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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness |
| Synonyms: | dark, dimness, duskiness, gloom, murkiness, nightfall, total darkness |
| Antonyms: | light, lightness |
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| 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: | mourning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sadness, time of sadness |
| Synonyms: | aching, bereavement, blackness, crying, darkness, grief, grieving, keening, lamentation, lamenting, languishing, moaning, pining, repining, sorrowing, wailing, weeping, woe |
| Antonyms: | cheer, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | night |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | part of day after sundown and before sunrise |
| Synonyms: | after dark, after hours, bedtime, before dawn, black*, blackness, dark, dark hours, darkness, dead of night, dim, dusk to dawn, duskiness, evening, eventide, gloom, midnight, nightfall, nighttide, nighttime, obscurity*, pitch dark, twilight, witching hour |
| Antonyms: | day |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oblivion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nothingness, obscurity |
| Synonyms: | blackness, darkness, eclipse, emptiness, extinction, limbo, nihility, nirvana*, nonexistence, nothing, nowhere, nullity, out there, void |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | dimness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness |
| Synonyms: | blackness, dark, duskiness, gloom, murk, murkiness, shade |
| Main Entry: | duskiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dark |
| Synonyms: | blackness, darkness, dimness, dusk, murkiness, night, sundown, sunset, twilight |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | darkness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
acherontic, aphotic, benighted, black, 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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