glooming

adjective

1. depressingly dark

- the gloomy forest

- the glooming interior of an old inn

- `gloomful' is archaic

Similar word(s): dark, gloomful, gloomy, sulky

noun

1. twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming

- When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day. — Trench.The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. — Tennyson.

verb

1. present participle of gloom