1. twilight or dusk; the time when darkness begins to fall
Usage: poetic; literary

1. present participle of gloom; becoming dark or shadowy
Usage: literary

Examples

• The glooming of evening settled over the countryside.
• In the glooming light, the old castle looked mysterious.
• The sky was glooming as storm clouds gathered overhead.
• She walked through the glooming forest path.
• The glooming hour brought a sense of melancholy.
• Birds returned to their nests in the glooming twilight.