glooms

American  

[gloomz] / glumz /

plural noun

1. Usually the glooms the blues; melancholy.

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Etymology

Origin of glooms

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

Example Sentences

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 • Apr. 7, 2016

Long-term ideas of “destiny” are not easily assimilated to shorter-term glooms about the loss of American power and prestige.

From Slate • Nov. 21, 2011

The energy crisis glooms over us all, as does the memory of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war that led to the closing of the canal and the rerouting of shipping round Africa.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was given to euphoric grandeurs�he once threw a $50,000 party for some French theater people�and sadistic glooms.

From Time Magazine Archive

‘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 "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien