gloom

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (uncountable, usually) Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.
2. (uncountable, usually) A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
3. (uncountable, usually) Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
4. (uncountable, usually) A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To be dark or gloomy.
2. (intransitive) To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
3. (transitive) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
4. (transitive) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
5. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

Concetti

oscurità

buio

tristezza

tetraggine

infelicità

mestizia

squallore

abbattimento

uggia

apatia

malinconia

scuro

sinonimi

darkness

melancholy

depression

gloominess

sadness

dejection

shadow

dark

sorrow

somberness

sombreness

unhappiness

grief

shade

obscurity

gloomy

dimness

dusk

murk

despondence

despondency

sad

☹️

despair

glumness

hopelessness

blackness

melancholia

twilight

lifelessness

sullenness

pessimism

moodiness

mopes

night

🌃

pensiveness

regret

sale

scowl

sorrowfulness

subtraction

tragedy

tristesse

trouble

unfriendliness

weakness

weariness

worry

total darkness

business recession

deep contemplation

Traduzioni

Trübsinn

Melancholie

oscuridad

Schwermut

Dunkelheit

tristesse

mélancolie

droefgeestigheid

trevas

Düsterheit

obscurité

melancholie

Finsternis

Dunkel

abattement

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ɡluːm/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: *gloom

Ereditato da inglese antico: glōm

Affine norvegese: glom

Affine scozzese: gloam

In summary

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”).