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synonyms for gloaming

  • dusk
  • twilight
  • close
  • dark
  • decline
  • duskiness
  • eve
  • evening
  • eventide
  • nightfall
  • sundown
  • sunset
  • twilight
  • dim
  • early black
  • late afternoon
On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gloaming, such as: dusk, twilight, close, dark, decline, and duskiness.

antonyms for gloaming

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  • daybreak
  • sunrise
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How to use gloaming in a sentence

The camera turns to follow them as, joined by the ad hoc choir on the porch, they cross a vast meadow in the gloaming, singing lustily all the while.
REVISITING ‘THE VISITORS’: AN ORAL HISTORY OF RAGNAR KJARTANSSON’S MULTIMEDIA MASTERPIECESEBASTIAN SMEE, GABRIEL FLORIT, JOANNE LEEJULY 23, 2021WASHINGTON POST
On muddy embankments in gloaming forest, you might feel your knees wobble as adolescent gorillas inch to within a foot of where you stand to paw your neighbor’s tripod.
IN EAST AFRICA, MOUNTAIN GORILLAS AND A NEW PARADIGM FOR WILDLIFE TRAVELHENRY WISMAYERAPRIL 23, 2021WASHINGTON POST
She tried to peer through the gloaming, and feared her father and mother would mark her troubled eagerness and guess its cause.
A FOREST HEARTH: A ROMANCE OF INDIANA IN THE THIRTIESCHARLES MAJOR
And so they had still a peaceful gloaming, these two old people, when their changeful day of life was drawing to a close.
DAVID FLEMING'S FORGIVENESSMARGARET MURRAY ROBERTSON
Only it was like the dawn rather than the gloaming, Katie said, because of the soft brightness that shone on them both.
DAVID FLEMING'S FORGIVENESSMARGARET MURRAY ROBERTSON
The figure of a man, who in the gray gloaming looked well-dressed, was approaching Mysie, and she was slowly moving to meet him.
THE UNDERWORLDJAMES C. WELSH
In the gray quick gloaming the moors and the hills, viewed from the train, seemed to him a country without hope.
THE UNDERWORLDJAMES C. WELSH
Then a faint gloaming shone where the trees arched and opened: they were again beneath a clear sky.
GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS
When the servant went in to remove the tea things and light the candles, both men were sitting silent in the gloaming.
MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE, VOL. 1, NO. 2, JULY, 1893VARIOUS
He recalled the defiance which he had launched at it as he had stood before it in the November gloaming.
ROBERT ANNYS: POOR PRIESTANNIE NATHAN MEYER
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO GLOAMING

  • dark
  • dimday
  • dimmet
  • eventide
  • gloaming
  • gloom
  • night
  • nightfall
  • sundown
  • sunset
  • twilight
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.