Word Meanings - GLOAMING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
2. Sullenness; melancholy. J. Still.
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- DEJECTION
1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides, - DULLNESS
The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope. - SHADOWY
1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon - GLOOMY
1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper - CLOUDINESS
The state of being cloudy. - CLOUDLAND
Dreamland. - CLOUD-BURST
A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once. - SHADOWINESS
The quality or state of being shadowy. - CLOUDBERRY
A species of raspberry growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit. - SHADOWISH
Shadowy; vague. Hooker. - GLOOMILY
In a gloomy manner. - CLOUD-COMPELLER
Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. Pope. - GLOOM
1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight. 2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson . 3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect - GLOAM
The twilight; gloaming. Keats. - CLOUDING
1. A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing. 2. A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals. Knight. - CLOUDLESS
Without a cloud; clear; bright. A cloudless winter sky. Bankroft. -- Cloud"less*ly, adv. -- Cloud"less*ness, n. - CLOUDILY
In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely. Dryden. - CLOUD
arising from the frequent resemblance of clouds to rocks or hillocks 1. A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, susponded in the upper atmosphere. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13. Note: A classification of clouds according - SADNESS
1. Heaviness; firmness. 2. Seriousness; gravity; discretion. Her sadness and her benignity. Chaucer. 3. Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection. Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages. Milton. Syn. - TWILIGHT
1. Seen or done by twilight. Milton. 2. Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure. O'er the twilight groves and dusky caves. Pope. - FORESHADOW
To shadow or typi Dryden. - DISSHADOW
To free from shadow or shade. G. Fletcher. - OVERSHADOW
1. To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7. 2. Fig.: To cover with a superior influence. Milton. - UNCLOUD
To free from clouds; to unvail; to clear from obscurity, gloom, sorrow, or the like. Beau. & Fl. - DISCLOUD
To clear from clouds. Fuller. - INTERCLOUD
To cloud. Daniel. - UNSADNESS
Infirmity; weakness. Wyclif.