gloomとは

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発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɡluːm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡlum/
• 韻: -uːm

名詞

gloom (usually uncountable, 複数形 glooms)

1. Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.

   the gloom of a forest, or of midnight

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 4, in Moonfleet:

     Here was a surprise, and a sad one for me, for I perceived that I had slept away a day, and that the sun was setting for another night. And yet it mattered little, for night or daytime there was no light to help me in this horrible place; and though my eyes had grown accustomed to the gloom, I could make out nothing to show me where to work.

2. A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.’”, in Men and Women […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], OCLC 1561924, stanza 19, page 142:

     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.
   • 1770, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents:

     A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.

4. A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.

派生語

• doom and gloom
• gloomies
• gloomily
• gloomy

関連する語

• gloam

動詞

gloom (三人称単数 現在形 glooms, 現在分詞 glooming, 過去形および過去分詞形 gloomed)

1. (intransitive) To be dark or gloomy.
   • 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

     The black gibbet glooms beside the way.

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 189:

     Around all the dark forest gloomed.

2. (intransitive) To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
   • 1882, W. Marshall, Strange Chapman, volume 2, page 170:

     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.

   • a. 1930, D. H. Lawrence, The Lovely Lady

     Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.

   • 1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl:

     "Is Maggie then astonishing too?"—and he gloomed out of his window.

   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 85:

     He gloomed for some moments above the round-topped table[.]

3. (transitive) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
   • 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Letters”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 1013215631, page 115: