gloom

Other forms of gloom

plural

glooms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gloom

What does gloom mean?

gloom means "a state of partial or total darkness". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gloom?

gloom has 1 syllable: gloom. In IPA it is /ˈɡlum/.

What is another word for gloom?

Close synonyms include somberness, sombreness, gloominess, somberness, sombreness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gloom a common word?

gloom is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.