Synonyms for Gloomy:

• adj.

  •bad (adjective)
  • adverse,
  • troubled,
  • disagreeable,
  • troubling,
  • unpleasant,
  • unfortunate,
  • discouraged,
  • unfavorable,
  • displeasing,
  • gloomy.
  •black (adjective)
  • atrocious,
  • sinister,
  • distressing,
  • sombre,
  • depressive,
  • sombrer,
  • doleful,
  • threatening,
  • foreboding,
  • horrible.
  •bleak (adjective)
  • harsh,
  • hopeless,
  • lonely,
  • hard.
  •blue (adjective)
  • down in the dumps.
  •cheerless (adjective)
  • jarring,
  • uncomfortable,
  • sorrowful,
  • dolorous,
  • austere,
  • mopey,
  • Dejecting.
  •cloudy (adjective)
  • confused,
  • blurred,
  • nontransparent,
  • nebulous,
  • mucky,
  • misty,
  • foggy,
  • indistinct,
  • mushy,
  • dense,
  • leaden,
  • indefinite,
  • opaque,
  • emulsified,
  • lowering,
  • vaporous.
  •crabby (adjective)
  • chuffiest,
  • more mumpish,
  • most mumpish,
  • chuffier.
  •crabby/crabbed (adjective)
  • 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.
  •dark (adjective)
  • 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.
  •dejected (adjective)
  • 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.
  •depressed (adjective)
  • dysphoric,
  • low-spirited,
  • melancholic,
  • tristful,
  • low.
  •depressing (adjective)
  • de pressing,
  • most saddening,
  • more daunting,
  • bleak,
  • dispiriting,
  • most daunting,
  • more saddening,
  • de-pressing.
  •desolate (adjective)
  • in a blue funk,
  • godforsaken,
  • acheronian.
  •despondent (adjective)
  • 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.
  •dim (adjective)
  • mater,
  • poorly lit,
  • unilluminated.
  •dingy (adjective)
  • 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.
  •dire (adjective)
  • more oppressing,
  • re-doubtable,
  • most oppressing,
  • portentous,
  • ruinous,
  • re doubtable,
  • most scowling,
  • more scowling.
  •direful (adjective)
  • inauspicious,
  • Ill-boding.
  •disconsolate (adjective)
  • 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.
  •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.
  •discouraging (adjective)
  • 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.
  •dispirited (adjective)
  • more shotdown,
  • shotdown,
  • most shot-down,
  • more shot down,
  • more shot-down,
  • shot-down,
  • most shotdown,
  • most shot down.
  •dispiriting (adjective)
  • de moralizing,
  • most crushing,
  • de-moralizing.
  •disturbing (adjective)
  • 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.
  •doleful (adjective)
  • painful,
  • Dolent,
  • Dirgeful.
  •downbeat (adjective)
  • most unhopeful,
  • more defeatist,
  • most defeatist,
  • un hopeful,
  • un-hopeful,
  • more unhopeful.
  •downcast (adjective)
  • chapfallen,
  • down-in-the-mouth,
  • singing the blues,
  • heartsick.
  •drab (adjective)
  • 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.
  •dusky (adjective)
  • 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.
  •fed up (adjective)
  • 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.
  •funereal (adjective)
  • funereal,
  • dirgelike.
  •gloomy (adjective)
  • 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.
  •godforsaken (adjective)
  • forgotten,
  • neglected.
  •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.
  •grim (adjective)
  • 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.
  •hopeless (adjective)
  • desperate,
  • spiritless.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • Fretting,
  • crabby,
  • bearish,
  • oversensitive,
  • grumbling,
  • easily offended,
  • out of humor.
  •joyless (adjective)
  • have blahs,
  • most depressant,
  • more depressant.
  •livid (adjective)
  • pasty,
  • most greyish,
  • more greyish.
  •low (adjective)
  • low-down,
  • lowdown,
  • down and out,
  • lower.
  •low-spirited (adjective)
  • low spirited,
  • lowspirited.
  •lowering (adjective)
  • overhanging,
  • over hanging.
  •lugubrious (adjective)
  • Woful.
  •melancholic (adjective)
  • taken down,
  • in the toilet.
  •melancholy (adjective)
  • more saddened,
  • most mirthless,
  • most saddened,
  • more mirthless.
  •miserable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •moody (adjective)
  • more moping,
  • shorttempered,
  • more piqued,
  • out sorts,
  • most piqued,
  • most moping,
  • introspective,
  • in huff,
  • short tempered.
  •morose (adjective)
  • having blahs,
  • most perversive,
  • more perversive.
  •muddy (adjective)
  • 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.
  •negative (adjective)
  • anti,
  • unaffirmative,
  • naysaying,
  • unenthusiastic,
  • Refusing,
  • Privative,
  • recusant,
  • dissentient.
  •obscure (adjective)
  • Fuliginous,
  • more obfuscated,
  • most fuliginous,
  • most obfuscated,
  • more fuliginous.
  •ominous (adjective)
  • 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.
  •oppressive (adjective)
  • 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.
  •perturbing (adjective)
  • dis quieting,
  • dis-quieting.
  •pessimistic (adjective)
  • most fatalistic,
  • dis trustful,
  • more fatalistic,
  • re signed,
  • re-signed,
  • dis-trustful.
  •sable (adjective)
  • jettiest,
  • more raven,
  • more ebon,
  • jettier,
  • jetty,
  • most raven,
  • most ebon.
  •sad (adjective)
  • in grief,
  • sick heart,
  • more grieved,
  • be reaved,
  • be-reaved,
  • most grieved,
  • most bereaved,
  • more bereaved.
  •somber (adjective)
  • more sourpuss,
  • nononsense,
  • most sourpuss.
  •sulky (adjective)
  • more pouting,
  • most sulking,
  • more sourpussed,
  • poutier,
  • with-drawn,
  • with drawn,
  • more sulking,
  • poutiest,
  • most pouting,
  • most sourpussed.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • cantankerous,
  • beetle-browed,
  • ungenial,
  • uncooperative,
  • obstinate,
  • mean,
  • frowning,
  • grumpy,
  • scowling,
  • contrary,
  • hostile,
  • glowering,
  • unfriendly,
  • dissociable,
  • malevolent,
  • noncooperative.
  •tenebrous (adjective)
  • more amphibological,
  • un-intelligible,
  • more unexplicit,
  • un explicit,
  • most unexplicit,
  • most amphibological,
  • Amphibological,
  • unexplicit,
  • un-explicit.
  •ugly (adjective)
  • fellest.
  •unhappy (adjective)
  • 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.
  •unsettling (adjective)
  • un settling,
  • un-settling.
  •upsetting (adjective)
  • up setting,
  • up-setting.
  •woeful (adjective)
  • dis-graceful,
  • in adequate,
  • in-adequate,
  • dis graceful.
  •wretched (adjective)
  • more bummed,
  • most bummed.

• n.

  •
  • chilling,
  • spooky,
  • eerie,
  • menacing,
  • intimidating,
  • frightening,
  • alarming,
  • awesome,
  • scary.
  •
  • broken.
  •
  • hope.
  •drab (noun)
  • drab.
  •gloomful (noun)
  • gloomful.
  •glooming (noun)
  • glooming.
  •gloomy (noun)
  • sorry,
  • uncheerful.
  •naysayer (noun)
  • prophet doom.
  •pessimist (noun)
  • worrywarts.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • 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.
  •
  • hopelessly,
  • cut-up,
  • oppressed,
  • suicidal,
  • subdued,
  • regretfully,
  • claustrophobic,
  • flattened,
  • woefully.
  •
  • distressed,
  • sadly,
  • injured.
  •
  • cranky.
  •
  • heavy.
  •cloudy
  • sunless.
  •in low spirits
  • heavy-hearted.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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.

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.