gloom vs sport

gloom

verb
  • To be dark or gloomy. 

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

  • To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. 

  • To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent. 

  • To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. 

noun
  • Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. 

  • A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere. 

  • A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture. 

  • Darkness, dimness, or obscurity. 

sport

verb
  • To display; to have as a notable feature. 

  • To close (a door). 

  • To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with. 

  • To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. 

  • To amuse oneself, to play. 

  • To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races. 

  • To divert; to amuse; to make merry. 

  • To represent by any kind of play. 

noun
  • Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics. 

  • A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question) 

  • Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy. 

  • A sportsman; a gambler. 

  • One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes. 

  • A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship. 

  • A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery. 

  • Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing. 

  • Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport. 

  • A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects. 

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