gloomful vs glooming what difference

what is difference between gloomful and glooming

English

Etymology

gloom +‎ -ful

Adjective

gloomful (comparative more gloomful, superlative most gloomful)

1. (archaic or poetic) gloomy

English

Etymology 1

Verb

glooming

1. present participle of gloom
   • 1932, D. H. Lawrence, The Lovely Lady

     Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.

Etymology 2

Compare gloaming.

Noun

glooming (plural gloomings)

1. Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.
   • 1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, To my God-Child, on the Day of his Baptism

     When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures

     the balmy glooming, crescent-lit

2. Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.

Synonyms

• (twilight): crepuscule, twilight, vespers; see also Thesaurus:twilight
• (gloomy behaviour): misery, sadness, sorrow, woe

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