Synonyms for gloom
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1. gloom

   Synonyms:
   blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, dusk, gloominess, obscurity, shade, shadow

   Antonyms:
   blaze, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glare, gleam, gleaming, glimmer, glistening, glistering, glitter, glow, illumination, incandescence, light, luster, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, shine, shining, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling

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1. gloom

   Synonyms:
   gloaming, twilight, obscurity, shadow, obscuration, dullness, cloudiness, cloud, dejection, sadness

   Antonyms:
   light, radiance, clearness, brightness, daylight

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gloom, somberness, sombrenessnoun

   a state of partial or total darkness

   "he struck a match to dispel the gloom"

   Synonyms:
   sombreness, graveness, gravity, glumness, gloominess, somberness, soberness, sobriety

2. gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombrenessnoun

   a feeling of melancholy apprehension

   Synonyms:
   sombreness, graveness, lugubriousness, gravity, glumness, gloominess, somberness, sadness, soberness, sobriety

3. gloom, gloominess, glumnessnoun

   an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

   "gloom pervaded the office"

   Synonyms:
   sombreness, lugubriousness, glumness, moroseness, gloominess, somberness, sadness, sullenness

Matched Categories

1. • Apprehension
   • Atmosphere
   • Melancholy
   • Semidarkness

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. gloomnoun

   Synonyms:
   obscurity, darkness, dimness, gloominess, cloud

2. gloomnoun

   Synonyms:
   sadness, dejection, depression, despondency, melancholy, heaviness of mind, low spirits

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1. gloomnoun

   Synonyms:
   gloominess, shadow, melancholy, depression, dejection, despondency

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1. List of paraphrases for "gloom":

   pessimism, darkness, sadness, dark

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1. List of known nicknames for "Gloom":

   Bent Stamnes

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How to use gloom in a sentence?

1. Tim Persico:

   We are not afraid of these polling numbers, they are not gloom and doom ; they show a clear pathway to keeping White House. We have to be very clear about what the numbers say : We have incredible strengths. The Republicans have incredible weaknesses.

2. Maurice Maeterlinck:

   Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

3. Herodotus:

   Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. -- The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service

4. Book of Consolation:

   The pain and suffering of this world are only the images of gloom, and they are only real in the moment when the spark identifies itself with the shell of darkness. - Book of Consolation, 8.15

5. Stephen Innes:

   It's not economic uncertainty we should be worried about rather its the doom and gloom economic realities that the key forward-looking manufacturing PMI's are telling us about the dismal health of this rapidly deteriorating global macro environment.