Synonyms of doomy

doomy

adjective

ˈdü-mē 

as in ominous

being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come

the surging doomy music in the background was an unmistakable sign that things would not end well for the movie's hero

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ominous
• sinister
• menacing
• bleak
• somber
• threatening
• dark
• foreboding
• portentous
• depressive
• murky
• darkening
• direful
• lonely
• dire
• depressing
• inauspicious
• minatory
• black
• desolate
• baleful
• ill
• gray
• unfortunate
• ill-boding
• morbid
• gloomy
• cold
• morose
• lugubrious
• sepulchral
• cheerless
• dim
• elegiac
• funereal
• unfavorable
• sullen
• saturnine
• dreary
• dismal
• glum
• lonesome
• drear
• troubled
• discouraging
• disconsolate
• cloudy
• chill
• comfortless
• miserable
• forlorn
• hopeless
• unpropitious
• evil
• unpromising
• tenebrous
• disheartening
• plutonian
• malignant
• dreich
• godforsaken
• Cimmerian
• wretched
• unlucky
• sunless
• malign
• tenebrific
• ill-starred
• ill-fated
• star-crossed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• favorable
• bright
• golden
• benign
• promising
• prosperous
• hopeful
• unthreatening
• encouraging
• auspicious
• propitious
• heartening

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of doomy

As the song progresses, more elements—slow-moving filter sweeps, waltzing arpeggios, a deep and doomy bassline—appear and disappear, moving into the fore of the stereo field before corroding and flaking away. — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 29 Jan. 2026

The runner-up, sanewashing, was doomy, but more of a criticism of how the media handled Trump than of Trump himself. — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025

Guadagnino encourages our doubts, shooting Maggie in exaggerated horror-movie closeups set to the doomy bass notes and shrieking winds of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s score. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025

On the one hand, the music nestled alongside the doomy Goth rock of the Cure and Siouxie and the Banshees. — David Chiu, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025