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gloom - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: gloom
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: melancholy, depression
Synonyms: anguish, bitterness, blue devils, blue funk, blues*, chagrin, dejection, desolation, despair, despondency, discouragement, distress, doldrums, dolor, dullness, dumps*, foreboding, grief, heaviness, horror, malaise, misery, misgiving, mourning, oppression, pessimism, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, vexation, weariness, woe, catatonia, cheerlessness, disconsolateness, dismals, downheartedness, heavy-heartedness, low spirits, mopes, morbidity, pensiveness, saturninity
Antonyms: animation, cheer, encouragement, happiness, joy, sparkle, contentedness, vivaciousness
Main Entry: gloom
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: darkness, blackness
Synonyms: cloud, dullness, dusk, murk, obscurity, shade, shadow, twilight, bleakness, cloudiness, dimness, duskiness, gloominess, murkiness
Antonyms: brightness, light, sunniness
Main Entry: blues
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: depression
Synonyms: dejection, despondency, doldrums, dumps*, gloom, heavy heart*, melancholy, sadness, unhappiness, gloominess, glumness, low spirits, moodiness, mournfulness, the dismals, the mopes
Antonyms: euphoria, gaiety, gladness, happiness
Main Entry: brood
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: agonize over
Synonyms: be in brown study, bleed, chafe inwardly, consider, daydream, deliberate, despond, dream, dwell upon, eat one's heart out, fret, gloom, grieve, lament, languish, meditate, mope, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, repine, ruminate, sigh, speculate, stew over, sulk, sweat out*, sweat over, think about, think upon, worry
Antonyms: not worry
Main Entry: despair
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: depression, hopelessness
Synonyms: anguish, dejection, desperation, despondency, discouragement, gloom, melancholy, misery, ordeal, pain, sorrow, trial, tribulation, wretchedness, dashed hopes, disheartenment, forlornness
Antonyms: cheer, cheerfulness, confidence, faith, happiness, joy, trust, hopefulness, joyfulness
Main Entry: doldrums
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: depression
Synonyms: apathy, blue funk, blues*, boredom, bummer*, dejection, downer, dullness, dumps*, ennui, funk*, gloom, indifference, inertia, lassitude, letdown, listlessness, malaise, slump, stagnation, stupor, tedium, torpor, yawn*, black mood, blahs, disinterest, dismals, inactivity, mopes
Antonyms: elation, gladness, glee, happiness, joy
Main Entry: dumps
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: depression
Synonyms: blues*, bummer, doldrums, gloom, melancholy, trouble, unhappiness, blahs, cheerlessness, dreariness, gloominess, low spirits, sulks, the blues, woefulness
Main Entry: dusk
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: early evening
Synonyms: dark, gloom, night, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight, dimday, dimmet, eventide, gloaming
Antonyms: dawn
Main Entry: funk
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fear, depression
Synonyms: alarm, despondency, fright, gloom, misery, panic, cold sweat, trembling
Antonyms: happiness, joy
Main Entry: glower
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: frown
Synonyms: glare, gloom, look, lower, scowl, stare, sulk, watch, look daggers
Antonyms: grin, smile
Main Entry: grief
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mental suffering
Synonyms: affliction, agony, anguish, bereavement, care, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, disquiet, distress, dole, dolor, gloom, grievance, harassment, heartache, heartbreak, lamenting, malaise, melancholy, misery, mortification, mourning, pain, purgatory, regret, remorse, rue, sadness, sorrow, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, vexation, woe, worry, wretchedness, bemoaning, bewailing, deploring, infelicity, lamentation, mournfulness, repining
Antonyms: delight, ecstasy, exhilaration, happiness
Main Entry: melancholy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: depression, sadness
Synonyms: blue devils, blue funk, blues*, boredom, bummer*, dejection, despair, desperation, despondency, dolor, downer*, dumps, ennui, funk, gloom, grief, letdown, misery, sorrow, tedium, unhappiness, woe, wretchedness, blahs, dismals, dolefuls, down trip, gloominess, low spirits, miserableness, mopes, mournfulness, pensiveness, wistfulness
Antonyms: cheer, happiness, joy
Main Entry: murk
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: darkness
Synonyms: dusk, gloom, dimness, murkiness
Main Entry: night
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: part of day after sundown and before sunrise
Synonyms: bedtime, black*, blackness, dark, darkness, dim, evening, gloom, midnight, nightfall, nighttime, obscurity*, twilight, witching hour*, after dark, after hours, before dawn, dark hours, dead of night, dusk to dawn, duskiness, eventide, nighttide, pitch dark
Antonyms: day
Main Entry: obscure
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: conceal, hide
Synonyms: adumbrate, becloud, bedim, belie, blear, blind, block, block out, blur, camouflage, cloak, cloud, con, confuse, cover, darken, dim, disguise, double-talk*, eclipse, equivocate, falsify, fog, fuzz, gloom, gray, haze, mask, misrepresent, mist, muddy, murk, obfuscate, overcast, overshadow, screen, shade, shadow, shroud, stonewall*, veil, wrap, befog, cloud the issue, cover up, muddy the waters, overcloud, pettifog, throw up smoke screen
Antonyms: illuminate, loose, reveal
Main Entry: pessimism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: belief in bad outcome
Synonyms: cynicism, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, distrust, gloom, grief, melancholy, sadness, unhappiness, dark side, dim view, dyspepsia, expectation of worst, gloominess, gloomy outlook, glumness, hopelessness, low spirits
Antonyms: confidence, optimism, trust
Main Entry: scowl
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: frown
Synonyms: disapprove, glare, gloom, glower, grimace, lower, look daggers at, lour, make a face
Antonyms: grin, smile
Main Entry: sulk
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pout
Synonyms: brood, frown, gloom, glower, gripe, grouse, grump*, lower, moon*, mope*, scowl, take on, be down in the mouth, be in a huff, be morose, be out of sorts, be silent, look sullen
Antonyms: grin, smile, be happy
Main Entry: woe
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: suffering
Synonyms: adversity, affliction, agony, anguish, blues*, burden, calamity, care, cataclysm, catastrophe, curse, dejection, depression, disaster, distress, dole, drag, gloom, grief, hardship, headache*, heartache*, heartbreak, melancholy, misadventure, misery, misfortune, pain, rain*, regret, rue, sadness, sorrow, tragedy, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, wretchedness, bemoaning, deploring, grieving, lamentation
Antonyms: happiness, joy
Main Entry: blackness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: darkness
Synonyms: dark, gloom, nightfall, dimness, duskiness, murkiness, total darkness
Antonyms: light, lightness
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