GLOOMY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for GLOOMY?

Need another word that means the same as “gloomy”? Find 78 synonyms and 30 related words for “gloomy” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Gloomy” are: gloomful, glooming, sulky, blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, grim, sorry, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, low, low-spirited, poorly lit, shadowy, sunless, dim, sombre, frowzy, murky, depressing, unwelcoming, uninviting, cheerless, joyless, comfortless, funereal, despondent, dejected, crestfallen, disappointed, disheartened, discouraged, demoralized, desolate, in low spirits, sad, unhappy, glum, full of gloom, doleful, melancholy, miserable, woebegone, mournful, sorrowful, forlorn, long-faced, in the doldrums, subdued, wretched, lugubrious, morose, sepulchral, saturnine, dour, mirthless, woeful, pessimistic, downbeat, disheartening, disappointing, dispiriting, unpromising, unfavourable, bleak, bad, black, distressing, hopeless

Gloomy as an Adjective

Definitions of "Gloomy" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “gloomy” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Dark or poorly lit, especially so as to appear depressing or frightening.
• Filled with melancholy and despondency.
• Causing dejection.
• Causing or feeling depression or despondency.
• Depressingly dark.

Synonyms of "Gloomy" as an adjective (78 Words)

bad	Feeling physical discomfort or pain tough is occasionally used colloquially for bad. The news was very bad.
black	Relating to black people. As black as coal.
bleak	(of an area of land) lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements. He paints a bleak picture of a company that has lost its way.
blue	Of a ski run of the second lowest level of difficulty as indicated by blue markers positioned along it. Blue laws.
cheerless	Gloomy; depressing. Something cheerless about the room.
comfortless	Having or offering nothing that serves to ease feelings or grief or distress. A comfortless room.
crestfallen	Brought low in spirit. He came back empty handed and crestfallen.
dark	Having a dark hue. Dark green.
dejected	Affected or marked by low spirits. Is dejected but trying to look cheerful.
demoralized	Having lost confidence or hope; disheartened. Desperate demoralized people looking for work.
depressed	Filled with melancholy and despondency. Depressed inner city areas.
depressing	Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy. The economic outlook is depressing.
desolate	Providing no shelter or sustenance. Depressed and desolate of soul.
despondent	Without or almost without hope. She grew more and more despondent.
dim	Made dim or less bright. The matter was in the dim and distant past.
dingy	(of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear. A dirty or dingy white.
disappointed	Sad or displeased because someone or something has failed to fulfil one’s hopes or expectations. Thousands of disappointed customers were kept waiting.
disappointing	Not up to expectations. A disappointing performance from one who had seemed so promising.
disconsolate	Very unhappy and unable to be comforted. A disconsolate winter landscape.
discouraged	Made less hopeful or enthusiastic. Felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem.
disheartened	Made less hopeful or enthusiastic. The disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest.
disheartening	Destructive of morale and self-reliance. Her death is particularly disheartening because it was preventable.
dismal	Causing dejection. The dismal weather made the late afternoon seem like evening.
dispirited	Having lost enthusiasm and hope; disheartened. A dispirited and divided Party.
dispiriting	Destructive of morale and self-reliance. It was a dispiriting occasion.
distressing	Bad; unfortunate. Distressing or disturbing news.
doleful	Causing grief or misfortune. A doleful look.
dour	Stubbornly unyielding. A dour self sacrificing life.
down	Denoting a flavour variety of stable quark having relatively low mass and an electric charge of 1 3 In the Standard Model protons and neutrons are composed of up and down quarks. Had his algebra problems down.
down in the mouth	Extending or moving from a higher to a lower place.
downbeat	Pessimistic or gloomy. He responds to her enthusiasm with downbeat bemusement.
downcast	Filled with melancholy and despondency. Downcast after his defeat.
downhearted	Filled with melancholy and despondency. Fans must not be downhearted even though we lost.
drab	Of a light brownish green color. Drab camouflage uniforms.
drear	Causing dejection.
dreary	Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise. The dreary round of working eating and trying to sleep.
forlorn	Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely. Forlorn figures at bus stops.
frowzy	Scruffy and neglected in appearance. Frowzy white hair.
full of gloom	Having the normally expected amount.
funereal	Having the mournful, sombre character appropriate to a funeral. Funereal gloom.
gloomful	Depressingly dark. Gloomful is archaic.
glooming	Depressingly dark. The glooming interior of an old inn.
glum	Moody and melancholic. A glum hopeless shrug.
grim	Harshly ironic or sinister. Grim determination.
hopeless	Certain to fail. I m hopeless at mathematics.
in low spirits	Currently fashionable.
in the doldrums	Holding office.
joyless	Not giving or feeling any pleasure or satisfaction; grim or dismal. She had to face the thought of a joyless future.
long-faced	Having a face longer than the usual.
low	Subdued or brought low in condition or status. The sun is low.
low-spirited	Filled with melancholy and despondency.
lugubrious	Excessively mournful. His face looked even more lugubrious than usual.
melancholy	Having a feeling of melancholy sad and pensive. Growing more melancholy every hour.
mirthless	(of a smile or laugh) lacking real amusement and typically expressing irony. He gave a short mirthless laugh.
miserable	Very unhappy; full of misery. You miserable old creep.
morose	Showing a brooding ill humor- Bruce Bli. She was morose and silent when she got home.
mournful	Filled with or evoking sadness. Stared with mournful eyes.
murky	Clouded as with sediment. Murky waters.
pessimistic	Expecting the worst possible outcome. He was pessimistic about the prospects.
poorly lit	Somewhat ill or prone to illness.
sad	Of things that make you feel sad Christina Rossetti. Her clothes were in sad shape.
saturnine	Showing a brooding ill humor- Bruce Bli. His saturnine face and dark watchful eyes.
sepulchral	Gloomy; dismal. A speech delivered in sepulchral tones.
shadowy	Of uncertain identity or nature. A long shadowy cobbled passage.
sombre	Grave or even gloomy in character. The night skies were sombre and starless.
sorrowful	Experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss- Proverbs 14:13. Sorrowful news.
sorry	Used as a polite request that someone should repeat something that one has failed to hear or understand. He looks a sorry sight with his broken jaw.
subdued	In a softened tone. Subdued lighting.
sulky	Moving slowly. Disappointment was making her sulky.
sunless	Without any sun. The windowless sunless headquarters.
unfavourable	Not favorable. Unfavourable economic conditions.
unhappy	Not happy. Unhappy caravans straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes.
uninviting	Not tempting. The house was dark and uninviting.
unpromising	Not giving hope of future success or good results. The boy s natural intellect had survived in unpromising circumstances.
unwelcoming	Having an inhospitable or uninviting quality. Jean crept into her cold and unwelcoming bed.
woebegone	Worn and broken down by hard use. His sorrow made him look haggard and woebegone.
woeful	Affected by or full of grief or woe. Woeful errors of judgment.
wretched	Of poor quality; very bad. Spent a wretched night on the floor.

Usage Examples of "Gloomy" as an adjective

• A gloomy silence.
• A dark gloomy day.
• A gloomy corridor badly lit by oil lamps.
• Gloomy predictions.
• Gloomy at the thought of what he had to face.
• Gloomy forecasts about the economy.
• The gloomy forest.

Associations of "Gloomy" (30 Words)

bleak	(of a building or room) charmless and inhospitable; dreary. The bleak treeless regions of the high Andes.
cheerless	Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy. The corridors were ill lit and cheerless.
contemplative	A person devoted to the contemplative life. She regarded me with a contemplative eye.
dejected	Sad and depressed; dispirited. He stood in the street looking dejected.
depressed	(of a place or economic activity) suffering the damaging effects of a lack of demand or employment. Depressed by the loss of his job.
despair	A state in which all hope is lost or absent. They were rescued from despair at the last minute.
despairing	Showing the loss of all hope. The last despairing plea of the condemned criminal.
despondent	Without or almost without hope. She grew more and more despondent.
dingy	Discolored by impurities; not bright and clear is often used in combination. A dirty or dingy white.
disconsolate	Very unhappy and unable to be comforted. A disconsolate winter landscape.
discouraged	Lacking in resolution. Felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem.
dismal	(of a person or their mood) gloomy. The first dismal dispiriting days of November.
dispirited	Filled with melancholy and despondency. A dispirited and resigned expression on her face.
dour	Showing a brooding ill humor. A hard dour humourless fanatic.
drab	Clothes especially trousers made of drab. The landscape was drab and grey.
dreary	Causing dejection. The dreary round of working eating and trying to sleep.
gloom	A feeling of melancholy apprehension. A black yew gloom d the stagnant air.
glum	Looking or feeling dejected; morose. A glum hopeless shrug.
grim	Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance. Grim determination.
hopeless	Without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success. With a hopeless sigh he sat down.
melancholy	A humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy. We acquainted him with the melancholy truth.
mourning	State of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one. If he dies she ll put on mourning but she won t cry.
nostalgia	Something done or presented in order to evoke feelings of nostalgia. An evening of TV nostalgia.
pensive	Showing pensive sadness. A pensive mood.
pessimistic	Expecting the worst possible outcome. He was pessimistic about the prospects.
sadden	Cause to feel sorrow; make unhappy. He was greatly saddened by the death of his only son.
somber	Grave or even gloomy in character. A somber mood.
sulky	Sullen or moody. She had a sultry sulky mouth.
sullen	Bad-tempered and sulky. A sullen crowd.
wistful	Showing pensive sadness. The sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty.