Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gloom
Participle: gloomed
Gerund: glooming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | gloom |
| you | gloom |
| he;she;it | glooms |
| we | gloom |
| you | gloom |
| they | gloom |
Perfect
| I | have gloomed |
| you | have gloomed |
| he;she;it | has gloomed |
| we | have gloomed |
| you | have gloomed |
| they | have gloomed |
Past
| I | gloomed |
| you | gloomed |
| he;she;it | gloomed |
| we | gloomed |
| you | gloomed |
| they | gloomed |
Pluperfect
| I | had gloomed |
| you | had gloomed |
| he;she;it | had gloomed |
| we | had gloomed |
| you | had gloomed |
| they | had gloomed |
Future
| I | will gloom |
| you | will gloom |
| he;she;it | will gloom |
| we | will gloom |
| you | will gloom |
| they | will gloom |
Future Perfect
| I | will have gloomed |
| you | will have gloomed |
| he;she;it | will have gloomed |
| we | will have gloomed |
| you | will have gloomed |
| they | will have gloomed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gloom |
| you | gloom |
| he;she;it | gloom |
| we | gloom |
| you | gloom |
| they | gloom |
Perfect
| I | have gloomed |
| you | have gloomed |
| he;she;it | have gloomed |
| we | have gloomed |
| you | have gloomed |
| they | have gloomed |
Imperfect
| I | gloomed |
| you | gloomed |
| he;she;it | gloomed |
| we | gloomed |
| you | gloomed |
| they | gloomed |
Pluperfect
| I | had gloomed |
| you | had gloomed |
| he;she;it | had gloomed |
| we | had gloomed |
| you | had gloomed |
| they | had gloomed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gloom |
| you | would gloom |
| he;she;it | would gloom |
| we | would gloom |
| you | would gloom |
| they | would gloom |
Perfect
| I | would have gloomed |
| you | would have gloomed |
| he;she;it | would have gloomed |
| we | would have gloomed |
| you | would have gloomed |
| they | would have gloomed |
Imperative
| you | gloom |
| we | Let's gloom |
| you | gloom |
Verbs conjugated like 'gloom'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'gloom'
bloom,
cloom,
gloam,
glom,
gloop,
groom,
loom,
sloom,
begloom,
blood,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1300 as a verb, "to look sullen or displeased," perhaps from Scand. (cf. Norw. dial. glome "to stare somberly"); the noun is 1596 in Scottish, "sullen look," from the verb. Sense of "darkness, obscurity" is first recorded 1629 in Milton's poetry; that of "melancholy" is 1744 (gloomy in this sense is attested from 1590). Gloomy Gus used in a general sense of "sullen person" since 1940s, from a comic strip character of that name first recorded 1904.
2. 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”).
Sample Sentences
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Here, while the proud their long drawn pomps diſplay, / There the black gibbet glooms beſide the way. [1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC, page 17:]
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Around all the dark forest gloomed. [1891, Charles Egbert Craddock [pseudonym; Mary Noailles Murfree], In the "Stranger People's" Country, New York: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 323:]
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Her face gathers, furrows, glooms; arching eyebrows wrinkle into horizontals, and a tinge of bitterness unsmooths the cheek and robs the lip of sweetened grace. She is evidently perturbed. [1882, W. Marshall, Strange Chapman: A North of England Story, volume 2, London: Hurst and Blackett, →OCLC, page 170:]
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Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something. [a. 1930, D. H. Lawrence, The Lovely Lady:]
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"Is Maggie then astonishing too?"—and he gloomed out of his window. [1904 November 10, Henry James, chapter XVI, in The Golden Bowl, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, 1st book (The Prince), 3rd part, page 283:]
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He gloomed for some moments above the round-topped table[.] [1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 85:]
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A black yew gloom'd the stagnant air. [1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Letters”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 115:]
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For see you not, dear love, / Such a mood as that, which lately gloom'd / Your fancy when you saw me following you, / Must make me fear still more you are not mine, […] [1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 110:]
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Good Heaven! What ſorrows gloom'd that parting day, / That called them from their native walks away; […] [1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC, page 20:]