gloomingn.
/ˈɡluːmɪŋ/ 1. The action of frowning, etc.; a frown, scowl; a fit of sullenness.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > fit of
gloominga1400
dumpa1535
mubble fubbles1589
mulligrubs1599
mumps1599
mood1609
blues1741
mopes1742
gloom1744
humdrums1757
dismals1764
horror1768
mournfuls1794
doldrum1811
doleful1822
glumps1825
jim-jams1896
katzenjammer1897
the sniffles1903
mopery1907
joes1916
woofits1918
cafard1924
jimmies1928
the blahs1969
downer1970
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [noun] > fit of
gloominga1400
terret1515
momurdotesc1540
the sullens1580
pirr1581
pet1590
snuff1592
mulligrubs1599
mumps1599
geea1605
mood1609
miff1623
tetch1623
frumps1671
strunt1721
hump1727
tiff1727
tift1751
huff1757
tig1773
tout1787
sulk1792
twita1825
fantigue1825
fuff1834
grumps1844
spell1856
the grumbles1861
grouch1895
snit1939
mardy1968
moody1969
strop1970
sull1972
cream puff1985
mard1998
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > expression of ill humour > [noun] > frowning or scowling
louringa1250
gloominga1400
glumminga1450
gloutingc1460
brow-bending1542
scowling1575
a1400 Peter & Paul 74 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 77 Hetheli glowminge & wordes grete.
a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 146 From glowmyng thei come to schouldering; frome schouldering, thei go to buffettis.
1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Trivmph of Faith (1845) 259 Christ's gloomings..have much of heaven in them.
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvi. ix. 383 A great deal of trouble with his gloomings.
2. poetic. Twilight, gloaming; also, early dawn, morning twilight.[Perhaps an artificial adaptation for gloaming n. or Old English glómung.]
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall
nighteOE
evengloamOE
eveningOE
gloamingc1000
darknessa1382
twilighting1387
crepusculum1398
crepusculec1400
darkc1400
twilight1412
sky1515
twinlightc1532
day-going?1552
cockshut1592
shutting1598
blind man's holiday1599
candle-lighting1605
gropsing1606
nightfall1612
dusk1622
torchlighta1656
candlelight1663
crepuscle1665
shut1667
mock-shade1669
close1696
duskish1696
glooma1699
setting1699
dimmit1746
to-fall of the day or night1748
darklins1767
even-close1781
mirkning1790
gloaming-shot1793
darkening1814
bat-flying time1818
gloama1821
between-light1821
settle1822
dayfall1823
evenfall1825
onfall1825
owl-hoot1832
glooming1842
darkfall1884
smokefall1936
dusk-light1937
the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun]
aristc825
dawingc900
dayeOE
day-rimOE
day-redOE
mornOE
lightOE
lightingOE
dawning1297
day-rowa1300
grekinga1300
uprista1300
dayninga1325
uprisingc1330
sun arisingc1350
springc1380
springingc1380
day-springa1382
morrowingc1384
dayingc1400
daylighta1425
upspring1471
aurora1483
sky1515
orienta1522
breaking of the day1523
daybreak1530
day-peep1530
morrow dayc1530
peep of the morning1530
prick of the day?1533
morning1535
day-breaking1565
creek1567
sunup1572
breach of the day1579
break of day or morn1584
peep of day1587
uprise1594
dawna1616
day-dawn1616
peep of dawn1751
strike of day1790
skreigh1802
sunbreak1822
day-daw1823
screech1829
dayclean1835
sun dawn1835
first light1838
morning-red1843
piccaninny sun1846
piccaninny daylightc1860
gloaming1873
glooming1877
sparrow-fart1886
crack1887
sun-spring1900
piccaninny dawn1936
1842 Ld. Tennyson Gardener's Daughter in Poems (new ed.) II. 31 Or while the balmy glooming, crescent-lit, Spread the light haze along the river-shores.
1877 W. Morris Sigurd 315 Good tidings with the daybreak, fair fame with the glooming is born.
1879 R. C. Trench Poems 23 For where the watcher, who..could ever say When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day?
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gloomingadj.1
1. Sullen, frowning, scowling, melancholy.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective]
ungladc888
wearyc888
drearyc1000
dreary-moodOE
heavyc1000
unmerryOE
droopy?c1225
mournc1275
sada1300
languishinga1325
amayedc1330
matec1330
unlightc1330
unblissful1340
lowa1382
mishappyc1390
dullc1393
elengely1393
droopinga1400
heavy-hearteda1400
joylessa1400
sytefula1400
mornifc1400
tristy?c1400
lightless?1406
heartlessa1413
tristc1420
amatec1425
languoring?c1425
mirthlessc1430
heavisome1435
darkc1440
gloomingc1440
comfortlessc1460
amateda1470
chermatc1475
tristfula1492
lustless?1507
dolorous1513
ruthful1513
downcast1521
deject1528
heartsicka1529
lumpisha1535
coolc1540
dowlyc1540
glum1547
discouraged1548
uncheerfulc1555
dumpish1560
out of heart1565
sadded1566
amoped1573
tristive1578
desolated1580
dejected1581
à la mort1586
delightless1589
afflicted1590
gladless1590
groanful1590
gloomya1593
muddy1592
sitheful1592
cloudy1594
leaden-hearted1596
disconsolated1598
clum1599
life-weary1599
spiritless1600
dusky1602
chop-fallen1604
flat1604
disanimated1605
jaw-fallen1605
moped1606
chap-fallen1608
decheerful1608
uncheerful1612
lacklustrea1616
pulled1616
dumpya1618
depressed1621
head-hung1632
grum1640
downa1644
dispirited1647
down-at-mouth1649
down in (rarely of) the mouth1649
unhearted1650
sunlessa1658
sadful1658
unlightened1659
chagrin1665
saddened1665
damp1667
moping1674
desponding1688
tristitious1694
unenjoying1697
unraised1697
unheartya1699
unked1698
despondent1699
dismal1705
unjoyful1709
unrejoiced1714
dreara1717
disheartened1720
mumpish1721
unrejoicing1726
downhearted1742
out of spirits1745
chagrineda1754
low-spirited1753
sombrea1767
black-blooded1771
glumpy1780
oorie1787
sombrous1789
morose1791
Novemberish1793
glumpish1800
mopeful1800
die-away1802
blue-devilish1804
blue-devilled1807
malagrugrous1818
down in the hip1826
yonderly1828
sunshineless1831
downfaced1832
broody1851
in a (or the) trough1856
blue-devilly1871
drooped1873
glummy1884
pippy1886
humpy1889
pipped1914
lousy1933
pissed1943
crappy1956
doomy1961
bummed1970
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [adjective]
moodyc1300
distemprec1374
melancholiana1393
solein1399
darkc1440
gloomingc1440
girning1447
melancholyc1450
tetrical1528
tetric1533
distemperate1548
morose1565
sullen1570
stunt1581
humorous1590
gloomya1593
muddy1592
clum1599
dortya1605
humoursome1607
distempereda1616
musty1620
grum1640
agelastic1666
fusty1668
purdy1668
ill-humoured1693
gurly1721
mumpish1721
sunking1724
tetricous1727
sumphish1728
stunkard1737
sulky1744
muggard1746
farouche1765
sombrea1767
glumpy1780
glumpish1800
tiffy1810
splenitive1815
stuffy1825
liverish1828
troglodytish1866
glummy1884
humpy1889
scowly1951
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) liii. 233 But she Reprevide him moche, & shewid to him much glowmynge cher.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 233 in Poems (1981) 12 Quhat plesans is in feistis delicate, The quhilkis ar geuin with ane glowmand brow?
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. ii With glooman brow the laird seeks in his rent.
1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae iii. 77 There is altogether some excuse if Ballantrae showed something of a glooming disposition.
2. That grows or appears dark.
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > making or becoming dark
glooming1535
darkeninga1560
murkinga1600
eclipsing1635
benighting1649
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Joel ii. 1 A darcke daye, a gloomynge daye, a cloudy daye.
1595 E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. E2v The glooming skies Warnd them to draw their bleating flocks to rest.
1822 ‘B. Cornwall’ Flood of Thessaly i. 191 Towards the glooming shore The tempest sailed direct.
1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion II. iii. iii For a long time they gazed at the glooming landscape, and spake not.
1896 W. D. Howells Impressions & Experiences 203 The glooming reaches and expanses of the corridors.
Derivatives
ˈgloomingly adv. in a glooming fashion.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adverb] > in a gloomy or depressing manner
louringly1576
drearily1579
dernly1590
darkly1597
gloomingly1598
dolesomelya1626
discouraginglya1651
mopishly1651
dismally1653
depressivelya1670
surlily1711
dishearteningly1742
funereally1774
cheerlessly1789
unjoyously1812
ghastily1829
ghastlily1829
desolately1831
unjoyfully1831
depressingly1847
lugubriously1848
dispiritingly1882
uncheerfully1890
drearly1891
greyly1898
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Foltamente..throngingly, pressingly, gloomingly.
1831 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 550 You look too gloomingly at every thing.
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gloomingadj.2
Obsolete exc. dialect. † a. Gleaming, shining. Obsolete.In quot. 1579 perhaps a forced use of glooming adj.1 With quot. 1601 cf. gloaming n. b.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adjective] > gleaming, glimmering, or flickering
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leaming1387
gloringa1400
gleamingc1400
glimpsing1551
shimmering1558
glooming1579
brandishing1581
gleamy1593
glancing1596
glimmering1600
flickering1608
flashing1616
blinking1681
glimmerous1793
skimmeringa1800
aglimmer1828
agleam1854
aglint1871
aglance1880
glinting1883
shimmery1883
glimmery1906
1579 Remedy Lawlesse Loue (Roxb.) C ij b The Cormorant That makes his God of earthly gloming Golde.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A5 His glistring armor made A litle glooming light, much like a shade.
1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. ii. sig. C4 The glooming morne with shining Armes hath chaste The siluer Ensign of the grim checkt night.
b. dialect. (See quot. 1881.)
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1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Glooming, glowing, burning hot.
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