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Meaning of glooming | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.
  2. Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.

Examples

“When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day”
“[T]he balmy glooming, crescent-lit, / Spread the light haze along the river-shores, / And in the hollows; […]”
“What devil, woman! pluck up your heart, and leave off all this glooming.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

gloomleader Glooms gloomster gloomth Gloomy gloomy goose

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