Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Twilight; gloaming.
  • Dim; gloomy; dismal; lowering.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.

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  • verb Present participle of gloom.
  • noun twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming

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  • adjective depressingly dark

Etymologies

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Examples

  • But the lord of Bellister sat on, "glooming" morbidly to himself.

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

  • Here and there, too, the dusty-green reaches were pointed by the dark spire of a cypress, alone, in a kind of glooming isolation; here and there a blossoming peach or almond, gaily pink, sent an inexpressible little thrill of gladness to one's heart.

    My Friend Prospero Henry Harland 1883

  • With one accord they all looked at the stranger, for they had hardly seem him well in the glooming twilight.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • Nor to be honest is the need for total glooming and dooming about the sixties "generation" quite as self-evident as Geoffrey implies.

    My generation squandered our golden opportunity | Geoffrey Wheatcroft 2010

  • Alas, "he shook his head, glooming," more have promised than performed; his treasury is low, his army stout of heart but few in number, and even those devoted leaders of opinion who wholeheartedly approve his end, shrink timidly at the mention of his means.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • I soar to Adria's wave-beat shore and to the waters of Eridanus; where a father's hapless daughters in their grief for Phaethon distil into the glooming flood the amber brilliance of their tears.

    Hippolytus 2008

  • Her peevishness, his coldness; her bubble-brained woman's magazine wisdom, his Spenglerian glooming about modern civilization.

    Throne Out 2008

  • I soar to Adria's wave-beat shore and to the waters of Eridanus; where a father's hapless daughters in their grief for Phaethon distil into the glooming flood the amber brilliance of their tears.

    Hippolytus 2008

  • There was the resentful Sunday of a little later, when he sat down glowering and glooming through the tardy length of the day, with a sullen sense of injury in his heart, and no more real knowledge of the beneficent history of the New Testament than if he had been bred among idolaters.

    Little Dorrit 2007

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