| Main Entry: | blackness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness |
Synonyms: |
dark, dimness, duskiness, gloom, murkiness, nightfall, total darkness |
Antonyms: |
light, lightness |
| Concept: | Blackness. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; specific light |
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-nouns
blackness; darkness (want of light). [more]; swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color; chiaroscuro., nigrification, infuscation., jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow., [Pigments] lampblack, ivory black, blueblack; writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink.
-verbs
be black; render black, blacken, infuscate, denigrate; blot, blotch; smutch; smirch; darken.
-adjectives
black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebon, atramentous, jetty; coal-black, jet-black; fuliginous, pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, Ethiopic; low-toned, low in tone; of the deepest dye., black as jet, black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight; nocturnal (dark); nigrescent; gray; obscure.
-adverbs
in mourning.
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Antonyms: |
whiteness |
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| Main Entry: | darkness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place, time that is unlit |
Synonyms: |
Cimmerian shade, black, blackness, blackout, brownout, calignosity, cloudiness, crepuscule, dark, dimness, dusk, duskiness, eclipse, gloom, lightlessness, murk, murkiness, nightfall, obscurity, pitch darkness, shade, shadiness, shadows, smokiness, tenebrosity, twilight |
Antonyms: |
brightness, day, daylight, daytime, illumination, light, lightness, morning |
| Main Entry: | mourning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sadness, time of sadness |
Synonyms: |
aching, bereavement, blackness, crying, darkness, grief, grieving, keening, lamentation, lamenting, languishing, moaning, pining, repining, sorrowing, wailing, weeping, woe |
Antonyms: |
cheer, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | night |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | part of day after sundown and before sunrise |
Synonyms: |
after dark, after hours, bedtime, before dawn, black*, blackness, dark, dark hours, darkness, dead of night, dim, dusk to dawn, duskiness, evening, eventide, gloom, midnight, nightfall, nighttide, nighttime, obscurity*, pitch dark, twilight, witching hour |
Antonyms: |
day |
| Main Entry: | oblivion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nothingness, obscurity |
Synonyms: |
blackness, darkness, eclipse, emptiness, extinction, limbo, nihility, nirvana*, nonexistence, nothing, nowhere, nullity, out there, void |
| Main Entry: | shade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dimness |
Synonyms: |
adumbration, blackness, coolness, cover, darkness, dusk, gloominess, obscuration, obscurity, penumbra, screen, semidarkness, shadiness, shadow, shadows, umbra, umbrage |
| Notes: | color refers to the wavelength composition of light, shade is a gradation of color referring to its degree of darkness, tint is a gradation referring to its degree of lightness, and hue indicates a modification of a basic color hue is the quality of a color that makes it possible to call it bluish green, etc. (the color of a color); shade is a color variation having to do with the value of a hue (lightness or darkness), and tint is a pale variation of a color |
Antonyms: |
brightness, light |
| Main Entry: | dimness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness |
Synonyms: |
blackness, dark, duskiness, gloom, murk, murkiness, shade |
| Main Entry: | duskiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dark |
Synonyms: |
blackness, darkness, dimness, dusk, murkiness, night, sundown, sunset, twilight |
| Main Entry: | darkness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
black, acherontic, aphotic, benighted, blae, caliginous, cimmerian, cloudy, cockshut, crepuscular, dark, dark as Erebus, dark as a pit, dark as pitch, darkened, darkling, darksome, dingy, dusky, gloomy, lightless, lurid, melanic, murksome, murky, noctivigant, noctivigous, nocturnal, obscure, overcast, phaeochrous, pitch, shady, sombre, sombrous, subfusc, sunless, swarthy, tenebrious, tenebrous, thestral, unbrageous, unilluminated
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