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English Dictionary: glooming by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glooming
adj
  1. depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"
    Synonym(s): glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glooming \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gloom \Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gloomed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Glooming}.]
      1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
  
      2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or
            sad; to come to the evening twilight.
  
                     The black gibbet glooms beside the way. --Goldsmith.
  
                     [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.
                                                                              --Spenser.
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