Gloaming

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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