Gloaming

Quick meaning: Gloaming is a noun meaning Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.

Meaning

Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.

More Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of gloam
2. (obsolete) Sullenness; melancholy.

Example Sentences

Where in purple hue, the hieland hills we view / And the moon coming out in the gloaming.

Your alarm bells, your alarm / They should be ringing, they should be ringing / This is the gloaming

I clung to her nipples as she soared and swooped through the gloaming, scooping up insects, and I remember the shapes of things that she flew between, above, beneath.

You may imagine the young people brushed up after the labours of the day, and making this novelty, as they would make any novelty, the excuse for walking together and enjoying a trivial flirtation. You may figure to yourself the hum of voices along the road in the gloaming[…]

Word Forms

• gloamings

Synonyms for gloaming

Depending on context, synonyms include crepuscule, glooming, vespers, crepusculum, dimmet, evenglome.

Antonyms for gloaming

Common opposites include daytime, daylight, nighttime, darkness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include evenfall, dusk, nightfall, twilight, fall, een.

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