Emotions

Synonyms for gloom

Synonyms for gloom: melancholy and dejection. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The 2 synonyms for gloom

Interchangeable with gloom in this sense

Audited under gloom's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one gloom carries in that sense.

melancholynoun, in the sense "a feeling of depression or low spirits"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name gloom as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

dejectiondejection is a noun in the sense "a state of low spirits caused by disappointment or failure"

Two directions, one standard: one audited under gloom and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineEmotions

a feeling of depression or low spirits

A sense of gloom settled over the office after the layoffs were announced.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

melancholy

Same sentence, swapped: A sense of melancholy settled over the office after the layoffs were announced.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for gloom in the sentence quoted.

anger
excitement
pride

Where gloom turns up in the game

gloom is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where gloom is the trap

smellnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is look, in the sense "the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people", with gloom sitting one tile away.
forebodingnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is premonition, in the sense "a feeling of evil to come", so gloom is there to be ruled out.

Play gloom

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gloom reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Closest first: other emotions words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. gloom carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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