glooming

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

depressingly dark“the gloomy forest”“the glooming interior of an old inn”“`gloomful' is archaic”Synonyms: gloomy gloomful sulky

Gloom \Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glooming.]

1.To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer. [1913 Webster]

2.To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. [1913 Webster]

The black gibbet glooms beside the way.— Goldsmith.[1913 Webster]

[This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]

Glooming \Gloom"ing\, n. [Cf. Gloaming.] Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming. [1913 Webster]

When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day. --Trench. [1913 Webster]

The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]