Gloom Synonyms and Antonyms

glo͝om
Heavy shade
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. shadow
  2. murk
  3. dimness
  4. somberness
  5. dark
  6. umbrageousness
  7. sombreness
Antonyms:
  1. light
  2. brightness
  3. sunniness
Heavy spirits
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. dejection
  2. depression
  3. despondency
  4. melancholy
  5. melancholia
  6. sadness
  7. doldrums
  8. morbidity
  9. pessimism
  10. woe
  11. blues
  12. dullness
  13. misery
  14. sorrow
  15. pensiveness
  16. hypochondriasis
  17. despondence
  18. catatonia
  19. dolor
  20. malaise
  21. vexation
  22. foreboding
  23. low spirits
  24. dolefulness
  25. cheerlessness
  26. heaviness of mind
  27. weariness
  28. downheartedness
  29. apprehension
  30. misgiving
  31. dumps
  32. distress
  33. disconsolation
  34. affliction
  35. despair
  36. dysphoria
  37. oppression
  38. anguish
  39. funk
  40. grief
  41. horror
  42. gloominess
  43. glumness
  44. mourning
  45. bitterness
  46. megrims
  47. mortification
  48. heavy-heartedness
  49. chagrin
  50. discouragement
  51. disconsolateness
  52. the blues
  53. the dumps
  54. mope
  55. the doldrums
  56. blue-funk
  57. mournfulness
  58. morosity
  59. unhappiness
  60. saturninity
  61. shadow
  62. unsociability
Antonyms:
  1. happiness
  2. optimism
  3. gaiety

Words Related to Gloom

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Gloom Sentence Examples

  • The news of his death cast a gloom over the whole empire.

  • The gloom was terrible.

  • His gloom had been increased by domestic misfortune.

  • He now made up his mind to study the real wilderness in its gloom and vastness, and to meet face to face the dusky warriors of the Stone Age.

  • It was no longer, as before, a dark, unseen river flowing through the gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm.

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