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# gloom

«gloom» in Mova's school dictionary: **Darkness or near-darkness, as in a dim room or a dark wood** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (uncountable); verb (gloom — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Darkness or near-darkness, as in a dim room or a dark wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloom/#m1)

2) A feeling of sadness and hopelessness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloom/#m2)

3) (in phrases) «Doom and gloom» means talk that everything will go badly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloom/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it sets a dark, sad or scary mood: «in the gloom of the forest». It also describes how people feel after bad news. «All doom and gloom» is a common everyday phrase. Mole loses his way in the gloom of the Wild Wood as the snow falls.

### examples

- Mole stumbled through the gloom of the Wild Wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloom/#x1)
- We could hardly see in the gloom of the cellar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloom/#x2)
- A feeling of gloom fell over the team after the defeat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloom/#x3)
- Stop the doom and gloom; it's not that bad! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloom/#x4)
- Her smile lit up the gloom of the hospital ward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloom/#x5)
- The long winter gloom made everyone tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloom/#x6)
- Out of the gloom came the friendly light of Badger's door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloom/#x7)
- It came as the arrows went, leaving the island in gloom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloom/#x8)

### note

Uncountable: no «a», no plural. Adjective: gloomy; adverb: gloomily. Two meanings, darkness and sadness, often go together in stories.

### In the corpora

- [or look unto the earth, behold distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and outspread thick darkness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.184/)
- [For is there no gloom to her that was stedfast?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.185/)
- [They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.751/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gloom» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gloom/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.