| Main Entry: | shade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shut out the light |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, be overcast, blacken, cast a shadow, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, conceal, cover, darken, deepen, dim, eclipse, gray, hide, inumbrate, mute, obscure, overshadow, protect, screen, shadow, shelter, shield, shutter, tone down, umbrage, veil |
| 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: |
open |
| Main Entry: | shaded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shady |
Synonyms: |
adumbral, bosky, cloudy, cool*, dim, dusky, indistinct, leafy, out of the sun, screened, shadowed, shadowy, sheltered, umbrageous, umbrous, under a cloud, vague |
| Concept: | Shade. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; light in general |
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-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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luminary |
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| Main Entry: | blacken |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | darken |
Synonyms: |
befoul, begrime, blot, cloud, deepen, ebonize, grow dark, grow dim, ink, make dark, shade, smudge, soil |
Antonyms: |
bleach, lighten, whiten |
| Main Entry: | black out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lose consciousness |
Synonyms: |
batten, conceal, cover up, cross out, cut off, darken, delete; cover, eclipse, eradicate, erase, extinguish, faint, go out like a light, hold back, keel over, make dark, obfuscate, pass out, quash, rub out, shade, smother, squash, squelch, stifle, suppress, swoon, zonk out |
Antonyms: |
add, pencil in, uncover |
| Main Entry: | blur |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cloud, fog |
Synonyms: |
becloud, bedim, befog, blear, blind, darken, daze, dazzle, dim, glare, make hazy, make indistinct, make vague, mask, muddy, obscure, shade, soften |
Antonyms: |
clear, uncloud, unsmudge |
| Main Entry: | cloud |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become foggy or obscured |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, becloud, befog, blur, darken, dim, eclipse, envelop, fog, gloom, mist, obfuscate, overcast, overshadow, shade, shadow, veil |
Antonyms: |
clear, unfog, unveil |
| Main Entry: | colored |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not white |
Synonyms: |
dyed, flushed, glowing, hued, shaded, stained, tinged, tinted, washed |
Antonyms: |
white |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wrap, hide |
Synonyms: |
blanket, board up, bury, bush up, cache, camouflage, canopy, cap, carpet, cloak, clothe, coat, conceal, cover up, crown, curtain, daub, disguise, do on the sly, dress, eclipse, encase, enclose, enfold, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, hood, house, invest, layer, mantle, mask, obscure, overcast, overlay, overspread, protect, put on, screen, secrete, set on, shade, shield, shroud, stash, superimpose, superpose, surface, veil |
Antonyms: |
lay bare, lay out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lack of light |
Synonyms: |
Cimmerian, aphotic, atramentous, black, blackish, caliginous, clouded, cloudy, crepuscular, darkened, dim, dingy, drab, dull, dun, dusk, dusky, faint, foggy, gloomy, grimy, ill-lighted, indistinct, inky, lightless, lurid, misty, murky, nebulous, obfuscous, obscure, opaque, overcast, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, shaded, shadowy, shady, somber, sooty, stygian, sunless, tenebrous, unlighted, unlit, vague |
Antonyms: |
bright, brilliant, illuminated, light, lucid, luminous, radiant, shining, visible, vivid |