gloom — OET · Shobdo

gloom

noun

1 Sharpe peered into the gloom:

darkness, semi-darkness, dark, gloominess, dimness, blackness, murkiness, murk, shadows, shade, shadiness, obscurity;

dusk, twilight, gloaming;

rare tenebrosity.

▷antonyms light.

2 his gloom deepened:

despondency, depression, dejection, downheartedness, dispiritedness, heavy-heartedness, melancholy, melancholia, unhappiness, sadness, glumness, gloominess, low spirits, dolefulness, misery, sorrow, sorrowfulness, forlornness, woefulness, woe, wretchedness, lugubriousness, moroseness, mirthlessness, cheerlessness;

despair, pessimism, hopelessness, the slough of despond, negativity;

German Weltschmerz;

informal the blues, the dumps;

North American, informal the blahs;

rare mopery.

▷antonyms happiness.

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