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gloomings

gloomings is the plural of glooming.

Meaning of glooming

Noun

glooming (plural gloomings)

  1. Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.
    • When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, To my God-Child, on the Day of his Baptism
    Synonyms:
    crepuscule
  2. Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.
    • What devil, woman! pluck up your heart, and leave off all this glooming.c. 1553, anonymous author, Gammer Gurton's Needle, London: Gibbings & Co. for the Early English Drama Society, published 1906, act 3, scene 3, page 35
    Synonyms:
    misery, sadness, sorrow, woe

Questions about gloomings

What is gloomings the plural of?
Gloomings is the plural of glooming.

Words near gloomings in the dictionary

  1. gloomily
  2. gloominess
  3. gloominesses
  4. glooming
  5. gloomingly
  6. gloomings
  7. gloomish
  8. gloomleader
  9. gloomleaders
  10. gloomless
  11. glooms

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