Synonyms for Gloomy | WordToolSet

Synonyms for "gloomy" (259 found)

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Closest matches (52)

Adjective(11 words)

dark depressed dreary grim bleakbleak outlookblue brumaldark styledarker colordarkling

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

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cirrous cloud-flecked clouded cloudy cold crabbed crabby crestfallen cumuliform cumulous cynical darkdark and gloomydefeatist dejected depressant depressed depressing depressive

Noun(2 words)

brooding daricon

Strong matches (78)

desolate despairing despondent dim dire dirty disconsolate discouraging disheartening dismal dispirited dispiriting distressed doleful doomful dour down downbeat downcast downhearted

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drab drear drearisome dreary dull dun dusk dusky evil evil-starred fateful foreboding forlorn funebrial funereal gloomful glooming glum grave gray grey grim heavy

Adjective(28 words)

dim dingy disconsolate disheartened dismaldismal weatherdispirited downdown in the mouthdowncast downhearted drab drear drearier dreariest drizzly duskiest dysphoric ebon gloomful

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glooming glummer glummestgothic livesgothic musicgothic wato designgothic wato mythgothic wato narrative

Noun(7 words)

feeling blueglowering goth gothicgothic lifgothic stylegothic tungō

Related words (129)

hopeless hurt ill ill-boding ill-fated ill-lighted ill-lit ill-natured ill-omened ill-starredin the doldrumsinauspicious inky joyless leaden lenticularis livid lowering lugubrious mammatus

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Adjective(28 words)

lonesome low low-spirited melancholic moodier mournfulnegative moodnorwegian regnoppressive regimepessimistic plutonian rainy sepulchralsepulchral atmospheresepulchral toneshadowy sombersomber moodsombre sorry

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sulkier sulky sullenest sunless swarthiest tartarean tenebrific tragic

Noun(11 words)

melagra mopingmore dismalmore gothicmost dismalmost gothic watonegative affectovercastingportuguese ominosoraven sepulchering

Adverb(1 words)

more gothic wato

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

11 entries

aesthetic qualityaffective qualityattribute descriptoremotional stateforecast descriptormood descriptoroutlook qualityquality style tone

More specific

8 entries

bleak forecastdespondent drearygrim projectionmelancholic sombersomber tonetragic tone

Collocations

6 entries

gloomy atmospheregloomy forecastgloomy moodgloomy outlookgloomy tonegloomy weather

Inflections

2 entries

gloomier gloomiest

Derivations

2 entries

gloomily gloominess

similar

5 entries

cheerless dark dejected depressing uncheerful

Sample sentences

19 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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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