Gloom vs Dread - What's the difference?
gloom | dread |
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.
To fear greatly.
To anticipate with fear.
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 22[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/22]
To be in dread, or great fear.
* Bible, Deuteronomy i. 29
Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
* Tillotson
* Shakespeare
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Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
* Bible, Genesis ix 2.
* Shakespeare
Somebody or something dreaded.
(obsolete) A person highly revered.
* Spenser
(obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
A Rastafarian.
(chiefly, in the plural) dreadlock
Terrible; greatly feared.
(archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.
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In lang=en terms the difference between gloom and dread
is that gloom is to fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen while dread is to be in dread, or great fear.As nouns the difference between gloom and dread
is that gloom is darkness, dimness or obscurity while dread is great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.As verbs the difference between gloom and dread
is that gloom is to be dark or gloomy while dread is to fear greatly.As an adjective dread is
terrible; greatly feared.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.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "gloom")dread
English
Verb
(en verb)- I'm dreading getting the results of the test, as it could decide my whole life.
- Day by day, hole by hole our bearing reins were shortened, and instead of looking forward with pleasure to having my harness put on as I used to do, I began to dread it.
- Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
Derived terms
* dreadable * dreadworthyNoun
(en noun)- the secret dread of divine displeasure
- the dread of something after death
- The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth.
- His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, / The attribute to awe and majesty, / Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.
- Una, his dear dread
- (Spenser)