All gloom synonyms
gloom
G g verb gloom
- befog β to surround with fog
- shrouded β a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- muddy the waters β If someone or something muddies the waters, they cause a situation or issue to seem less clear and less easy to understand.
- make a face β the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- louring β lowering.
- eat one's heart out β Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- sweat out β to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- overcloud β to overspread with or as if with clouds: a summer storm that briefly overclouds the sun; to overcloud one's pleasure with solemn thoughts.
- sulk β to remain silent or hold oneself aloof in a sullen, ill-humored, or offended mood: Promise me that you won't sulk if I want to leave the party early.
- graying β of a color between white and black; having a neutral hue.
- obscure β (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- bedim β to make dim or obscure
- blinding β A blinding light is extremely bright.
- hazing β an aggregation in the atmosphere of very fine, widely dispersed, solid or liquid particles, or both, giving the air an opalescent appearance that subdues colors.
- look daggers β to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- grousing β to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- lour β lower2 .
- glower β to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
- cover up β If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- blinded β unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- mull over β to study or ruminate; ponder.
- scowl β to draw down or contract the brows in a sullen, displeased, or angry manner.
- do a slow burn β If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
- brood β A brood is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother.
noun gloom
- blue funk β a state of great terror or loss of nerve
- heavy-hearted β sorrowful; melancholy; dejected.
- saturninity β sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
- darkness β the state or quality of being dark: The room was in total darkness.
- dreariness β causing sadness or gloom.
- blackness β Blackness is the state of being very dark.
- depression β A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
- melancholy β sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
- cheerlessness β The state or characteristic of being cheerless.
- disconsolateness β (uncountable) The state of being disconsolate; gloom.
- downheartedness β The characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.