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🌅 Evening colors 🌅 The sun going down
sunsetting

sunsetting

1 4.2
Having the warm red or orange light you see when the sun goes down
  • adjective
  • /ˈsʌnˌsɛtɪŋ/
: al atardecer
  • 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
68 3.6
vivid
42 3.0
sunsetting
1 4.2
tinted
33 3.2
pale
301 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.