glooms

[ gloomz ]

plural noun

1. Usually the glooms. the blues; melancholy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of glooms¹

First recorded in 1735–45; gloom, -s ³

Example Sentences

Or maybe it is all we can absorb in the moment, given our atmosphere of sinister glooms, ambient and activated.

From Salon

‘Wind is changing!’ he cried, and with that, in a twinkling as it seemed, he and his fellows had vanished into the glooms, never to be seen by any Rider of Rohan again.

From Literature

Perhaps this is just the last defiant cry of a defeated Imperial-sponsored bounty hunter, determined to give our hero the glooms about her chances of victory before departing this mortal coil.

From The Guardian

A bright patch of sunshine amidst winter glooms, They lighten our hearts in their marching costumes.

From New York Times

Will not my mother's soul then shrink from its glooms, and dread to meet the record of her actions?' 

From Project Gutenberg