gloominess

  • 111obscurity — n. 1. Darkness, dimness, gloom, gloominess, shade, obscuration, cloud, obfuscation, opacity. 2. Unintelligibleness, darkness of meaning. 3. Humbleness. 4. Seclusion, retirement, privacy …

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  • 112sadness — n. 1. Sorrow, despondency, sorrowfulness, mournfulness, melancholy, depression, dejection. 2. Gloominess, mournfulness, heaviness, grief, sorrow, dolefulness. 3. Seriousness, sedateness, gravity …

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  • 113sullenness — n. 1. Moroseness, moodiness, sourness, churlishness, spleen, sulkiness, ill temper, bad blood. 2. Gloominess, sombreness, dismalness. 3. Sluggishness, slowness, heaviness. 4. Obstinacy, intractableness, stubbornness, intractability. 5. Malignity …

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  • 114the blues — Melancholy, dejection, depression, gloominess, sadness, despondency, hypochondria, dumps, megrims, vapors, low spirits, blue devils, depression of spirits, the dismals, doldrums …

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  • 115melancholy — I. n. Dejection, depression, gloominess, sadness, gloom, despondency, hypochondria, blues, blue devils, dumps, vapors, low spirits, depression of spirits. II. a. 1. Dejected, dispirited, depressed, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, disconsolate, doleful,… …

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  • 116gloomy — adjective 1 sad because you think the situation will not improve: When I saw their gloomy faces, I knew something was wrong. 2 making you feel that things will not improve: a gloomy economic forecast 3 dark, especially in a way that seems sad:… …

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  • 117doldrums — plural noun winter doldrums in the doldrums Syn: depression, melancholy, gloom, gloominess, downheartedness, dejection, despondency, low spirits, despair; inertia, apathy, listlessness, blahs, blue funk, blues …

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  • 118gloom — noun 1) she peered into the gloom Syn: darkness, dark, dimness, blackness, murkiness, shadows, shade; dusk, twilight, gloaming Ant: light 2) his gloom deepened …

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  • 119gravity — noun 1) the gravity of the situation Syn: seriousness, importance, significance, weight, consequence, magnitude; acuteness, urgency, exigence; awfulness, dreadfulness; formal moment 2) the gravity of his demeanor Syn …

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  • 120melancholy — 1. adjective a melancholy expression Syn: sad, sorrowful, unhappy, desolate, mournful, lugubrious, gloomy, despondent, dejected, depressed, downhearted, downcast, disconsolate, glum, miserable, wretched, dismal, morose …

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