glooming
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
glooming
- present participle and gerund of gloom
Etymology 2 edit
Compare gloaming.
Noun edit
glooming (plural gloomings)
- Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.
- 1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, To my God-Child, on the Day of his Baptism:
- When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 31:
- [T]he balmy glooming, crescent-lit, / Spread the light haze along the river-shores, / And in the hollows; […]
- Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.
- c. 1553, anonymous author, Gammer Gurton's Needle, London: Gibbings & Co. for the Early English Drama Society, published 1906, act 3, scene 3, page 35:
- What devil, woman! pluck up your heart, and leave off all this glooming.
Synonyms edit
- (twilight): crepuscule, twilight, vespers; see also Thesaurus:twilight
- (gloomy behaviour): misery, sadness, sorrow, woe