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glooms
[gloomz] 
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gloom
[gloom]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | melancholy, depression |
| Synonyms: | anguish, bitterness, blue devils, blue funk, blues, catatonia, chagrin, cheerlessness, dejection, desolation, despair, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, dismals, distress, doldrums, dolor, downheartedness, dullness, dumps, foreboding, grief, heaviness, heavy-heartedness, horror, low spirits, malaise, misery, misgiving, mopes, morbidity, mourning, oppression, pensiveness, pessimism, sadness, saturninity, sorrow, unhappiness, vexation, weariness, woe |
| Antonyms: | animation, cheer, contentedness, encouragement, happiness, joy, sparkle, vivaciousness |
| Main Entry: | blues |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression |
| Synonyms: | dejection, despondency, doldrums, dumps, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heavy heart, low spirits, melancholy, moodiness, mournfulness, sadness, the dismals, the mopes, unhappiness |
| Antonyms: | euphoria, gaiety, gladness, happiness |
| Main Entry: | brood |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | agonize over |
| Synonyms: | be in brown study, bleed, chafe inwardly, consider, daydream, deliberate, despond, dream, dwell upon, eat one's heart out, fret, gloom, grieve, lament, languish, meditate, mope, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, repine, ruminate, sigh, speculate, stew over, sulk, sweat out, sweat over, think about, think upon, worry |
| Antonyms: | not worry |
| Main Entry: | cloud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mass of water particles in air |
| Synonyms: | billow, brume, darkness, dimness, film, fog, fogginess, frost, gloom, haze, haziness, mare's tail, mist, murk, nebula, nebulosity, obscurity, ol' buttermilk sky, overcast, pea soup, pother, puff, rack, scud, sheep, smog, smoke, smother, steam, thunderhead, vapor, veil, woolpack |
| Main Entry: | cloud |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become foggy or obscured |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, becloud, befog, blur, darken, dim, eclipse, envelop, fog, gloom, mist, obfuscate, overcast, overshadow, shade, shadow, veil |
| Antonyms: | clear, unfog, unveil |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place, time without light |
| Synonyms: | caliginosity, darkness, dead of night, dimness, dusk, duskiness, evening, gloom, midnight, murk, murkiness, night, nightfall, nighttime, obscurity, opacity, semidarkness, shade, shadows, twilight, witching hour |
| Antonyms: | brightness, day, daylight, daytime, illumination, light, lightness, morning |
| Main Entry: | darkness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place, time that is unlit |
| Synonyms: | Cimmerian shade, black, blackness, blackout, brownout, calignosity, cloudiness, crepuscule, dark, dimness, dusk, duskiness, eclipse, gloom, lightlessness, murk, murkiness, nightfall, obscurity, pitch darkness, shade, shadiness, shadows, smokiness, tenebrosity, twilight |
| Antonyms: | brightness, day, daylight, daytime, illumination, light, lightness, morning |
| Main Entry: | depression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | low spirits; despair |
| Synonyms: | abasement, abjection, abjectness, blahs, bleakness, blue funk, bummer, cheerlessness, dejection, desolation, desperation, despondency, disconsolation, discouragement, dispiritedness, distress, dole, dolefulness, dolor, downheartedness, dreariness, dullness, dumps, ennui, gloom, gloominess, heaviness of heart, heavyheartedness, hopelessness, lowness, lugubriosity, melancholia, melancholy, misery, mortification, qualm, sadness, sorrow, the blues, trouble, unhappiness, vapors, woefulness, worry |
| Antonyms: | cheerfulness, encouragement, happiness, hope, hopefulness |
| Main Entry: | desolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distress, unhappiness |
| Synonyms: | anguish, dejection, despair, gloom, gloominess, loneliness, melancholy, misery, mourning, sadness, sorrow, woe, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | cheer, comfort, happiness, joy |
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