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darkness - 16 thesaurus results
Main Entry: darkness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: place, time that is unlit
Synonyms: black, blackness, dark, dusk, eclipse, gloom, murk, nightfall, obscurity, shade, twilight, Cimmerian shade, blackout, brownout, calignosity, cloudiness, crepuscule, dimness, duskiness, lightlessness, murkiness, pitch darkness, shadiness, shadows, smokiness, tenebrosity
Antonyms: brightness, day, daylight, illumination, light, lightness, morning, daytime
Main Entry: darkness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ignorance; mystery
Synonyms: blindness, concealment, isolation, privacy, seclusion, secrecy, denseness, inscrutability, unawareness
Antonyms: cognizance, intelligence, sense, sensibility, understanding, enlightening
Related Words
Main Entry: darkness
Part of Speech: noun
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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
Concept Thesaurus
Synonyms:
-nouns
darkness; blackness (dark color) [more]; obscurity, gloom, murk; dusk (dimness) [more]., Cimmerian darkness, Stygian darkness, Egyptian darkness; night; midnight; dead of night, witching hour of night, witching time of night; blind man's holiday; darkness visible, darkness that can be felt; palpable obscure; Erebus; "the jaws of darkness" [Midsummer Night's Dream]; "sable-vested night" [Milton]., shade, shadow, umbra, penumbra; sciagraphy., obscuration; adumbration, obumbration; obtenebration, offuscation, caligation; extinction; eclipse, total eclipse; gathering of the clouds., shading; distribution of shade; chiaroscuro (light) [more]., noctivagation.
-verbs
be dark, darken, obscure, shade; dim; tone down, lower; overcast, overshadow; eclipse; obfuscate, offuscate; obumbrate, adumbrate; cast into the shade, becloud, bedim, bedarken; cast a shade, throw a shade, spread a shade, cast a shadow, cast a gloom, throw a shadow, spread a shadow, cast gloom, throw gloom, spread gloom., extinguish; put out, blow out, snuff out; doubt.
-adjectives
dark, darksome, darkling; obscure, tenebrious, sombrous, pitch dark, pitchy; caliginous; black (in color) [more]., sunless, lightless (see sun, light, [more]); somber, dusky; unilluminated (see illuminate [more]); nocturnal; dingy, lurid, gloomy; murky, murksome; shady, umbrageous; overcast (dim) [more]; cloudy (opaque) [more]; darkened., dark as pitch, dark as a pit, dark as Erebus., benighted; noctivagant, noctivagous.
-adverbs
in the dark, in the shade.
-phrases
"brief as the lightning in the collied night" [M.N.D.]; "eldest Night and Chaos, ancestors of Nature" [P. L.]; "the blackness of the noonday night" [Longfellow]; "the prayer of Ajax was for light"
Antonyms: light
Main Entry: blindness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sightlessness
Synonyms: darkness, defect, amaurosis, anopsia, astigmatism, cataracts, myopia, presbyopia, purblindness, typhlosis
Antonyms: sight, sightedness
Main Entry: death
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: end of life
Synonyms: afterlife, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains*, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extinction, fatality, finish, grave, grim reaper*, heaven, loss, mortality, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, quietus, release, repose, ruin, silence, sleep, termination, tomb, annihilation, eternal rest, extermination, finis, necrosis, obliteration, passing over, ruination
Antonyms: being, birth, entity, existence, life, living
Main Entry: ignorance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unintelligence, inexperience
Synonyms: bewilderment, blindness, darkness, disregard, fog*, incapacity, innocence, naiveté, oblivion, simplicity, vagueness, benightedness, callowness, crudeness, denseness, dumbness, empty-headedness, half-knowledge, illiteracy, incomprehension, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, nescience, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness
Antonyms: competence, cultivation, education, experience, intelligence, knowledge, literacy, talent, wisdom
Main Entry: mourning
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sadness, time of sadness
Synonyms: bereavement, blackness, crying, darkness, grief, lamenting, languishing, weeping, woe, aching, grieving, keening, lamentation, moaning, pining, repining, sorrowing, wailing
Antonyms: cheer, happiness, joy
Main Entry: night
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: part of day after sundown and before sunrise
Synonyms: bedtime, black*, blackness, dark, darkness, dim, evening, gloom, midnight, nightfall, nighttime, obscurity*, twilight, witching hour*, after dark, after hours, before dawn, dark hours, dead of night, dusk to dawn, duskiness, eventide, nighttide, pitch dark
Antonyms: day
Main Entry: secrecy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: concealment
Synonyms: confidence, dark, darkness, hiding, hush, isolation, mystery, privacy, reticence, seclusion, silence, solitude, stealth, suppression, clandestineness, confidentiality, covertness, furtiveness, retirement, secretiveness, secretness, surreptitiousness
Antonyms: honesty, publicity, revelation, forthrightness, openness
Main Entry: obscurity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: vagueness
Synonyms: ambiguity, darkness, uncertainty, dimness, fuzziness, indistinctness, obscureness
Main Entry: opacity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cloudiness
Synonyms: darkness, obscurity, 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: 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: shade
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dimness
Synonyms: blackness, coolness, cover, darkness, dusk, obscurity, screen, shadow, umbrage, adumbration, gloominess, obscuration, penumbra, semidarkness, shadiness, shadows, umbra
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: oblivion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: nothingness, obscurity
Synonyms: blackness, darkness, eclipse, emptiness, extinction, limbo, nirvana*, nothing, nullity, void, nihility, nonexistence, nowhere, out there
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