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| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lack of light |
| Synonyms: | black, cloudy, dim, dingy, drab, dull, dusk, dusky, faint, foggy, gloomy, grimy, indistinct, inky, lurid, misty, murky, nebulous, obscure, opaque, overcast, shadowy, shady, somber, sooty, sunless, tenebrous, vague, Cimmerian, aphotic, atramentous, blackish, caliginous, clouded, crepuscular, darkened, dun, ill-lighted, lightless, obfuscous, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, shaded, stygian, unlighted, unlit |
| Antonyms: | bright, brilliant, illuminated, light, lucid, luminous, radiant, shining, visible, vivid |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place, time without light |
| Synonyms: | darkness, dusk, evening, gloom, midnight, murk, night, nightfall, nighttime, obscurity, opacity, shade, twilight, witching hour, caliginosity, dead of night, dimness, duskiness, murkiness, semidarkness, shadows |
| Antonyms: | brightness, day, daylight, illumination, light, lightness, morning, daytime |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shaded complexion, hair |
| Synonyms: | black, brunette, dusky, ebony, sable, swarthy, tan, adumbral, bistered, brunet, dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, ebon, swart |
| Antonyms: | light |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance; mystery |
| Synonyms: | concealment, seclusion, secrecy, thickness, denseness, inscrutability |
| Antonyms: | cognizance, intelligence, sense, sensibility, understanding, enlightening |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hidden, secret |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, anagogic, arcane, cabalistic, complicated, concealed, cryptic, deep, enigmatic, esoteric, intricate, knotty, mysterious, mystic, mystical, obscure, occult, puzzling, recondite, Delphian, mystifying, not known |
| Antonyms: | apparent, distinct, evident, manifest, plain, visible |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grim, hopeless |
| Synonyms: | bleak, cheerless, dismal, doleful, drab, foreboding, gloomy, joyless, morbid, morose, mournful, ominous, sinister, somber, unpropitious |
| Antonyms: | bright, brilliant, encouraging, hopeful, shining |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil, satanic |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, bad, corrupt, damnable, foul, hellish, horrible, immoral, infamous, infernal, nefarious, sinful, sinister, vile, wicked |
| Antonyms: | good, moral |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ignorant |
| Synonyms: | uncultivated, unenlightened, benighted, unlettered, unread |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry, upset |
| Synonyms: | dour, forbidding, frowning, glum, ominous, sulky, sullen, threatening, glowering, scowling |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, pleased |
| Main Entry: | cheerless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressing, unhappy |
| Synonyms: | austere, black, bleak, blue, dark, dejected, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dolorous, drab, dreary, dull, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, grim, jarring, joyless, melancholy, miserable, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, sorrowful, sullen, uncomfortable, wintry, woebegone, woeful, comfortless, dejecting, dispiriting, draggy, drearisome, in the dumps, mopey, tenebrific |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, uplifting |
| Main Entry: | cloudy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazy; darkened |
| Synonyms: | confused, dark, dense, dim, dismal, dull, dusky, foggy, gloomy, heavy, indefinite, indistinct, leaden, lowering, misty, muddy, murky, mushy, nebulous, obscure, opaque, overcast, somber, sullen, sunless, vaporous, blurred, emulsified, mucky, nontranslucent, nontransparent, not clear, nubilous |
| Notes: | to the National Weather Service, partly cloudy (what we think of as partly sunny) is 3/8-5/8 cloud cover, mostly cloudy is 6/8-7/8 cloud cover, and cloudy is 8/8 |
| Antonyms: | clear, cloudless |
| Main Entry: | cryptic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret; obscure in meaning |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, ambiguous, apocryphal, arcane, cabalistic, dark, enigmatic, equivocal, esoteric, evasive, hidden, incomprehensible, inexplicable, murky, mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, opaque, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secretive, strange, tenebrous, unclear, unfathomable, vague, veiled, Delphian, Delphic, mystifying, uninformative |
| Antonyms: | clear, obvious, plain, straightforward, seen |
| Main Entry: | dingy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | soiled, tacky |
| Synonyms: | broken-down, colorless, dark, dilapidated, dim, dirty, drab, dreary, dull, dusky, faded, gloomy, grimy, muddy, murky, obscure, run-down, seedy, shabby, somber, threadbare, tired, bedimmed, darkish, discolored, smirched, sullied, tarnished |
| Antonyms: | bright, clean, immaculate, neat, pure, spotless |
| Main Entry: | disconsolate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, unhappy |
| Synonyms: | bad, black, blue, cheerless, cold, crestfallen, dark, dejected, desolate, despairing, destroyed, dispirited, distressed, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, dreary, forlorn, gloomy, grief-stricken, heartbroken, hopeless, inconsolable, low, melancholy, miserable, sad, somber, sorrowful, woebegone, woeful, wretched, comfortless, crushed, hurting, in pain, in the pits, ripped, torn-up |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, consoled, solaced, soothed |
| Main Entry: | dismal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleak, dreary, gloomy |
| Synonyms: | black, boring, cheerless, cloudy, dark, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dim, dingy, disagreeable, discouraging, doleful, dolorous, dull, forlorn, frowning, funereal, ghastly, gruesome, hopeless, horrible, inauspicious, joyless, lonesome, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, monotonous, morbid, murky, oppressive, overcast, sad, shadowy, somber, sorrowful, tedious, tenebrous, troublesome, unfortunate, unhappy, afflictive, disheartening, dispiriting, horrid, in the pits |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, glad, happy, hopeful, light, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | dodge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | avoid |
| Synonyms: | dark, deceive, ditch, duck, elude, equivocate, escape, evade, fence, fend off, fudge*, hedge, lurch, malinger, parry, pussyfoot*, shake, shake off*, shift, shirk, shuffle, sidestep, skirt, slide, slip, swerve, tergiversate, trick, weasel*, circumlocute, get around, get out of, give the slip, juke, move to the side, put the move on, short-circuit, skip out on, tergiverse, turn aside |
| Antonyms: | confront, encounter, face, meet, stand up to |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dusk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early evening |
| Synonyms: | dark, gloom, night, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight, dimday, dimmet, eventide, gloaming |
| Antonyms: | dawn |
| Main Entry: | dusky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark-hued; murky |
| Synonyms: | bleak, brunette, cheerless, cloudy, dark, desolate, dim, dismal, dull, funereal, gloomy, joyless, obscure, overcast, sable, shadowy, shady, swarthy, tenebrous, twilight, veiled, adusk, bistered, caliginous, crepuscular, dark-complexioned, darkish, lightless, swart, twilit, unilluminated |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, light |
| Main Entry: | enigmatic/enigmatical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mysterious |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, cryptic, dark, doubtful, equivocal, incomprehensible, indecipherable, inexplicable, inscrutable, obscure, occult, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secret, teasing, uncertain, unfathomable, unintelligible, Delphian, Sibylline, sphinxlike, stickling, stumping |
| Antonyms: | clear, obvious, unmysterious |
| Main Entry: | evening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | latter part of a day |
| Synonyms: | black, close, dark, decline, dim, dusk, eve, even, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight, duskiness, early black, eventide, late afternoon |
| Antonyms: | morning |
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