different between gloom vs glome

English

Etymology

From Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English gl?m (“gloaming, twilight, darkness”), from Proto-West Germanic *gl?m, from Proto-Germanic *gl?maz (“gleam, shimmer, sheen”), from Proto-Indo-European *??ley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). The English word is cognate with Norwegian glom (“transparent membrane”), Scots gloam (“twilight; faint light; dull gleam”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?lu?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?lum/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Noun

gloom (usually uncountable, plural glooms)

1. Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 4, in Moonfleet:

     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.

2. A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
   • 1770, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents:

     A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.

4. A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.

Derived terms

• doom and gloom
• gloomies
• gloomily
• gloomy

Related terms

• gloam

Translations

Verb

gloom (third-person singular simple present glooms, present participle glooming, simple past and past participle gloomed)

1. (intransitive) To be dark or gloomy.
   • 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

     The black gibbet glooms beside the way.

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 189:

     Around all the dark forest gloomed.

2. (intransitive) To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
   • a. 1930, D. H. Lawrence, The Lovely Lady

     Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.
3. (transitive) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

   • A black yew gloom'd the stagnant air.

4. (transitive) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien

     Such a mood as that which lately gloomed your fancy.

   • 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

     What sorrows gloomed that parting day.

5. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l??m/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin glomus (“a ball”). Compare globe.

Noun

glome (plural glomes)

1. (anatomy) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
2. (botany) A globular head of flowers.
3. (geometry) A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere.

Etymology 2

Verb

glome (third-person singular simple present glomes, present participle gloming, simple past and past participle glomed)

1. (obsolete) To look gloomy, morose, or sullen.
   • a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Praise of Mean and Constant Estate

     Not with loathsome muck as a den unclean,
     Nor palace like, whereat disdain may glome

Noun

glome

1. (obsolete) gloom

Anagrams

• Gomel, golem