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

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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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1. Historic Environment Scotland:

   Climate change is a really real present risk. The climate has already changed because of the influence of humans. And it's going to continue to change and that pace of change is going to speed up, so the risk to sites like Skara Brae and other sites around Orkney, it's real, it's here, it's happening. But it shouldn't all be doom and gloom and despair. There is an opportunity to still do something about it and to avoid the worst possible consequences of climate change.

2. Joseph Addison:

   Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

3. John F. Kennedy, Speech for the Dallas Trade Mart which was never delivered.:

   There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility.

4. Lisa Kott:

   Watching your child suffering when you're helpless is one of the worst things you can experience in life, i know that death is on the doorstop. I'm not going to let him in, and he's going to be waiting there for a very long time. The difference between us and any other family is that they don't see him at the doorstep. I see him, and in true Southern fashion, I will give him a glass of iced tea while he waits. Because we're still going to dance and have fun in the presence of all that. It's not going to be doom and gloom in our house.

5. Thomas Jefferson:

   My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.