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

The weather of the world remained fair, and the wind held in the west, but nothing could waft away the glooms and the sad mists that clung about the Mountains of Shadow; and behind them at whiles great smokes would arise and hover in the upper winds.

From Literature

‘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

Day was coming again in the world outside, and far beyond the glooms of Mordor the Sun was climbing over the eastern rim of Middle-earth; but here all was still dark as night.

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