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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early evening |
| Synonyms: | dark, dimday, dimmet, eventide, gloaming, gloom, night, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight |
| Antonyms: | dawn |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place, time without light |
| Synonyms: | caliginosity, darkness, dead of night, dimness, dusk, duskiness, evening, gloom, midnight, murk, murkiness, night, nightfall, nighttime, obscurity, opacity, semidarkness, shade, shadows, twilight, witching hour |
| Antonyms: | brightness, day, daylight, daytime, illumination, light, lightness, morning |
| Main Entry: | darkness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place, time that is unlit |
| Synonyms: | Cimmerian shade, black, blackness, blackout, brownout, calignosity, cloudiness, crepuscule, dark, dimness, dusk, duskiness, eclipse, gloom, lightlessness, murk, murkiness, nightfall, obscurity, pitch darkness, shade, shadiness, shadows, smokiness, tenebrosity, twilight |
| Antonyms: | brightness, day, daylight, daytime, illumination, light, lightness, morning |
| Main Entry: | dim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | darkish |
| Synonyms: | blah, bleary, blurred, caliginous, cloudy, dark, dingy, dreary, dull, dusk, dusky, faded, faint, flat, fuzzy, gloomy, gray, ill-defined, indistinct, lackluster, lightless, mat, monotone, monotonous, murky, muted, obscured, opaque, overcast, pale, poorly lit, shadowy, sullied, tarnished, tenebrous, unclear, unilluminated, vague, weak |
| Antonyms: | bright, brilliant, clear, distinct, light |
| Main Entry: | evening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | latter part of a day |
| Synonyms: | black, close, dark, decline, dim, dusk, duskiness, early black, eve, even, eventide, late afternoon, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight |
| Antonyms: | morning |
| Main Entry: | gloom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness, blackness |
| Synonyms: | bleakness, cloud, cloudiness, dimness, dullness, dusk, duskiness, gloominess, murk, murkiness, obscurity, shade, shadow, twilight |
| Antonyms: | brightness, light, sunniness |
| Main Entry: | murk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness |
| Synonyms: | dimness, dusk, gloom, murkiness |
| Main Entry: | murky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, obscure |
| Synonyms: | black, caliginous, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkened, dim, dingy, dirty, dismal, drab, dreary, dull, dun, dusk, dusky, filthy, foggy, foul, fuzzy, glowering, gray, grubby, impenetrable, lowering, misty, mucky, muddy, nasty, nebulous, nubilous, overcast, roily, sad, smoky, somber, squalid, stormy, tenebrous, turbid, unclean |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, light, luminous, sparkling, unobscured |
| Main Entry: | nightfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning of darkness |
| Synonyms: | black*, crepuscule, dim, dusk, eve, eventide, sundown, sunset, twilight, vespers |
| Antonyms: | daybreak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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