gloomful vs glooming what difference
what is difference between gloomful and glooming
English
Etymology
gloom + -ful
Adjective
gloomful (comparative more gloomful, superlative most gloomful)
- (archaic or poetic) gloomy
English
Etymology 1
Verb
glooming
- 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.
- 1932, D. H. Lawrence, The Lovely Lady
Etymology 2
Compare gloaming.
Noun
glooming (plural gloomings)
- 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
- 1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, To my God-Child, on the Day of his Baptism
- Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.
Synonyms
- (twilight): crepuscule, twilight, vespers; see also Thesaurus:twilight
- (gloomy behaviour): misery, sadness, sorrow, woe
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