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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blackness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness |
| Synonyms: | dark, gloom, nightfall, dimness, duskiness, murkiness, total darkness |
| Antonyms: | light, lightness |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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