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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

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. 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.

2. Barry Schwartz:

   It's not the apocalypse, it's not doom and gloom, and if it's not doom and gloom you can come out of the bunker and the first thing you do is take a sigh of relief and then you want to make money.

3. Alan Gayle:

   Markets began 2019 pricing in gloom and doom after major indexes fell ... in 2018. If the major risks facing the market, rising interest rates and a full-blown trade war, are avoided, equities can rally to new record highs, interest rate risks have clearly subsided, and trade negotiations appear to be moving closer to a resolution. These are very positive developments for stock markets.

4. Wafaa Bassiouni:

   We are happy the gloom has now lifted, but we hope for acquittal, not just release. Nothing he has done deserves those 14 months in prison.

5. Johann von Goethe:

   Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose