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gloaming

noun

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

midnight

blackout, brownout, dimout

shadiness, umbrage

dullness (also dulness), somberness

cloudiness, fogginess, haziness, mistiness, murkiness

dimness, faintness, gloominess, grayness, paleness

half-light
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

forenoon
Antonyms of gloaming

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

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