All gloom synonyms
gloom
G g noun gloom
- grief β keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
- sadness β affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful: to feel sad because a close friend has moved away.
- despair β Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
- misery β wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
- woe β grievous distress, affliction, or trouble: His woe was almost beyond description.
- discouragement β an act or instance of discouraging.
- anguish β Anguish is great mental suffering or physical pain.
- horror β an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear: to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror.
- shadow β a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- cloud β A cloud is a mass of water vapour that floats in the sky. Clouds are usually white or grey in colour.
- doldrums β A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks β so called by sailors.
- malaise β a condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort, often marking the onset of a disease.
- foreboding β a prediction; portent.
- sorrow β distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
- pessimism β the tendency to see, anticipate, or emphasize only bad or undesirable outcomes, results, conditions, problems, etc.: His pessimism about the future of our country depresses me.
- bitterness β having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
- weariness β physically or mentally exhausted by hard work, exertion, strain, etc.; fatigued; tired: weary eyes; a weary brain.
- distress β great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- down-hearted β dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- blues β a feeling of depression or deep unhappiness
- unhappiness β sad; miserable; wretched: Why is she so unhappy?
- heaviness β of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
- dullness β not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
- oppression β the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
- dejection β Dejection is a feeling of sadness that you get, for example, when you have just been disappointed by something.
- chagrin β Chagrin is a feeling of disappointment, upset, or annoyance, perhaps because of your own failure.
- desolation β Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness.
- despondency β Despondency is a strong feeling of unhappiness caused by difficulties which you feel you cannot overcome.
- misgiving β Often, misgivings. a feeling of doubt, distrust, or apprehension.
- dumps β an accumulation of discarded garbage, refuse, etc.
- dolor β sorrow; grief.
- vexation β the act of vexing.
- mopes β to be sunk in dejection or listless apathy; sulk; brood.
- catatonia β a state of muscular rigidity and stupor, sometimes found in schizophrenia
- cheerless β Cheerless places or weather are dull and depressing.
- pensiveness β dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood.
- morbidity β a morbid state or quality.
- duskiness β somewhat dark; having little light; dim; shadowy.
- murk β darkness; gloom: the murk of a foggy night.
- obscurity β the state or quality of being obscure.
- dusk β the state or period of partial darkness between day and night; the dark part of twilight.
- murkiness β dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
- shade β the comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area.
- dimness β not bright; obscure from lack of light or emitted light: a dim room; a dim flashlight.
- cloudiness β full of or overcast by clouds: a cloudy sky.
- twilight β the soft, diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, either from daybreak to sunrise or, more commonly, from sunset to nightfall.
- bleakness β bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
- gloominess β dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.