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verb

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as in to glare
to look with anger or disapproval we just sat there, glooming, as we waited and waited for our dinners to arrive

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as in to darken
to take on a gloomy or forbidding look he continued to gloom over the fact that he had been passed over for promotion to district manager

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Recent Examples of gloom
Noun
People are always wanting to talk about the doom and gloom of cinema being dead. Zac Ntim, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2024 Every phone call brings a new boatload of doom, gloom and worries. R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024
Verb
But, there is still gloom ahead for economies in the region. Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022 Our imperviousness to gloom is our own peculiar virtue. Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2022 See all Example Sentences for gloom 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gloom
Noun
  • Zion finishes off the standard base trailer with a set of four bed lights for easily rummaging through cargo after dark and a rocker switch panel for those lights and available auxiliary and rock lights.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Julia wants to explore; Randall has a bad feeling, and insists on going back to the van and getting home before dark.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • On both deterrence and defense spending, by contrast, the Trump administration could be poised to address glaring vulnerabilities from the start.
    Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
  • With glaring sunshine, moderate temperatures, cool nights, and strong ocean breezes, Sta.
    Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • The experience of being a Black foreigner in a country governed by its racial gradients darkened his view of Kenya.
    Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
  • If artificial intelligence could be used to brighten a person’s mood, it could probably be used for darkening a person’s personality, too.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Musk has spoken openly in the past about his use of prescription Ketamine, an anesthetic that has gained interest from doctors and researchers for its potential to treat depression and anxiety.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Depression High added sugar intake can lead to fluctuations in blood sugar levels, resulting in mood swings, irritability, and fatigue, which may worsen feelings of depression.
    Lauren Panoff, MPH, RD, Verywell Health, 4 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • The traditional media business has been staring at these multiple roads for years now, and none of them are anywhere near as bucolic as Frost’s woods.
    Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • By then, after so many years staring at a sideways world, everything had started to appear off-kilter.
    Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • What Wyler is frowning about, past this threat to her own ambition — that’s less coherent.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
  • In all three cases, Google is fighting desperately to avoid being broken up as a monopoly, and judges have frowned deeply upon its handling of evidence.
    Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • To say more about the plot would spoil the film too much, but Ryder is really a chameleon, flickering between quiet melancholy, genuine affection, and darker, more selfish concerns, and the rotoscoping art style accentuates the expressiveness of her face.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024
  • At 78, Ferry reigns as the elder statesman of rock-star romantics, the king of elegant melancholy.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Finally, with a twist of the ambient magnetic field, tiny tornadoes swirl into existence, pirouetting in the darkness.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Highway 59 from Watts to West Siloam Springs was shrouded in darkness after the storm passed.
    Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 4 Nov. 2024

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“Gloom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gloom. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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