“gloom”

Definitions

• noun

  a state of partial or total darkness

  Synonyms: somberness, sombreness, adumbrate, becloud, bedarken, bedim, begloom, black, blacken, blackness, bleakness, blues

  • Example:“He struck a match to dispel the gloom.”

• noun

  a feeling of melancholy apprehension

  Synonyms: gloominess, somberness, sombreness

• noun

  an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

  Synonyms: gloominess, glumness

  • Example:“Gloom pervaded the office.”