noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.

   "When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day"

2. 2
   Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.

   "What devil, woman! pluck up your heart, and leave off all this glooming."

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of gloom form-of, gerund, participle, present

Adjective

1. 1
   depressingly dark wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

gloamingcloudedcloudycrepusculeduskfunereal

Example

More examples

"When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day"

Etymology

Compare gloaming.

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