gloom
noun [U] (WITHOUT HOPE) /ɡluːm/Definition
› feelings of great unhappiness and loss of hope: Bergman's films are often full of gloom and despair. There is widespread gloom and doom about the company's future.Sadness and regretNot hopeful
(Definition of gloom noun (WITHOUT HOPE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be in a funk idiom
- be on a hiding to nothing idiom
- bleak adjective
- defeatist adjective
- dejected adjective
- despair verb
- dim adjective (NOT POSITIVE)
- downcast adjective (UNHAPPY)
- downhearted adjective
- forlorn adjective (UNLIKELY TO SUCCEED)
- gloomy adjective (WITHOUT HOPE)
- glum adjective
- grim adjective (WITHOUT HOPE)
- hopeless adjective
- negativism noun
- not give much for sb's chances idiom
- not have a hope in hell idiom
- pessimism noun
- pessimistic adjective
- what are you going to do? idiom
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