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Meaning of GLOOMING

Pronunciation:  'glooming

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"
 
 Synonyms: dark, gloomful, gloomy
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Gloom"ing\, n. [Cf. {Gloaming}.]
Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.
      When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into
      day.                                     --Trench.
      The balmy glooming, crescent-lit.        --Tennyson.
 

 

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