What is another word for gloomy?
1183 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɡlˈuːmi], [ ɡlˈuːmi], [ ɡ_l_ˈuː_m_i]
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Similar words for gloomy:
- bad (adjective)
- black (adjective)
- bleak (adjective)
- blue (adjective)
- cheerless (adjective)
- cloudy (adjective)
- crabby (adjective)
- crabby/crabbed (adjective)
- dark (adjective)
- dejected (adjective)
- depressed (adjective)
- depressing (adjective)
- desolate (adjective)
- despondent (adjective)
- dim (adjective)
- dingy (adjective)
- dire (adjective)
- direful (adjective)
- disconsolate (adjective)
- discontent (adjective)
- discouraging (adjective)
- dispirited (adjective)
- dispiriting (adjective)
- disturbing (adjective)
- doleful (adjective)
- downbeat (adjective)
- downcast (adjective)
- drab (adjective)
- dusky (adjective)
- fed up (adjective)
- funereal (adjective)
- gloomy (adjective)
- godforsaken (adjective)
- gray (adjective)
- grim (adjective)
- hopeless (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- joyless (adjective)
- livid (adjective)
- low (adjective)
- low-spirited (adjective)
- lowering (adjective)
- lugubrious (adjective)
- melancholic (adjective)
- melancholy (adjective)
- miserable (adjective)
- moody (adjective)
- morose (adjective)
- muddy (adjective)
- negative (adjective)
- obscure (adjective)
- ominous (adjective)
- oppressive (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- perturbing (adjective)
- pessimistic (adjective)
- sable (adjective)
- sad (adjective)
- somber (adjective)
- sulky (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- tenebrous (adjective)
- ugly (adjective)
- unhappy (adjective)
- unsettling (adjective)
- upsetting (adjective)
- woeful (adjective)
- wretched (adjective)
- drab (noun)
- gloomful (noun)
- glooming (noun)
- gloomy (noun)
- naysayer (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- pessimist (noun)
- other synonyms
- cloudy
- in low spirits
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Gloomy:
adj.
• bad (adjective)- adverse,
- troubled,
- disagreeable,
- troubling,
- unpleasant,
- unfortunate,
- discouraged,
- unfavorable,
- displeasing,
- gloomy.
- atrocious,
- sinister,
- distressing,
- sombre,
- depressive,
- sombrer,
- doleful,
- threatening,
- foreboding,
- horrible.
- confused,
- blurred,
- nontransparent,
- nebulous,
- mucky,
- misty,
- foggy,
- indistinct,
- mushy,
- dense,
- leaden,
- indefinite,
- opaque,
- emulsified,
- lowering,
- vaporous.
- grouchy,
- tough,
- misanthropic,
- captious,
- difficult,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- fretful,
- perverse,
- tart,
- snappy,
- acrimonious,
- acrid,
- splenetic,
- petulant,
- prickly,
- choleric,
- awkward,
- crusty,
- testy,
- snappish,
- brusque,
- bad-tempered,
- unsociable,
- churlish,
- huffy,
- sour,
- cross,
- crotchety,
- ill-tempered,
- acid,
- peevish,
- ill-humored,
- blunt,
- trying,
- cynical.
- shadowy,
- obfuscous,
- somber,
- dusk,
- cimmerian,
- caliginous,
- pitch black,
- rayless,
- shady,
- black,
- dim,
- umbrageous,
- swarthy,
- crepuscular,
- ill-lighted,
- unlit,
- fainter,
- clouded,
- pitch dark,
- silhouetted,
- sooty,
- dreary,
- dismal,
- Atramentous,
- shaded,
- aphotic,
- unlighted,
- darkened,
- lightless,
- stygian,
- unpropitious,
- inky,
- dun,
- pitch-dark,
- murky.
- downhearted,
- pensive,
- disheartened,
- glum,
- depressed,
- contemplative,
- overcome,
- all torn up,
- Mopish,
- mournful,
- bummed out,
- atrabilious,
- shot down,
- despondent,
- despairing,
- morose,
- sad,
- cast down,
- in the pits,
- heartbroken,
- lachrymose,
- anxious,
- wistful,
- plaintive,
- broody.
- de pressing,
- most saddening,
- more daunting,
- bleak,
- dispiriting,
- most daunting,
- more saddening,
- de-pressing.
- more bummed out,
- more castdown,
- castdown,
- more grieving,
- more cast-down,
- most bummedout,
- most bummed-out,
- most cast down,
- more cast down,
- most mourning,
- bummedout,
- most castdown,
- most cast-down,
- more bummed-out,
- most grieving,
- most bummed out,
- more bummedout,
- more mourning.
- most bedimmed,
- brokendown,
- most darkish,
- most smirched,
- be dimmed,
- more darkish,
- more discolored,
- more smirched,
- be-dimmed,
- dis colored,
- dis-colored,
- more bedimmed,
- most discolored.
- more oppressing,
- re-doubtable,
- most oppressing,
- portentous,
- ruinous,
- re doubtable,
- most scowling,
- more scowling.
- more crushed,
- de stroyed,
- de-stroyed,
- grief stricken,
- most torn up,
- most torn-up,
- more torn-up,
- most tornup,
- more tornup,
- most crushed,
- most ripped,
- more torn up,
- more ripped,
- tornup.
- displeased,
- frustrated,
- discomposed,
- irritated,
- exasperated,
- discontent,
- uneasy,
- restless,
- dissident,
- dissatisfied,
- malcontent,
- wretched,
- ticked off,
- ungratified,
- teed off,
- unhappy,
- non-satisfied,
- irreconcilable,
- disquieted,
- bored,
- disapproving,
- disgruntled.
- in opportune,
- offputting,
- dis-maying,
- dis appointing,
- more off putting,
- more dismaying,
- off putting,
- dis advantageous,
- most repressing,
- most dampening,
- most dissuading,
- more dampening,
- in-opportune,
- most off-putting,
- more repressing,
- more offputting,
- more hindering,
- re-pressing,
- most off putting,
- most offputting,
- dis maying,
- more off-putting,
- re pressing,
- dis-advantageous,
- more dissuading,
- most hindering,
- most dismaying,
- dis-appointing.
- more shotdown,
- shotdown,
- most shot-down,
- more shot down,
- more shot-down,
- shot-down,
- most shotdown,
- most shot down.
- dis-comforting,
- most aggravating,
- more vexing,
- more harassing,
- more discommoding,
- Harassing,
- dis-composing,
- embarrassing,
- more impeding,
- dis-concerting,
- most discommoding,
- more discomposing,
- more discomforting,
- in-convenient,
- more disconcerting,
- most harassing,
- more agitating,
- most agitating,
- in convenient,
- dis concerting,
- dis composing,
- most discomforting,
- most disconcerting,
- most impeding,
- most vexing,
- most discomposing,
- dis comforting,
- impeding,
- more aggravating.
- more zero,
- more characterless,
- more lusterless,
- more subfuse,
- un changing,
- un inspired,
- most subfuse,
- un-changing,
- most zero,
- sub fuse,
- sub-fuse,
- most lusterless,
- most characterless,
- un-inspired.
- darkcomplexioned,
- more twilight,
- dark complexioned,
- more twilit,
- more darkcomplexioned,
- most dark-complexioned,
- most dark complexioned,
- most darkcomplexioned,
- more dark-complexioned,
- swartest,
- swart,
- most twilit,
- most twilight,
- more adusk,
- swarter,
- most brunette,
- more dark complexioned,
- most adusk.
- dis satisfied,
- sated,
- satiated,
- dis contented,
- most sated,
- most satiated,
- more sated,
- most surfeited,
- more satiated,
- more surfeited,
- most discontented,
- dis-satisfied,
- dis-contented,
- sick tired.
- disheartening,
- saddening,
- crestfallen,
- dour,
- cold,
- blue funk,
- overcast,
- Dragged,
- woebegone,
- in low spirits,
- Moping,
- surly,
- in the dumps,
- crabbed,
- comfortless,
- forlorn,
- solemn,
- wintry,
- overclouded,
- down in the mouth,
- dull,
- acherontic,
- sulky,
- saturnine,
- weary.
- iron-gray,
- mole-gray,
- mousy,
- grizzled,
- ashen,
- lead-gray,
- salt-and-pepper,
- gun metal,
- taupe,
- pearl-gray,
- gray,
- dapple-gray,
- smoky,
- neutral-tint,
- battleship-gray,
- silvery,
- pearly.
- in-exorable,
- stern,
- more glowering,
- un-yielding,
- forbidding,
- in exorable,
- in-tractable,
- un yielding,
- un-relenting,
- un relenting,
- most glowering,
- in tractable,
- re solute,
- re-solute,
- grisly.
- more agonized,
- most suffering,
- more anguished,
- Racked,
- pained,
- most racked,
- on downer,
- most anguished,
- more tortured,
- most tortured,
- wounded,
- ruthful,
- more tormented,
- most tormented,
- most agonized,
- more suffering,
- more racked.
- more moping,
- shorttempered,
- more piqued,
- out sorts,
- most piqued,
- most moping,
- introspective,
- in huff,
- short tempered.
- be-mired,
- gunkiest,
- be-spattered,
- un-cleanest,
- gunkier,
- un cleanest,
- most bespattered,
- more bespattered,
- more bemired,
- soiled,
- most caked,
- un-cleaner,
- be spattered,
- sodden,
- un clean,
- most bemired,
- un cleaner,
- more caked,
- be mired.
- more malificent,
- most precursive,
- more malefic,
- more precursive,
- in hospitable,
- illfated,
- most malificent,
- un friendliest,
- un friendlier,
- most malefic,
- un-friendlier,
- pre monitory,
- un-friendly,
- more doomful,
- in-hospitable,
- most doomful,
- most presaging,
- pre-monitory,
- un-friendliest,
- more premonitory,
- more presaging,
- ill fated,
- pre cursive,
- most premonitory,
- pre-cursive.
- in human,
- most ironhanded,
- over bearing,
- un justest,
- un-just,
- more superincumbent,
- Over-bearing,
- more headache,
- heavyhanded,
- un-justest,
- un just,
- super incumbent,
- more ironhanded,
- super-incumbent,
- ex acting,
- more confining,
- most confining,
- ex-acting,
- most superincumbent,
- in-human,
- un juster,
- most headache,
- heavy handed,
- un-juster.
- disturbing,
- perturbing,
- subfuse,
- sourpussed,
- dingy,
- premonitory,
- dejected,
- ugly,
- malificent,
- lonesome,
- pouty,
- sick at heart,
- drear,
- grim,
- long-faced,
- have the blahs,
- desolate,
- dark-complexioned,
- in a huff,
- torn-up,
- smoggy,
- upsetting,
- non-transparent,
- unpromising,
- darkish,
- torn up,
- melancholy,
- Precursive,
- sable,
- joyless,
- miserable,
- woeful,
- obscure,
- discouraging,
- disconsolate,
- lugubrious,
- Caked,
- dispirited,
- ominous,
- Drearisome,
- downcast,
- raven,
- unsettling,
- fatalistic,
- anguished,
- boggy,
- nontranslucent,
- sullen,
- head ache,
- defeatist,
- in a bad mood,
- perversive,
- negative,
- on a downer,
- Mumpish,
- bad,
- Nubilous,
- Doomful,
- twilit,
- down in mouth,
- boggiest,
- dire,
- broken down,
- down in dumps,
- no nonsense,
- greyish,
- cloudy,
- sick and tired,
- in despair,
- downbeat,
- depressing,
- cheerless,
- in blue funk,
- malefic,
- up here,
- not clear,
- Chuffy,
- oppressive,
- characterless,
- roily,
- rough going,
- dusky,
- in the doldrums,
- let-down,
- GUNKY,
- cast-down,
- ironhanded,
- adusk,
- having the blahs,
- livid,
- having blue devils,
- dark,
- in doldrums,
- draggy,
- mirthless,
- moody,
- griefstricken,
- lusterless,
- in pain,
- unhopeful,
- bummed-out,
- off-putting,
- roiled,
- in bad mood,
- superincumbent,
- troublous,
- boggier,
- nasty-tempered,
- up to here,
- blue,
- muddy,
- Bummed,
- bespattered,
- dull as dishwater,
- direful,
- fed up,
- tenebrous,
- pessimistic,
- ebon.
- in grief,
- sick heart,
- more grieved,
- be reaved,
- be-reaved,
- most grieved,
- most bereaved,
- more bereaved.
- more pouting,
- most sulking,
- more sourpussed,
- poutier,
- with-drawn,
- with drawn,
- more sulking,
- poutiest,
- most pouting,
- most sourpussed.
- cantankerous,
- beetle-browed,
- ungenial,
- uncooperative,
- obstinate,
- mean,
- frowning,
- grumpy,
- scowling,
- contrary,
- hostile,
- glowering,
- unfriendly,
- dissociable,
- malevolent,
- noncooperative.
- more amphibological,
- un-intelligible,
- more unexplicit,
- un explicit,
- most unexplicit,
- most amphibological,
- Amphibological,
- unexplicit,
- un-explicit.
- more let-down,
- un-happier,
- longfaced,
- more letdown,
- un-happy,
- most let-down,
- un happy,
- most longfaced,
- un happier,
- long faced,
- heavy hearted,
- un happiest,
- more long-faced,
- more bleeding,
- more longfaced,
- more let down,
- most bleeding,
- most let down,
- more long faced,
- un-happiest,
- most long-faced,
- most letdown,
- most long faced.
n.
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- chilling,
- spooky,
- eerie,
- menacing,
- intimidating,
- frightening,
- alarming,
- awesome,
- scary.
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- broken.
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- hope.
- drab.
Other synonyms:
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- dismayed,
- bleakly,
- apocalyptic,
- screwed up,
- Grieved,
- lovelorn,
- grief-stricken,
- deflated,
- shattered,
- tenebrific,
- careworn,
- unquiet,
- Whipped,
- unfulfilled,
- homesick,
- devastated,
- doom-laden,
- harassed,
- choked up,
- sepulchral,
- Broken-hearted.
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•
- hopelessly,
- cut-up,
- oppressed,
- suicidal,
- subdued,
- regretfully,
- claustrophobic,
- flattened,
- woefully.
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- distressed,
- sadly,
- injured.
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- cranky.
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- heavy.
- inhospitable,
- detain,
- fuzzy,
- noon,
- unfavourable,
- po-faced,
- curmudgeonly,
- dismally,
- sorrow,
- Funebrial,
- murkily,
- demoralizing,
- piteous,
- aristocratic,
- weakened,
- Portending,
- sallow,
- pitiful,
- undefined,
- poorly,
- grievous,
- Disconsolation,
- grubby,
- dreariness,
- distress,
- wrongly,
- grungy,
- benighted,
- rueful,
- remorseful,
- turbid,
- obscurity,
- unfortunately,
- twilight,
- droopy,
- morbid,
- incarcerate,
- ghastly,
- faint,
- goner,
- blue-blooded,
- elegiac,
- curb,
- disastrously,
- uninviting,
- commit,
- coloured,
- ill,
- lost,
- ill-fated,
- leafy,
- dolor,
- unrelenting,
- awfully,
- staid,
- cheerlessness,
- good-for-nothing,
- affliction,
- nightfall,
- funeral,
- demoralising,
- blurry,
- deject,
- modest,
- inexorable,
- wearisome,
- antisocial,
- darkling,
- down,
- indiscernible,
- ill-omened,
- brooding,
- imprison,
- ill-lit,
- disastrous,
- Sombrous,
- demarcate,
- lurid,
- nihilistic,
- MOPY,
- dreadfully,
- depression,
- juicy,
- unsung,
- gentle,
- bad job,
- midnight,
- evening,
- Dissatisfying,
- gamey,
- boding,
- Triste,
- edgy,
- severely,
- doubtful,
- sober,
- listless,
- depressant,
- bittersweet,
- temperamental,
- Weariful,
- give way,
- befogged,
- Blackly,
- Dimming,
- pitying,
- veiled,
- pain,
- chopfallen,
- darkening,
- bitter,
- brunet,
- bluish,
- intricate,
- brunette,
- gloom,
- gloomily,
- heartrending,
- smudgy,
- impound,
- reduce,
- caustic,
- worry about,
- chill,
- go down,
- of evil portent,
- minatory,
- muddied,
- in secret,
- Stratiform,
- confuse,
- contrite,
- darkly,
- unclear,
- cumuliform,
- ill-natured,
- sulking,
- nonsense,
- inconsolable,
- minacious,
- earnest,
- discontented,
- risque,
- untoward,
- heavyhearted,
- harrowing,
- circumscribe,
- earnestly,
- badly,
- restrict,
- momentous,
- heartsore,
- cloudlike,
- squally,
- puritanical,
- overwhelmed,
- faded,
- grey-brown,
- severe,
- nasty,
- grave,
- sadness,
- brokenhearted,
- contain,
- highbrow,
- dirty,
- upset,
- pitifully,
- illegible,
- bleakness,
- aggrieved,
- relentless,
- confine,
- vague,
- solemnly,
- racy,
- nebular,
- darkness,
- dyspeptic,
- darken,
- solitary,
- lovesick,
- pitchy,
- grimy,
- Obscured,
- chap-fallen,
- grim-faced,
- Cirrose,
- profane,
- unhappily,
- moonless,
- grimly,
- dolefully,
- deeply,
- dreadful,
- soberly,
- woe,
- desolation,
- low-toned,
- check,
- restrain,
- lamentable,
- stormy,
- louring,
- constrain,
- imperceptible,
- embittered,
- spicy,
- pale,
- aristocratical,
- Nimbose,
- shut,
- lacklustre,
- castellatus,
- curt,
- ill-defined,
- hurt,
- reserved,
- Cirrous,
- tearful,
- ill-starred,
- abject,
- starless,
- sick,
- stupidity,
- lenticularis,
- Bodeful,
- evil,
- weak,
- gloominess,
- baneful,
- sedate,
- Subfuscous,
- gamy,
- dimly,
- good-for-naught,
- olive-drab,
- grieving,
- cumulous,
- raunchy,
- unforgiving,
- foolishness,
- dead duck,
- dead,
- encumbered,
- calamitously,
- unfathomable,
- vinegarish,
- valueless,
- taciturn,
- gruesome,
- night,
- wronged,
- Desolateness,
- deadening,
- colored,
- bosky,
- Saddened,
- puritan,
- folly,
- naughty,
- grimness,
- unsmiling,
- no-count,
- ebony,
- umbral,
- bowery,
- unlucky,
- regretful,
- bind,
- disconsolateness,
- meritless,
- indistinguishable,
- heart-broken,
- dimmer,
- discoloured,
- anguish,
- drearily,
- ignorant,
- hazy,
- grief,
- enclose,
- hold,
- fateful,
- afflicted,
- begrimed,
- blasphemous,
- gravely,
- misery,
- unsatisfied,
- lowly,
- mordant,
- impatient,
- Unlively,
- immure,
- humiliated,
- scurvy,
- unconsecrated,
- disappointing,
- closed,
- negativistic,
- grey,
- calamitous,
- cut up,
- pathetic,
- ill-humoured,
- Darksome,
- abrupt,
- deplorable,
- seriously,
- Star-crossed,
- heartbreaking,
- doomed,
- tragic,
- serious,
- shadowlike,
- unappeasable,
- Pouting,
- subfusc,
- downward,
- pitiable,
- baleful,
- muzzy,
- gruff,
- blueish,
- crushed.
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Adjective
black, deplorable, depressed, dreary, dull, lamentable, obscure, ominous, shadowy, stark.
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creepy, dark, depressing, dim, dire, disappointing, distressing, dusky, glum, melancholy, miserable, murky, pessimistic, sad, saddening, sinister, sluggish, sobering, sombre, sorrowful, tragic, darkest.
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