glooming

English

Etymology 1

Verb

glooming

  1. present participle of gloom
    • D. H. Lawrence
      Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.

Etymology 2

Compare gloaming.

Noun

glooming (plural gloomings)

  1. twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming
    When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day. — Trench.
    The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. — Tennyson.
  2. gloomy behaviour; melancholy
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