gloam

Plural: gloams

Noun

• Twilight or dusk; the period of fading light in the evening.
• the time of day immediately following sunset
• Clipping of gloaming (“twilight”).

Verb

• To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.
• To be sullen or morose.

Examples

• As the gloam settled, the Scrabble board became harder to decipher, but the challenge remained.

Synonyms

crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloaming, nightfall, twilight