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| 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 |
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| 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
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-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"
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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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