Gloomy

//ˈɡluːmi//

Synonyms for "gloomy" (326 found)

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Closest matches (66)

disconsolate gloomful acheronian acherontic apocalyptic bad baleful baneful black bleak blue bodeful boding broken-hearted caliginous cassandra-like cassandran cassandrian castellatus cheerless

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cimmerian cirrose cirrous cloud-flecked clouded cloudy cold crabbed crabby crestfallen cumuliform cumulous cynical dark dark and gloomy defeatist dejected depressant depressed

Adjective(25 words)

dark dull somber sunless atrabiliary atrabilious bleak blear blitheless blue bummed out caliginous chapfallen cheerless chopfallen cimmerian clouded comfortless crepuscular crestfallen

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cut up damp darkling darksome dejected

Adjective(2 words)

blue dark

Strong matches (97)

Related words (163)

Adjective(72 words)

heartsore heavy-hearted humorless inconsolable infelicitous jawfallen jokeless joyless lachrymose lack-laughter lamentful leaden lightless low low-spirited lugubrious lumpish maudlin melancholic melancholy

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heavy hopeless hurt ill ill-boding ill-fated ill-lighted ill-lit ill-natured ill-omened ill-starred in the doldrums inauspicious inky joyless lenticularis livid lowering lugubrious mammatus

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Adjective(4 words)

low low-spirited sorry sulky

Related word relations

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5 relation types

Synonyms

3 entries

disconsolate down in mouth gloomful

derived

11 entries

doomy and gloomy gloomies gloomily gloominess gloomy Gus gloomy goose gloomy octopus gloomyish look on the gloomy side overgloomy ungloomy

derived from

1 entries

gloom

related to

6 entries

darkness dejected dim gloom illuminate melancholy

similar

5 entries

cheerless dark dejected depressing uncheerful

Translations

191 translations across 43 languages.

Albanian

2 entries

errët adj (imperfectly illuminated)
zymtë adj (imperfectly illuminated)

Ancient Greek

2 entries

σκυθρωπός adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
ἐρεμνός adj (imperfectly illuminated)

Arabic

2 entries

كَئِيب adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
مُوحِش adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Armenian

3 entries

աղոտ adj (imperfectly illuminated)
մթին adj (imperfectly illuminated)
մռայլ adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Belarusian

3 entries

змро́чны adj (imperfectly illuminated)
змро́чны adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
цёмны adj (imperfectly illuminated)

Bulgarian

4 entries

меланхоли́чен adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
мра́чен adj (imperfectly illuminated)
тъ́мен adj (imperfectly illuminated)
уни́л adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Catalan

4 entries

llòbrec adj (imperfectly illuminated)
ombriu adj (imperfectly illuminated)
ombriu adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
ombrívol adj (imperfectly illuminated)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

陰沉 /阴沉 adj (imperfectly illuminated)
陰沉 /阴沉 adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
陰鬱 /阴郁 adj (imperfectly illuminated)
陰鬱 /阴郁 adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Czech

4 entries

pochmurný adj (imperfectly illuminated)
pochmurný adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
sklíčený adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
temný adj (imperfectly illuminated)

Danish

2 entries

dunkel adj (imperfectly illuminated)
dyster adj (imperfectly illuminated)

Dutch

4 entries

benauwd adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
donker adj (imperfectly illuminated)
duister adj (imperfectly illuminated)
melancholisch adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Esperanto

1 entries

morna adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Finnish

4 entries

ankea adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
hämyinen adj (imperfectly illuminated)
hämärä adj (imperfectly illuminated)
iloton adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

French

4 entries

lugubre adj (imperfectly illuminated)
lugubre adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
maussade adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
morne adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Galician

4 entries

avesío adj (imperfectly illuminated)
celobre adj (imperfectly illuminated)
escuro adj (imperfectly illuminated)
fusco adj (imperfectly illuminated)

Georgian

4 entries

გაუხარებელი adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
დამძიმებული adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
დაღვრემილი adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
მოღუშული adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

German

4 entries

betrübt adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
deprimiert adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
dunkel adj (imperfectly illuminated)
dunkel adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Hebrew

2 entries

אפל adj (imperfectly illuminated)
קודר adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Hungarian

4 entries

homályos adj (imperfectly illuminated)
melankolikus adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
mélabús adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
rosszkedvű adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Icelandic

1 entries

þungbúinn adj (imperfectly illuminated)

Irish

4 entries

doilbhir adj (imperfectly illuminated)
duairc adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
duibheagánach adj (imperfectly illuminated)
gruama adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Italian

4 entries

cupo adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
lugubre adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
tetro adj (imperfectly illuminated)
uggioso adj (imperfectly illuminated)

Japanese

4 entries

暗い adj (imperfectly illuminated)
暗い adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
陰気な adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
陰鬱な adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Korean

1 entries

어두운 adj (imperfectly illuminated)

Latin

2 entries

nūbilus adj (imperfectly illuminated)
nūbilus adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Lithuanian

1 entries

niūrus adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Macedonian

4 entries

безра́досен adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
меланхо́личен adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
мра́чен adj (imperfectly illuminated)
мра́чен adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Māori

4 entries

hākerekere adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
hīnakipōuri adj (imperfectly illuminated)
kaurehu adj (imperfectly illuminated)
kaurehu adj (imperfectly illuminated)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

آجی adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

dunkel adj (imperfectly illuminated)

Polish

1 entries

mroczny adj (imperfectly illuminated)

Portuguese

4 entries

escuro adj (imperfectly illuminated)
lôbrego adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
lúgubre adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
melancólico adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Romanian

4 entries

lugubru adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
melancolic adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
sombru adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
tern adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Russian

4 entries

безотра́дный adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
безра́достный adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
мра́чный adj (imperfectly illuminated)
мра́чный adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Scots

3 entries

dreich adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
drumlie adj (imperfectly illuminated)
mirk adj (imperfectly illuminated)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries

ciar adj (imperfectly illuminated)
doilleir adj (imperfectly illuminated)
dubhach adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
gruamach adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

mráčan adj (imperfectly illuminated)
mráčan adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
sumoran adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
támān adj (imperfectly illuminated)

Slovak

4 entries

pochmúrny adj (imperfectly illuminated)
pochmúrny adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
ponurý adj (imperfectly illuminated)
pošmúrny adj (imperfectly illuminated)

Slovene

1 entries

otožen adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Spanish

4 entries

luctuoso adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
lóbrego adj (imperfectly illuminated)
lóbrego adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
lúgubre adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Swedish

1 entries

dyster adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)

Turkish

1 entries

kasvetli adj (imperfectly illuminated)

Ukrainian

3 entries

похму́рий adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
сумни́й adj (affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy)
те́мний adj (imperfectly illuminated)

Sample sentences

19 total sentences available.

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You look gloomy.

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I always feel gloomy.

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I got gloomy and thought of giving up.

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The sky is gloomy and gray - a typical rainy-season sky.

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