Gloom

Definition

gloom / glu:m / n [U] ၁။ ေမွာင္ရီဖ်ဳိးဖ်ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ မႈန္မိႈင္းေနျခင္း။ In the gathering gloom it was hard to see anything distinctly. ၂။ ဝမ္းနည္းပူေဆြးျခင္း။ စိတ္ဓာတ္က်ျခင္း။ စိတ္အားငယ္ျခင္း။ The news cast a deep gloom over the whole community. ❍ He remained sunk in gloom for several days. ❏ gloomily /-Çli / adv ညိႇဳးငယ္စြာ။ စိတ္အားငယ္စြာ။ ❏ gloomy /'glu:mi / adj ( -ier, -iest ) ၁။ ေမွာင္ရိပ္ သန္းေသာ။ မႈန္မိႈင္းေနေသာ။ a gloomy corner/ passage/ room/ house ❍ a gloomy day (ie with dark clouds and dull light). ၂။ ဝမ္းနည္းပူေဆြးေသာ။ စိတ္ဓာတ္က်ေသာ။ သုန္မႈန္ေသာ။ စိတ္ပ်က္စရာ ေကာင္းေသာ။ a gloomy outlook/prospect ❍ a gloomy face/ expression/ voice/ person ❍ What are you so gloomy about? Cheer up!

Examples

1. A time of high unemployment and economic gloom
2. [gloom over/about] : There is general gloom about the future of the farming industry.
3. Harry peered into the gathering gloom.