| Main Entry: | concealment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hiding, secrecy |
Synonyms: |
beard, blind, camouflage, cover, cover-up, covering, curtain, disguise, dissimulation, fig leaf, front, hide-out, hideaway, laundromat, mask, obliteration, obscuration, occultation, privacy, red herring, secretion, smoke screen, veil, wraps |
Antonyms: |
disclosure, divulgence, exposition, revelation, showing, telling |
| Main Entry: | eclipse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shadowing of the sun |
Synonyms: |
concealment, darkening, decline, diminution, dimming, extinction, extinguishment, obliteration, obscuration, occultation, penumbra, shading, shroud, veil |
| Main Entry: | film |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coating, tissue; mist |
Synonyms: |
blur, brume, cloud, coat, covering, dusting, fabric, foil, fold, gauze, haze, haziness, integument, layer, leaf, membrane, mistiness, nebula, obscuration, opacity, partition, pellicle, scum*, sheet, skin, transparency, veil, web |
| 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: | shadow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness |
Synonyms: |
adumbration, cover, dark, dimness, dusk, gloom, obscuration, obscurity, penumbra, protection, shade, shelter, umbra, umbrage |
Antonyms: |
brightness, light |
| Main Entry: | mumbo jumbo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
Synonyms: |
claptrap, double-talk, empty talk, gibberish, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, hogwash, mere words, obscuration |
| Concept: | Shade. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; light in general |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
shade; awning (cover); parasol, sunshade, umbrella; chick; portiere; screen, curtain, shutter, blind, gauze, veil, mantle, mask; cloud, mist, gathering. of clouds., umbrage, glade; shadow.
-verbs
draw a curtain; put up a shutter, close a shutter; veil; cast a shadow (darken).
-adjectives
shady, umbrageous.
-phrases
"welcome ye shades! ye bowery thickets hail" [Thomson]
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Antonyms: |
luminary |
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