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[syn: glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gloom \Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Glooming.]
1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
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2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or
sad; to come to the evening twilight.
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The black gibbet glooms beside the way. --Goldsmith.
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[This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.
--Spenser.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Glooming \Gloom"ing\, n. [Cf. Gloaming.]
Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.
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When the faint glooming in the sky
First lightened into day. --Trench.
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The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. --Tennyson.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
glooming
adj 1: depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming
interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" [syn:
glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky]