Hi Is any of these expressions below used? give gloom give a gloom give a sense of gloom Say, I was sitting in a dark, quiet, and dilapidated place. I would feel depressed or gloomy. In such a case, can I say, "This place gives me gloom/a gloom/ or a sense of gloom"? Many thanks in advance.
Hello, jakartaman. Of all the options you suggest, I like "give a sense of gloom" the best. The other two look really odd to me. That said, I'd expect a fluent English-speaker to express the idea differently: This place is gloomy. That's enough to tell your listener that the place gives you a "sense of gloom". If you wanted to emphasize that the place makes you feel gloomy, you could also say that: This place makes me feel gloomy. What I like about "it gives me a sense of gloom" is that it reminds me of a more common phrase and so it sounds something like a pun: (Common phrase) This place gives me a sense of doom.
I don't hear "gloom" in speech very often, Jakartaman. When I hear people refer to the idea in conversation, they usually choose the adjective "gloomy".
