Definition for Gloaming:

• [ Akin to gloom. ] Twilight, dusk.

Synonyms for Gloaming:

• n.

  •
  • curfew.
  •
  • even,
  • start.
  •dusk (noun)
  • night.
  •evenfall (noun)
  • evenfall.
  •evening (noun)
  • dark,
  • decline,
  • dim,
  • sundown,
  • duskiness,
  • close,
  • nightfall,
  • black.
  •fall (noun)
  • fall.
  •sunset (noun)
  • close day,
  • crepusular lights.
  •twilight (noun)
  • halflights,
  • afterlights,
  • after light,
  • after-lights,
  • half-lights,
  • half lights,
  • late-afternoons,
  • de cline,
  • after glows,
  • lateafternoons,
  • late afternoons,
  • half light,
  • early evenings,
  • after-glows,
  • After-glow,
  • de-clines,
  • de-cline,
  • halflight,
  • last phases,
  • lateafternoon,
  • crepuscular lights,
  • de clines,
  • after lights,
  • after-light.
  •vesper (noun)
  • early blacks.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • drivetime,
  • the witching hour,
  • vesper,
  • the small hours,
  • dinnertime,
  • prime time,
  • watershed,
  • suppertime,
  • teatime,
  • closing time,
  • dinner table,
  • graveyard shift,
  • rush hour,
  • wee hours.
  •
  • evening,
  • eve,
  • midnight.

Antonyms for Gloaming:

• n.

  • evening
    daybreak, sunrise.
  • Other antonyms:
    morning, sunup, luminance, morn, shine, light, effulgence, moonlight, luminescence, sunlight, brilliance, lightness, radiancy, incandescence, glow, dawning, day, glare, luminosity, forenoon, daylight, sunshine, luminousness, cockcrow, daytime, dawn, blaze, aurora, brightness, starlight, radiance.

Gloaming Sentence Examples:

• Suddenly the hills exchanged their warm colours for a cold gray, in harmony with the gloaming or evening twilight.

• Year after year, Thornton Fairchild had sat in the big armchair by the windows, watching the days grow old and fade into night, studying sunset after sunset, voicing the vain hope that the gloaming might bring the twilight of his own existence, - a silent man except for this, rarely speaking of the past, never giving to the son who worked for him, cared for him, worshiped him, the slightest inkling of what might have happened in the dim days of the long ago to transform him into a beaten thing, longing for the final surcease.