaz (“gleam, shimmer, sheen”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). The English word is cognate with Norwegian glom (“transparent membrane”), Scots gloam (“twilight; faint light; dull gleam”).
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