Definition for Gloomy:

• Gloominess.

Synonyms for Gloomy:

• adj.

  •bad (adjective)
  • discouraged,
  • unfavorable,
  • troubled,
  • disagreeable,
  • adverse,
  • unpleasant,
  • unfortunate.
  •black (adjective)
  • foreboding,
  • sombre,
  • sinister,
  • doleful,
  • distressing,
  • depressive,
  • threatening.
  •bleak (adjective)
  • hopeless,
  • lonely.
  •blue (adjective)
  • down in the dumps.
  •cheerless (adjective)
  • dolorous,
  • sorrowful,
  • uncomfortable,
  • austere.
  •cloudy (adjective)
  • indistinct,
  • opaque,
  • leaden,
  • mucky,
  • misty,
  • lowering,
  • blurred,
  • foggy,
  • nebulous.
  •crabby/crabbed (adjective)
  • cross,
  • splenetic,
  • brusque,
  • crotchety,
  • unsociable,
  • ill-tempered,
  • sour,
  • perverse,
  • petulant,
  • bad-tempered,
  • acrimonious,
  • snappish,
  • cynical,
  • choleric,
  • fretful,
  • churlish,
  • grouchy,
  • ill-humored,
  • crusty,
  • testy,
  • peevish,
  • irascible,
  • irritable.
  •dark (adjective)
  • murky,
  • unlighted,
  • lightless,
  • darkened,
  • umbrageous,
  • shady,
  • stygian,
  • black,
  • somber,
  • cimmerian,
  • crepuscular,
  • shadowy,
  • shaded,
  • dun,
  • caliginous,
  • silhouetted,
  • swarthy,
  • ill-lighted,
  • dreary,
  • rayless,
  • dim,
  • unpropitious,
  • unlit,
  • dusk,
  • sooty,
  • dismal,
  • clouded,
  • inky.
  •dejected (adjective)
  • despondent,
  • glum,
  • disheartened,
  • Mopish,
  • downhearted,
  • wistful,
  • overcome,
  • lachrymose,
  • heartbroken,
  • contemplative,
  • pensive,
  • broody,
  • despairing,
  • anxious,
  • plaintive,
  • mournful,
  • sad,
  • morose,
  • depressed.
  •depressed (adjective)
  • dysphoric,
  • low-spirited,
  • melancholic,
  • tristful,
  • low.
  •depressing (adjective)
  • bleak,
  • dispiriting.
  •desolate (adjective)
  • acheronian,
  • godforsaken.
  •dim (adjective)
  • unilluminated.
  •direful (adjective)
  • inauspicious,
  • Ill-boding.
  •discontent (adjective)
  • 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.
  •downcast (adjective)
  • heartsick,
  • chapfallen.
  •funereal (adjective)
  • funereal.
  •gloomy (adjective)
  • disheartening,
  • wintry,
  • cold,
  • comfortless,
  • sulky,
  • acherontic,
  • dull,
  • weary,
  • Dragged,
  • drab,
  • solemn,
  • dour,
  • in the dumps,
  • surly,
  • blue funk,
  • crabbed,
  • woebegone,
  • overcast,
  • forlorn,
  • overclouded,
  • saturnine,
  • in low spirits,
  • saddening,
  • Moping,
  • crestfallen,
  • down in the mouth.
  •gray (adjective)
  • 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.
  •hopeless (adjective)
  • desperate,
  • spiritless.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • crabby.
  •low (adjective)
  • low-down.
  •negative (adjective)
  • unenthusiastic.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • cantankerous,
  • beetle-browed,
  • ungenial,
  • uncooperative,
  • obstinate,
  • mean,
  • frowning,
  • grumpy,
  • scowling,
  • contrary,
  • hostile,
  • glowering,
  • unfriendly,
  • dissociable,
  • malevolent,
  • noncooperative.

• n.

  •
  • alarming,
  • menacing,
  • chilling.
  •gloomy (noun)
  • glooming,
  • sorry,
  • uncheerful,
  • gloomful.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • bleakly,
  • apocalyptic,
  • Whipped,
  • tenebrific,
  • sepulchral,
  • lovelorn,
  • devastated,
  • grief-stricken,
  • shattered,
  • careworn,
  • harassed,
  • dismayed,
  • Broken-hearted,
  • deflated,
  • homesick,
  • Grieved.
  •
  • oppressed,
  • claustrophobic,
  • hopelessly,
  • regretfully,
  • suicidal,
  • flattened.
  •
  • distressed,
  • sadly,
  • injured.
  •
  • cranky.
  •
  • heavy.
  •cloudy
  • sunless.
  •in low spirits
  • heavy-hearted.
  •Other relevant words:
  • discoloured,
  • juicy,
  • give way,
  • bleakness,
  • Desolateness,
  • ill-defined,
  • circumscribe,
  • tearful,
  • bluish,
  • forbidding,
  • aristocratic,
  • cheerlessness,
  • dirty,
  • ill-humoured,
  • faint,
  • blurry,
  • naughty,
  • demoralizing,
  • bind,
  • Darksome,
  • serious,
  • boding,
  • misery,
  • puritan,
  • regretful,
  • sallow,
  • seriously,
  • hold,
  • gloomily,
  • awfully,
  • elegiac,
  • down,
  • dreadfully,
  • gruesome,
  • pathetic,
  • ill,
  • Star-crossed,
  • evening,
  • Bodeful,
  • grungy,
  • pitiful,
  • lamentable,
  • untoward,
  • woe,
  • brooding,
  • faded,
  • grey,
  • demoralising,
  • ill-starred,
  • earnestly,
  • negativistic,
  • commit,
  • dimmer,
  • contain,
  • low-toned,
  • dyspeptic,
  • darkening,
  • anguish,
  • imperceptible,
  • chill,
  • evil,
  • baneful,
  • meritless,
  • nihilistic,
  • chopfallen,
  • bowery,
  • inconsolable,
  • lacklustre,
  • lowly,
  • darkling,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • hazy,
  • grim-faced,
  • funeral,
  • turbid,
  • Sombrous,
  • downward,
  • fuzzy,
  • crushed,
  • sedate,
  • unfortunately,
  • grievous,
  • portentous,
  • indiscernible,
  • disastrously,
  • lovesick,
  • unforgiving,
  • dolor,
  • lurid,
  • unlucky,
  • colored,
  • mordant,
  • racy,
  • heavyhearted,
  • deplorable,
  • ignorant,
  • inhospitable,
  • antisocial,
  • muddied,
  • gravely,
  • contrite,
  • curb,
  • murkily,
  • overwhelmed,
  • unsatisfied,
  • louring,
  • incarcerate,
  • unclear,
  • Cirrose,
  • pitiable,
  • stupidity,
  • unconsecrated,
  • grief,
  • temperamental,
  • gruff,
  • staid,
  • remorseful,
  • ebony,
  • weakened,
  • goner,
  • listless,
  • soiled,
  • pained,
  • blueish,
  • leafy,
  • worry about,
  • immure,
  • Nimbose,
  • unfavourable,
  • severe,
  • demarcate,
  • starless,
  • reduce,
  • disappointing,
  • sick,
  • grimly,
  • unfathomable,
  • scurvy,
  • bosky,
  • abject,
  • shadowlike,
  • affliction,
  • puritanical,
  • hurt,
  • wearisome,
  • pain,
  • raunchy,
  • heartsore,
  • grave,
  • droopy,
  • solemnly,
  • constrain,
  • pitchy,
  • uninviting,
  • aristocratical,
  • restrict,
  • modest,
  • foolishness,
  • unrelenting,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • dimly,
  • nebular,
  • castellatus,
  • check,
  • wronged,
  • go down,
  • Blackly,
  • dismally,
  • cumulous,
  • minacious,
  • pitifully,
  • chap-fallen,
  • doubtful,
  • solitary,
  • unsmiling,
  • squally,
  • gloom,
  • po-faced,
  • earnest,
  • momentous,
  • minatory,
  • shut,
  • pale,
  • twilight,
  • Dimming,
  • stern,
  • folly,
  • grieving,
  • grimy,
  • no-count,
  • benighted,
  • sober,
  • sorrow,
  • coloured,
  • grisly,
  • Portending,
  • baleful,
  • badly,
  • rueful,
  • nonsense,
  • gentle,
  • desolation,
  • profane,
  • grimness,
  • blue-blooded,
  • sulking,
  • risque,
  • dreadful,
  • wrongly,
  • impound,
  • dolefully,
  • tragic,
  • obscurity,
  • aggrieved,
  • night,
  • befogged,
  • ruthful,
  • darkly,
  • unsung,
  • reserved,
  • brunet,
  • brunette,
  • subfusc,
  • veiled,
  • Obscured,
  • unappeasable,
  • bittersweet,
  • detain,
  • distress,
  • cut up,
  • sadness,
  • embittered,
  • bitter,
  • Stratiform,
  • dreariness,
  • unhappily,
  • disconsolateness,
  • disastrous,
  • deeply,
  • morbid,
  • intricate,
  • dead,
  • indistinguishable,
  • calamitous,
  • restrain,
  • midnight,
  • encumbered,
  • Subfuscous,
  • highbrow,
  • doomed,
  • muzzy,
  • cumuliform,
  • fateful,
  • calamitously,
  • dead duck,
  • MOPY,
  • harrowing,
  • moonless,
  • afflicted,
  • umbral,
  • noon,
  • cloudlike,
  • blasphemous,
  • swart,
  • caustic,
  • upset,
  • valueless,
  • spicy,
  • Dissatisfying,
  • undefined,
  • stormy,
  • brokenhearted,
  • edgy,
  • pitying,
  • smudgy,
  • gamey,
  • lenticularis,
  • bad job,
  • depressant,
  • poorly,
  • ill-natured,
  • heartrending,
  • Triste,
  • gamy,
  • severely,
  • Disconsolation,
  • relentless,
  • darkness,
  • piteous,
  • Pouting,
  • humiliated,
  • heartbreaking,
  • soberly,
  • vinegarish,
  • nasty,
  • darken,
  • curt,
  • ghastly,
  • impatient,
  • lost,
  • weak,
  • enclose,
  • abrupt,
  • closed,
  • depression,
  • of evil portent,
  • drearily,
  • Funebrial,
  • nightfall,
  • confuse,
  • Unlively,
  • good-for-naught,
  • in secret,
  • Saddened,
  • inexorable,
  • heart-broken,
  • gloominess,
  • illegible,
  • olive-drab,
  • confine,
  • discontented,
  • Weariful,
  • imprison,
  • ill-fated,
  • taciturn,
  • begrimed,
  • deadening,
  • grey-brown,
  • vague,
  • Cirrous,
  • grubby,
  • ill-lit,
  • ill-omened,
  • deject.

Paraphrases for Gloomy:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    bleak, grim, dismal, somber, morose.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    dreary, depressed, stark, lamentable, obscure, shadowy, black, ominous, dull, deplorable.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    sombre, pessimistic, dark, darkest, depressing, murky, melancholy, sad, glum, disappointing, sinister, dim, sobering, dire, miserable, distressing, sorrowful, sluggish, dusky, creepy, tragic, saddening.

Antonyms for Gloomy:

• adj.

  • black
    hopeful, optimistic.
  • bleak
    nice, pleasant, comforting, congenial.
  • blue
    lighthearted, upbeat, gay, joyous.
  • cloudy
    clear, cloudless.
  • gloomy
    content, animated, bright, cheerful, sparkling, sunny, exhilarating, uplifting, happy, joyful, light, encouraging, encouraged, vivacious.
  • Other antonyms:
    energetic, lively, bouncing, peppy, gleaming, lit, agleam, cordial, floodlit, sunlit, unconcerned, frisky, spirited, Relucent, careless, friendly, smiling, white, glossy, happy-go-lucky, crystalline, insouciant, exuberant, resplendent, sunshiny, zippy, dazzling, carefree, aglitter, starlit, Buoyed, heartened, perky, overjoyed, cavalier, jubilant, vital, beamy, devil-may-care, exultant, highlighted, boon, gladdened, grinning, moony, transparent, Sprightful, sprightly, glaring, excited, springy, sanguine, lightsome, easygoing, jaunty, moonlit, thrilled, heartwarming.