glooming

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Verb

1. present participle of gloom#English|gloom

   • Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.

Noun

glooming (plural gloomings)

1. Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.

   • When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Gardener's Daughter; or, The Pictures

     the balmy glooming, crescent-lit

2. Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.

Synonyms

• (twilight) crepuscule, twilight, vespers; see also Thesaurus:twilight
• (gloomy behaviour) misery, sadness, sorrow, woe

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