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🌅 The sun going down 🌅 Evening colors
sunsetting

sunsetting

4.2
Having the warm red or orange light you see when the sun goes down
  • adjective
  • /ˈsʌnˌsɛtɪŋ/
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  • We enjoyed a picnic under the sunsetting sky, watching the colors change.

Examples

  • The sunsetting light made the city skyline look especially beautiful that evening.

  • The artist captured the sunsetting glow on the mountains in her painting.

  • Look at that sunsetting horizon!

  • The sunsetting sky looked like a painting.

  • The artist captured the sunsetting glow on the mountains in her painting.

  • We enjoyed a picnic under the sunsetting sky, watching the colors change.

  • The sunsetting light made the city skyline look especially beautiful that evening.

How Colorful

fiery
44 3.6
vivid
23 3.0
sunsetting
4.2
tinted
16 3.2
pale
291 1.0

Surface Forms

sunsetting positive

Morphology

sunsetting = sunset (transparent) = sun + set + ing

This is a regular -ing form built from the verb 'sunset', so the meaning is straightforwardly related to the sun going down.

Etymology

Sunsetting comes from sun + setting, where setting means 'going down' and it is the same idea as sunset. So, sunsetting describes the warm colors and light you see when the sun goes down.