What is another word for glooms?

Pronunciation: [ɡlˈuːmz] (IPA)

"Glooms" is a synonym for dark, depressing and somber moods or atmosphere. Other synonyms for "glooms" include desolation, melancholy, dismal, despair, sadness or misery. The word "glooms" generally refers to a feeling of negativity and despair or a state of being gloomy. However, words like melancholy or desolation also bring a sense of deeper emotion and solitude to the meaning. Whereas, words like despair and misery simply express a feeling of distress and sadness. Understanding these synonyms helps describe various states of emotion one can experience when in a gloomy mood, giving the reader a more comprehensive way to express their feelings.

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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Glooms

  • Skirting the rocks at the forest edge With a running flame from ledge to ledge, Or swaying deeper in shadowy glooms, A smoldering fire in her dusky blooms; Bronzed and molded by wind and sun, Maddening, gladdening every one With a gypsy beauty full and fine,— A health to the crimson columbine!
    Elaine Goodale Eastman
  • O’er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.
    James Whitcomb Riley
  • The street-lamps burn amidst the baleful glooms, Amidst the soundless solitudes immense Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
    James Thomson (B.V.)
  • Welcome, kindred glooms! Congenial horrors, hail!
    James Thomson (poet)

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