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Definition of Glooming
1. Adjective. Depressingly dark. "`gloomful' is archaic"
Definition of Glooming
1. n. Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.
Definition of Glooming
1. Verb. (present participle of gloom) ¹
2. Noun. twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Glooming
1. gloaming [n -S] - See also: gloaming
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glooming
Literary usage of Glooming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Log of the Snark by Charmian London (1915)
"sea; the rest of us finished supper, sat on deck a little while, watching the
glooming islets, and when Jack and I went below, he unpacked his two old ..."
2. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829)
"... magnificent, Л wet] from the throne aloof-—and when «form-rent Disclosed the
thunder-glooming* in Jov*'> .кг. But soothed as now, ll.tsh'd sudden ..."
3. The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, from the Best Writers by Lindley Murray (1830)
"8 Tho' in the paths of death I tread, With glooming horrors overspread, For thou,
6 Lord, art with me still; My steadfast heart shall fear no ill; ..."
4. The Magazine of Poetry by Charles Wells Moulton (1891)
"... whirling spray dank as the breath Of manes glooming, when the sea beneath
Smote angry fists, till life—sense falling broke About me, gods! ..."
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