What are the opposite words for gloomy?
Gloomy means something that is dark or dismal. Its antonyms can be cheerful, bright, sunny, lively, and optimistic. If someone is cheerful, they are full of positive energy and bring happiness wherever they go. Bright illuminates everything and drives away darkness. Sunniness brings warmth and light in life. Lively is another antonym of gloomy, which means full of energy and activity. Finally, optimistic is an attitude of hopefulness towards life. It is crucial to use these positive antonyms for gloomy to lift the spirits when someone is feeling down or when describing something that is not depressing or hopeless.
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- gay
- lively
- cheerful
- light
- white
- blue
- hopeful
- bright
- black
- pleasant
- joyful
- clean
- amiable
- cloudy
- fresh
- gleaming
- gloomy
- glowing
- good-humored
- happy
- humorous
- jovial
- lightheaded
- perky
- radiant
- sanguine
- shimmering
- shining
- sparkling
- upbeat
- vivid
- beaming
- bleak
- breezy
- brilliant
- buoyant
- convivial
- festive
- funny
- genial
- glimmering
- glinting
- glorious
- glossy
- illuminated
- incandescent
- jocular
- jolly
- lucid
- merry
- optimistic
- resplendent
- showy
- silly
- sunny
- friendly, agreeable
- clear
- very happy
- easy, lighthearted
- shining, glowing in appearance
- light in spirit
- not dirty; uncluttered
- cloudless, bright
- fun-loving
- decorated, celebratory
- refreshing to the senses
- extremely nice and happy
- adored, idiolized; divine
- beautiful, advantageous
- funny, happy
- optimistic, expectant
- funny, comical
- laughing, joyful
- energetic, active, busy
- bright, glowing
- very happy; festive
- believing positively
- acceptable; friendly
- bright, radiant
- cheerful, hopeful
- happy; optimistic
- beautiful, picturesque
- flamboyant, flashy
- bright, clear (referring to weather)
- intense, powerful
- extremely pale; lacking color
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
-
gay
- gay.
- lively
- cheerful
-
light
- featherweight,
- glossy,
- light-footed,
- light-skinned,
- lustrous,
- scintillant,
- shoestring,
- sylphlike,
- undemanding,
- unexacting,
- well-lighted,
- Floatable,
- Gossamery,
- Imponderous,
- well lit,
- lightest,
- sunny-side up,
- unobscured,
- fair-skinned,
- not much,
- hardly any,
- untroublesome,
- fair skinned,
- hardly enough,
- in adequate,
- in consequential,
- in considerable,
- in distinct,
- in significant,
- in substantial,
- in-adequate,
- in-consequential,
- in-considerable,
- in-distinct,
- in-substantial,
- in-sufficient,
- light footed,
- light hued,
- light skinned,
- light toned,
- light-hued,
- light-toned,
- lighthued,
- lightskinned,
- lighttoned,
- more bleached,
- more fairskinned,
- more flashing,
- more floatable,
- more fluorescent,
- more gossamery,
- more imponderous,
- more light footed,
- more light toned,
- more light-footed,
- more light-skinned,
- more light-toned,
- more lightfooted,
- more lighthued,
- more lightskinned,
- more lighttoned,
- more phosphorescent,
- more scintillant,
- more shoestring,
- more sylphlike,
- more tissuelike,
- more tow headed,
- more tow-headed,
- more undemanding,
- more unexacting,
- more unobscured,
- more untaxing,
- more untroublesome,
- more well lighted,
- more well lit,
- more well-lighted,
- more well-lit,
- more welllighted,
- more welllit,
- most bleached,
- most burnished,
- most fair skinned,
- most fairskinned,
- most floatable,
- most fluorescent,
- most gossamery,
- most imponderous,
- most light footed,
- most light hued,
- most light skinned,
- most light toned,
- most light-footed,
- most light-hued,
- most light-skinned,
- most light-toned,
- most lightfooted,
- most lighttoned,
- most scintillant,
- most shoestring,
- most sylphlike,
- most tissuelike,
- most tow headed,
- most tow-headed,
- most undemanding,
- most unexacting,
- most unobscured,
- most untaxing,
- most untroublesome,
- most well lighted,
- most well lit,
- most well-lighted,
- most well-lit,
- most welllighted,
- most welllit,
- not rich,
- sunnyside up,
- tissuelike,
- tow headed,
- tow-headed,
- un demanding,
- un heavier,
- un heaviest,
- un heavy,
- un obscured,
- un substantial,
- un taxing,
- un troublesome,
- un-demanding,
- un-exacting,
- un-heavier,
- un-heaviest,
- un-heavy,
- un-important,
- un-obscured,
- un-substantial,
- un-taxing,
- un-troublesome,
- unheavier,
- unheaviest,
- well lighted,
- well-lit,
- welllighted,
- welllit.
- white
-
blue
- joyous,
- lighthearted,
- upbeat,
- gay.
-
hopeful
- at ease,
- forward-looking,
- trustful,
- ex citing,
- forward looking,
- forwardlooking,
- in spiring,
- in spirited,
- in spiriting,
- in-spiring,
- in-spirited,
- in-spiriting,
- keeping faith,
- keeping the faith,
- looking forward to,
- more anticipating,
- more arousing,
- more elating,
- more emboldened,
- more fortifying,
- more forward looking,
- more forward-looking,
- more forwardlooking,
- more inspirited,
- more inspiriting,
- more promiseful,
- more reassured,
- more reassuring,
- more trustful,
- most anticipating,
- most arousing,
- most emboldened,
- most fortifying,
- most forward looking,
- most forward-looking,
- most forwardlooking,
- most inspirited,
- most inspiriting,
- most promiseful,
- most reassured,
- most reassuring,
- most trustful,
- promiseful,
- re assured,
- re-assured,
- re-assuring,
- rose colored,
- rosecolored,
- un flagging,
- un-flagging,
- up lifting,
- up-lifting,
- well timed,
- welltimed.
-
bright
- aglow,
- auroral,
- fulgid,
- hued,
- moonlit,
- palmy,
- phosphorescent,
- razzle-dazzle,
- shining,
- silvery,
- sunlit,
- Clear-headed,
- Relucent,
- palmiest,
- eggheaded,
- glitzy,
- wideawake,
- clear headed,
- glitziest,
- having smarts,
- in tense,
- in tenser,
- in-tense,
- in-tenser,
- in-tensest,
- more aglow,
- more alight,
- more burnished,
- more clear-headed,
- more coruscating,
- more eggheaded,
- more einstein,
- more fulgid,
- more illumined,
- more irradiated,
- more joyous,
- more lighted,
- more mirrorlike,
- more moonlit,
- more razzle dazzle,
- more razzle-dazzle,
- more razzledazzle,
- more relucent,
- more silvery,
- more tinged,
- most aglow,
- most alight,
- most auroral,
- most clear headed,
- most clear-headed,
- most eggheaded,
- most einstein,
- most flashing,
- most fulgid,
- most hued,
- most illumined,
- most irradiated,
- most joyous,
- most mirrorlike,
- most moonlit,
- most phosphorescent,
- most razzle dazzle,
- most razzle-dazzle,
- most razzledazzle,
- most relucent,
- most silvery,
- most sunlit,
- most tinged,
- palmier,
- quick witted,
- quickwitted,
- razzle dazzle,
- razzledazzle,
- re lucent,
- re-lucent,
- trans lucent,
- trans parent,
- trans-lucent,
- trans-parent,
- un clouded,
- wide awake.
- black
- pleasant
- joyful
-
clean
- speckless,
- unpolluted,
- unspotted,
- well-kept,
- neat as a pin,
- dirtless,
- more cleansed,
- more dirtless,
- more laundered,
- more speckless,
- more unpolluted,
- more unsmudged,
- more unspotted,
- more well kept,
- more well-kept,
- more wellkept,
- most cleansed,
- most dirtless,
- most laundered,
- most speckless,
- most taintless,
- most unsmudged,
- most unspotted,
- most well-kept,
- most wellkept,
- neat as pin,
- spic and span,
- spic span,
- un polluted,
- un smudged,
- un soiled,
- un spotted,
- un stained,
- un sullied,
- un tarnished,
- un-blemished,
- un-polluted,
- un-smudged,
- un-soiled,
- un-spotted,
- un-stained,
- un-sullied,
- un-tarnished,
- well kept.
-
amiable
- clubby,
- copacetic,
- friendly,
- kindly,
- righteous,
- swell,
- buddy-buddy,
- sweet-tempered,
- pussycat,
- buddy buddy,
- buddybuddy,
- clubbier,
- clubbiest,
- de lightful,
- de-lightful,
- downright neighborly,
- good humored,
- good natured,
- goodnatured,
- home cooking,
- more buddy buddy,
- more buddy-buddy,
- more buddybuddy,
- more copacetic,
- more pussycat,
- more sweet tempered,
- more sweet-tempered,
- more sweettempered,
- most buddy buddy,
- most buddy-buddy,
- most buddybuddy,
- most copacetic,
- most pussycat,
- most sweet tempered,
- most sweet-tempered,
- most sweettempered,
- most winning,
- palsy walsy,
- palsywalsy,
- sweet tempered,
- sweettempered.
- cloudy
-
fresh
- dewy,
- uncontaminated,
- dewiest,
- dewier,
- bright-eyed,
- Unfaded,
- Unwithered,
- bright eyed,
- brighteyed,
- bushy tailed,
- bushy-tailed,
- bushytailed,
- like new,
- more bouncing,
- more bright eyed,
- more bright-eyed,
- more brighteyed,
- more bushy tailed,
- more bushy-tailed,
- more bushytailed,
- more refreshed,
- more rehabilitated,
- more uncontaminated,
- more unfaded,
- more unwithered,
- most bouncing,
- most bright eyed,
- most bright-eyed,
- most brighteyed,
- most bushy tailed,
- most bushytailed,
- most rehabilitated,
- most uncontaminated,
- most unfaded,
- most unwithered,
- not stale,
- re habilitated,
- re stored,
- re-habilitated,
- re-stored,
- un contaminated,
- un faded,
- un wearied,
- un-contaminated,
- un-faded,
- un-used,
- un-wearied,
- un-withered.
- gleaming
- gloomy
- glowing
- good-humored
- happy
-
humorous
- campy,
- facetious,
- farcical,
- laughable,
- witty,
- jokey,
- campier,
- campiest,
- jokier,
- jokiest,
- more joshing,
- more screaming,
- more side splitting,
- more side-splitting,
- most comic,
- most jocose,
- most joshing,
- most screaming,
- most side splitting,
- most side-splitting,
- side splitting,
- side-splitting,
- too funny for words.
- jovial
- lightheaded
- perky
- radiant
- sanguine
- shimmering
- shining
- sparkling
- upbeat
- vivid
- beaming
- bleak
- breezy
- brilliant
- buoyant
-
convivial
- Conversible,
- backslapping,
- back slapping,
- back-slapping,
- glad handering,
- glad-handering,
- more back slapping,
- more backslapping,
- more conversible,
- more glad handering,
- more glad-handering,
- more gladhandering,
- most back slapping,
- most back-slapping,
- most conversible,
- most festal,
- most glad-handering,
- most gladhandering,
- most holiday.
- festive
- funny
- genial
- glimmering
- glinting
- glorious
- glossy
- illuminated
- incandescent
- jocular
- jolly
- lucid
-
merry
- Saturnalian,
- fun-loving,
- booner,
- boonest,
- fun loving,
- funloving,
- more fun loving,
- more funloving,
- more rip roaring,
- more rip-roaring,
- more riproaring,
- more saturnalian,
- most fun loving,
- most fun-loving,
- most funloving,
- most rip roaring,
- most rip-roaring,
- most riproaring,
- most saturnalian,
- rip roaring,
- riproaring.
- optimistic
- resplendent
- showy
- silly
- sunny
- friendly, agreeable
-
clear
- apprehensible,
- graspable,
- sunshiny,
- undimmed,
- unhampered,
- Tralucent,
- Translucid,
- Transpicuous,
- see through,
- Uncensurable,
- Undarkened,
- clear cut,
- clearcut,
- de finite,
- de-finite,
- dis charged,
- dis missed,
- dis-charged,
- dis-missed,
- ex press,
- ex-press,
- in controvertible,
- in nocent,
- in-controvertible,
- in-nocent,
- loud enough,
- more absolved,
- more apprehensible,
- more exculpated,
- more exonerated,
- more graspable,
- more recognizable,
- more resolved,
- more sunshiny,
- more tralucent,
- more translucid,
- more transpicuous,
- more uncensurable,
- more undarkened,
- more undimmed,
- more unhampered,
- most absolved,
- most apprehensible,
- most exculpated,
- most exonerated,
- most graspable,
- most recognizable,
- most resolved,
- most sunshiny,
- most transpicuous,
- most unblurred,
- most uncensurable,
- most undarkened,
- most undimmed,
- most unhampered,
- open and shut,
- open shut,
- re cognizable,
- re-cognizable,
- re-solved,
- seethrough,
- trans lucid,
- trans-lucid,
- un ambiguous,
- un blurred,
- un complicated,
- un darkened,
- un defiled,
- un dimmed,
- un equivocal,
- un hampered,
- un impeded,
- un mistakable,
- un obstructed,
- un troubled,
- un-blurred,
- un-censurable,
- un-complicated,
- un-darkened,
- un-defiled,
- un-dimmed,
- un-equivocal,
- un-hampered,
- un-impeded,
- un-limited,
- un-mistakable,
- un-obstructed,
- un-questionable,
- un-troubled,
- unblurred.
- very happy
- easy, lighthearted
- shining, glowing in appearance
- light in spirit
- not dirty; uncluttered
- cloudless, bright
- fun-loving
- decorated, celebratory
- refreshing to the senses
- extremely nice and happy
- adored, idiolized; divine
- beautiful, advantageous
- funny, happy
- optimistic, expectant
- funny, comical
- laughing, joyful
- energetic, active, busy
- bright, glowing
- very happy; festive
- believing positively
- acceptable; friendly
- bright, radiant
-
cheerful, hopeful
- rosy.
- happy; optimistic
- beautiful, picturesque
- flamboyant, flashy
- bright, clear (referring to weather)
- intense, powerful
- extremely pale; lacking color
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Other relevant words
- agleam,
- aglitter,
- animated,
- beamy,
- boon,
- bouncing,
- carefree,
- careless,
- cavalier,
- content,
- cordial,
- crystalline,
- dazzling,
- devil-may-care,
- easygoing,
- encouraged,
- energetic,
- excited,
- exuberant,
- exultant,
- floodlit,
- friendly,
- frisky,
- gladdened,
- glaring,
- gleaming,
- glossy,
- grinning,
- happy-go-lucky,
- heartwarming,
- insouciant,
- jaunty,
- jubilant,
- lighthearted,
- lightsome,
- lit,
- lively,
- moonlit,
- moony,
- overjoyed,
- peppy,
- perky,
- resplendent,
- sanguine,
- smiling,
- sparkling,
- spirited,
- sprightly,
- springy,
- starlit,
- sunlit,
- sunshiny,
- thrilled,
- transparent,
- unconcerned,
- vital,
- vivacious,
- white,
- zippy,
- Buoyed,
- Relucent,
- Sprightful,
- heartened,
- comforting,
- highlighted.
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Other antonyms
- amiable,
- breezy,
- clean,
- hued,
- kindly,
- undemanding,
- easy-going.
Antonym of the day
leading the way
- Antonyms:
- abandon, follow, misguide.
