Synonyms for glooming

Most common

misery · sadness · sorrow · gloaming · twilight · vespers

All synonyms

Noun

Definitions

1. n. 1

   Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.

Forms

Plural

gloomings → miseries, sadnesses, sorrows, gloamings…

Example sentences

• misery Tom blamed all his misery on planned obsolescence.
• sadness There was also an irrefutable sadness in his eyes.
• sorrow To my sorrow, my father cannot attend the meeting.
• gloaming He paced up and down the ship's deck in the gloaming.
• twilight We find ourselves in the twilight of our civilization.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters

woe¹

6 letters

misery³, sorrow²

7 letters

sadness², vespers

8 letters

twilight², gloaming²

10 letters

crepuscule

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (misery³ = 3 syllables).