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a mood with weather rights, free to occupy any sky or skull.
means A state of darkness, dimness, or low spirits — the heavy half-light of a sad or shadowed place or person.
from From Middle English 'gloumen' or 'glomen,' meaning to look sullen or frown, a verb older than the noun — people scowled before the word named the murk. It's related to Scots and dialect words for twilight and overcast skies, and is possibly a cousin of 'glum,' which grew from the same sullen root. Notably, Milton helped shift 'gloom' toward its modern sense of darkness in 'Paradise Lost,' so the word that began as a face eventually became the weather.
- old norse
- root means twilight, that dim almost-dark hour
- verb first
- originally meant to scowl, not to despair
- gloaming kin
- shares ancestry with dusk's softest word
- doom rhyme
- poets pair them because despair loves company
- weather report
- forecasters still call grey overcast skies gloomy
seattle weather pattern — seattle receives 152 rainy days per year, earning its reputation for persistent gray skies
britain winter months — london gets only 1.5 hours of daylight on winter solstice, creating months of darkness