GLOOMING • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Glooming

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

Glooming n. Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming. "When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day." "The balmy glooming, crescent-lit."

verb

Gloom v. t.

To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. "A bow window... gloomed with limes." "A black yew gloomed the stagnant air."

To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. "Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy." "What sorrows gloomed that parting day."

Gloom v. i. (past & past part. gloomed; pres. part. glooming)

To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. "The black gibbet glooms beside the way." "(This weary day)... at last I see it gloom."

See images of 'Glooming'

Etymology of 'Glooming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Glooming" Quotes from Famous Books

... after dinner. Varr went off to his study and shut himself in, his wife pleaded a headache, and with a word of apology to her sister departed for her bedroom. Ocky, amiably anxious to distract her nephew's thoughts from whatever he was glooming over, suggested a game of chess. Finding this had not been included in his college curriculum, she announced that she would settle herself in the living-room with some new ...

— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston

... a blaze of light. With one accord they all looked at the stranger, for they had hardly seen him well in the glooming twilight. The woman started in amazement and the colonel half rose in anger. Why, the man was a mulatto, surely; even if he did not own the Negro blood, their practised eyes knew it. He was tall and ...

— Darkwater - Voices From Within The Veil • W. E. B. Du Bois

... out of his thoughtful glooming as if a reviving wind had struck his face, all alert again in a moment, but silent and inscrutable as before. He leaned his brand against the hitching post, recovered his rifle where it lay in the dust beside the scattered sticks of his fire, making himself ...

— Trail's End • George W. Ogden

... had been winking farewells to us over the rim above, dropped out of sight as suddenly as though it had fallen into a well. From the bottom the shadows went slanting along the glooming walls of the gorges, swallowing up the yellow patches of sunlight that still lingered near the top like blacksnakes swallowing eggs. Every second the colors shifted and changed; what had been blue a moment before was now purple and in another minute would be a velvety black. ...

— Roughing it De Luxe • Irvin S. Cobb

... are blooming All the graces I desire: Thus you goad me to the treason of content: If ever, when your brow is glooming, Softer faces I admire, Then your lightnings ...

— Ionica • William Cory (AKA William Johnson)

More quotes...