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Definition: GLOOMED |
GLOOMEDImperative & past participle1. Of Gloom |
Date "GLOOMED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
Crosswords: GLOOMED |
| Specialty definitions using "GLOOMED": JESTER. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it was to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances, the absurdity being attested by his motley costume. The king himself being attired with dignity, it took the world some centuries to discover that his own conduct and decrees were sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind. The jester was commonly called a fool, but the poets and romancers have ever delighted to represent him as a singularly wise and witty person. In the circus of to-day the melancholy ghost of the court fool effects the dejection of humbler audiences with the same jests wherewith in life he gloomed the marble hall, panged the patrician sense of humor and tapped the tank of royal tears. The widow-queen of Portugal Had an audacious jester Who entered the confessional Disguised, and there confessed her. "Father," she said, "thine ear bend down -- My sins are more than scarlet: I love my fool -- blaspheming clown, And common, base-born varlet." "Daughter," the mimic priest replied, "That sin, indeed, is awful: The church's pardon is denied To love that is unlawful. "But since thy stubborn heart will be For him forever pleading, Thou'dst better make him, by decree, A man of birth and breeding." She made the fool a duke, in hope With Heaven's taboo to palter; Then told a priest, who told the Pope, Who damned her from the altar! Barel Dort |
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| "GLOOMED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "GLOOMED" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Derivations | |
Words ending with "GLOOMED": begloomed. (additional references) | |
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"GLOOMED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: glomer, glooned, goomed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-l-m-o-o" | |
-1 letter: loomed. | |
-2 letters: gloom, golem, lodge, looed, model, mooed, ogled. | |
-3 letters: demo, doge, dole, dome, doom, geld, gled, glom, gold, good, lode, loge, logo, loom, meld, mode, mold, mole, mood, mool, ogle, oleo. | |
-4 letters: del, doe, dog, dol, dom, ego, eld, elm, ged, gel, gem, god, goo, led, leg, log, loo, med, meg, mel, mod. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-l-m-o-o" | |
+2 letters: begloomed. | |
+3 letters: demonology. | |
+4 letters: dermatology, homologated, homologized, methodology, moonlighted. | |
+5 letters: demonologies, demonologist, dermatologic, epidemiology, etymologised, etymologized, mythologized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 4C 4F 4F 4D 45 44 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-.. --- --- -- . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01001100 01001111 01001111 01001101 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G L O O M E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 004C 004F 004F 004D 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41464949473938 |
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