| Main Entry: | murk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness |
Synonyms: |
dimness, dusk, gloom, murkiness |
| Main Entry: | cloud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mass of water particles in air |
Synonyms: |
billow, brume, darkness, dimness, film, fog, fogginess, frost, gloom, haze, haziness, mare's tail, mist, murk, nebula, nebulosity, obscurity, ol' buttermilk sky, overcast, pea soup, pother, puff, rack, scud, sheep, smog, smoke, smother, steam, thunderhead, vapor, veil, woolpack |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place, time without light |
Synonyms: |
caliginosity, darkness, dead of night, dimness, dusk, duskiness, evening, gloom, midnight, murk, murkiness, night, nightfall, nighttime, obscurity, opacity, semidarkness, shade, shadows, twilight, witching hour |
Antonyms: |
brightness, day, daylight, daytime, illumination, light, lightness, morning |
| Main Entry: | darken |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become shaded, unlit |
Synonyms: |
becloud, bedim, blacken, cloud over, cloud up, deepen, dim, eclipse, fog, gray, haze, make dim, murk, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, overshadow, shade, shadow, tone down |
Antonyms: |
brighten, illuminate, lighten, whiten |
| 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: | eclipse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | obscure, veil |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, becloud, bedim, blot out, cloud, darken, dim, extinguish, murk, overshadow, shadow, shroud |
Antonyms: |
clear, explain, lay out |
| Main Entry: | fog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heavy mist that reduces visibility |
Synonyms: |
London fog, brume, cloud, effluvium, film, gloom, grease, ground clouds, haze, miasma, murk, murkiness, nebula, obscurity, pea soup, smaze, smog, smoke, smother, soup, steam, vapor, visibility zero-zero, wisp |
| Notes: | haze is atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility while fog is droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground causing reduced visibility |
Antonyms: |
clearness |
| Main Entry: | gloom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness, blackness |
Synonyms: |
bleakness, cloud, cloudiness, dimness, dullness, dusk, duskiness, gloominess, murk, murkiness, obscurity, shade, shadow, twilight |
Antonyms: |
brightness, light, sunniness |
| Main Entry: | haze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cloudy air |
Synonyms: |
brume, cloud, dimness, film, fog, fumes, ground clouds, haziness, indistinctness, miasma, mist, murk, obscurity, smog, smokiness, smother, soup, steam, vapor |
Antonyms: |
clarity, clearness |
| Main Entry: | mist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cloud, steam up |
Synonyms: |
becloud, befog, blur, dim, drizzle, film, fog, haze, mizzle, murk, obscure, overcast, overcloud, rain, shower, sprinkle, steam |
Antonyms: |
burn off, uncloud |