glooming

English

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.
    • Trench
      When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day
    • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
      the balmy glooming, crescent-lit
  2. Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.
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