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GLOOMING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does glooming mean?
• GLOOMING (adjective)
The adjective GLOOMING has 1 sense:
1. depressingly dark
Familiarity information: GLOOMING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Depressingly dark
Synonyms:
gloomful; glooming; gloomy; sulky
Context example:
'gloomful' is archaic
Similar:
dark (devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black)
Context examples
Did I not, in my truest thoughts, always recurring and always dismissed, see past the beauty of the face, and, peering into the soul, discern the twin shadows of selfishness and of fickleness glooming at the back of it?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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