Gloamed vs Gloomed - What's the difference?
gloamed | gloomed |
(gloom)
Darkness, dimness or obscurity.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
A melancholy, depressing or despondent atmosphere.
Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
* Burke
A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.
To be dark or gloomy.
* Goldsmith
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 189:
to look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
* D. H. Lawrence
To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
* Walpole
* Tennyson
To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
* Tennyson
* Goldsmith
To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
As verbs the difference between gloamed and gloomed
is that gloamed is past tense of gloam while gloomed is past tense of gloom.gloomed
English
Verb
(head)gloom
English
Noun
(-)- the gloom of a forest, or of midnight
- Here was a surprise, and a sad one for me, for I perceived that I had slept away a day, and that the sun was setting for another night. And yet it mattered little, for night or daytime there was no light to help me in this horrible place; and though my eyes had grown accustomed to the gloom , I could make out nothing to show me where to work.
- A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.
Derived terms
* doom and gloom * gloomily * (l) (humorous) * gloomyVerb
(en verb)- The black gibbet glooms beside the way.
- Around all the dark forest gloomed .
- Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.
- A bow window gloomed with limes.
- A black yew gloomed the stagnant air.
- Such a mood as that which lately gloomed your fancy.
- What sorrows gloomed that parting day.