gloom

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

trevas

melancolia

pessimismo

tristeza

indolência

langor

pesar

entristecer

obscuridade

tornar sombrio

apatia

penumbra

consternação

escuridão

estupefação

Sinônimos

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

Traduções

oscurità

Trübsinn

Melancholie

Schwermut

oscuridad

mélancolie

Dunkelheit

tristesse

buio

tristezza

Düsterheit

obscurité

droefgeestigheid

Finsternis

Dunkel

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɡluːm/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: *gloom

Herdado de inglês arcaico: glōm

Cognato com norueguês: glom

Cognato com scots: 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”).