Gloomy synonyms

Bad, stygian, eeyorish, and adust are all synonyms for gloomy. Bright, sunny, and well lit are antonyms of gloomy. And here are 101 another word for gloomy.

Another word for gloomy

1. dingy

  • Stygian
  • Tartarean
  • Caliginous
  • Cheerless
  • Cloudy
  • Comfortless
  • Crepuscular
  • Dark
  • Depressing
  • Dim
  • Dingy
  • Dismal
  • Drab
  • Dreary
  • Frowzy
  • Funereal
  • Grey
  • Ill-lit
  • Joyless
  • Leaden
  • Murky
  • Overcast
  • Poorly lit
  • Shadowy
  • Sombre
  • Sunless
  • Tenebrous
  • Uninviting
  • Unwelcoming
  • Subfusc

2. dejected

  • Eeyorish
  • Adust
  • Bad
  • Black
  • Bleak
  • Blue
  • Brassed off
  • Cast down
  • Chap-fallen
  • Cheerless
  • Cheesed off
  • Comfortless
  • Crestfallen
  • Dark
  • Dejected
  • Demoralized
  • Depressed
  • Depressing
  • Desolate
  • Despondent
  • Disappointed
  • Disappointing
  • Disconsolate
  • Discouraged
  • Disheartened
  • Disheartening
  • Dispirited
  • Dispiriting
  • Distressing
  • Doleful
  • Dolorous
  • Dour
  • Down in the dumps
  • Down in the mouth
  • Down
  • Downbeat
  • Downcast
  • Downhearted
  • Fed up
  • Forlorn
  • Full of gloom
  • Glum
  • Grim
  • Heavy-hearted
  • In low spirits
  • In the doldrums
  • Long-faced
  • Looking on the black side
  • Low-spirited
  • Lugubrious
  • Melancholy
  • Mirthless
  • Miserable
  • Morose
  • Mournful
  • Pessimistic
  • Sad
  • Saddening
  • Saturnine
  • Sepulchral
  • Sombre
  • Sorrowful
  • Subdued
  • Unfavourable
  • Unhappy
  • Unpromising
  • Woebegone
  • Woeful
  • Wretched
  • Hopeless

Gloomy synonyms statistics

The adjective "gloomy" has a variety of synonyms that differ in length. 3 synonyms with 3 letters, 9 synonyms with 4 letters, 6 synonyms with 5 letters, 10 synonyms with 6 letters, 8 synonyms with 7 letters, 11 synonyms with 8 letters, 13 synonyms with 9 letters, 12 synonyms with 10 letters, 14 synonyms with 11 letters, 6 synonyms with 12 letters, 3 synonyms with 13 letters, 2 synonyms with 14 letters, and 1 synonym with 21 letters, for a total of 98 synonyms for gloomy.

Gloomy sentences

The sky looks particularly gloomy today.

She felt gloomy about the situation.

It was a gloomy winter afternoon.

His mood turned gloomy after news.


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Look Ignore, disregard Glance, gaze
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