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Definition: Glooming |
GloomingAdjective1. Depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glooming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
Synonyms: GloomingSynonyms: gloomful (adj), gloomy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Glooming |
| English words defined with "glooming": gloomful, gloomy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "glooming": Diary. (references) |
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Screenplays | A glooming peace this morning with it brings (Romeo + Juliet; writing credit: Craig Pearce) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing. Hearst kept a diary wherein were writ All that he had of wisdom and of wit. So the Recording Angel, when Hearst died, Erased all entries of his own and cried: "I'll judge you by your diary." Said Hearst: "Thank you; 'twill show you I am Saint the First" -- Straightway producing, jubilant and proud, That record from a pocket in his shroud. The Angel slowly turned the pages o'er, Each stupid line of which he knew before, Glooming and gleaming as by turns he hit On Shallow sentiment and stolen wit; Then gravely closed the book and gave it back. "My friend, you've wandered from your proper track: You'd never be content this side the tomb -- For big ideas Heaven has little room, And Hell's no latitude for making mirth," He said, and kicked the fellow back to earth. "The Mad Philosopher" |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Words beginning with "glooming": gloomings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "glooming": beglooming. (additional references) | |
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"Glooming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Giocomini, gloming, glooping, glowming, gouming. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-i-l-m-n-o-o" | |
-1 letter: looming. | |
-2 letters: gigolo, logion, looing, mongol, mooing, ogling. | |
-3 letters: gloom, going, igloo, lingo, logoi, mongo, nomoi. | |
-4 letters: glim, glom, gogo, gong, goon, limn, limo, ling, lino, lion, logo, loin, long, loom, loon, migg, milo, moil, mono, mool, moon, nogg, noil, nolo, olio. | |
-5 letters: gig, gin, goo, ion, lin, log, loo, mig, mil, mog, mol, mon. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-i-l-m-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: gloomings. | |
+2 letters: beglooming. | |
+4 letters: homologating, homologizing, moonlighting. | |
+5 letters: agglomeration, cholangiogram, etymologising, etymologizing, mythologizing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 6C 6F 6F 6D 69 6E 67 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-.. --- --- -- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01101100 01101111 01101111 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G l o o m i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 006C 006F 006F 006D 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4178818179758073 |
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