glooms
Sinks into melancholy
Glooms is the plural of gloom or its verb form.
As a noun, glooms are instances of darkness or melancholy: the glooms of winter, fits of glooms and rages.
As a verb, to gloom is to look sullen or be dark: He glooms in the corner while everyone else celebrates.
Subdued, lasting sadness
- despondencyProfound loss of hope
- sadnessState of emotional pain
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- dejectionState of lowness
heaviness · bleakness · desolation · woe · dismalness · cheerlessness · joylessness · moodiness
State of dispiriting dullness
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- drabnessAbsence of color or interest
- sombernessGrave, serious quality
- oppressivenessCrushing, burdensome quality
foreboding · austerity · starkness · barrenness · desolation · grimness · pallor · lifelessness
melancholy
Subdued, lasting sadness
- despondencyProfound loss of hope
- sadnessState of emotional pain
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
dejection · heaviness · bleakness · desolation · woe · dismalness · cheerlessness · joylessness · moodiness · brooding
dreariness
State of dispiriting dullness
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- drabnessAbsence of color or interest
- sombernessGrave, serious quality
oppressiveness · foreboding · austerity · starkness · barrenness · desolation · grimness · pallor · lifelessness · emptiness
shadow
Light blocked by object
dimness · murk · obscurity · penumbra · umbra · shade · overcast · cloudiness · murkiness · shadowiness
gloomsbrightens
Makes lighter or cheerier
illuminates · lights · shines · radiates · glows
gloomsjoys
Feelings of great pleasure
elations · delights · lightheartedness · cheers · cheerfulness
- doom and gloomPersistent negative outlook
- gloom and doomPervasive negative expectation
- gathering gloom
- Gloomy GusHabitually melancholy person
- June gloomCoastal cloud cover, late spring