Gloaming \Gloam"ing\, n. [See Gloom.]
1. Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening. [Scot. & North of
Eng., and in poetry.] --Hogg.
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2. Sullenness; melancholy. [Obs.] --J. Still.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gloaming
n : the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the
twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn:
twilight, dusk, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule,
crepuscle]
WordNet (r) 2.0
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "gloaming":
bad light, brown of dusk, brownness, candlelight, candlelighting,
cocklight, crepuscule, darkishness, darksomeness, deadness, dim,
dim light, dimness, dimpsy, drabness, dullness, dusk, duskiness,
duskingtide, duskness, eventide, flatness, gloam, glooming,
half-light, lack of sparkle, lackluster, lifelessness,
lusterlessness, mat, mat finish, murk, murkiness, nightfall,
owllight, partial darkness, semidark, somberness, twilight
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, nightfall, twilight
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