gloaming | Definition of gloaming

Synonyms and Antonyms of gloaming

1 a time or place of little or no light

lovers would often retreat to the gloaming of the park's many secluded recesses to steal a kiss

Synonyms of gloaming

black, blackness, candlelight, dark, darkness, dusk, gloom, murk, night, semidarkness, shade, shadows, twilight, umbra

Words Related to gloaming

blackout, brownout, dimout

shadiness, umbrage

dullness (also dulness), somberness

cloudiness, fogginess, haziness, mistiness, murkiness

dimness, faintness, gloominess, grayness, paleness

Near Antonyms of gloaming

moonlight, starlight, sunlight

effulgence, radiance, radiancy, shine, sunshine

incandescence, luminance, luminescence, luminosity, luminousness

Antonyms of gloaming

blaze, brightness, brilliance, day, daylight, glare, glow, light, lightness

2 the time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness

with the gloaming came the familiar call of the whip-poor-will

Synonyms of gloaming

crepuscule (or crepuscle), dusk, eve, evenfall, evening, eventide, night, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight

Words Related to gloaming

dark, darkness, nighttime

Near Antonyms of gloaming

day, daytime, light

Antonyms of gloaming

aurora, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, daylight, morn, morning, sunrise, sunup