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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | dim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not very intelligent |
| Synonyms: | boorish, dense, dim-witted, doltish, dull, dumb, oafish, obtuse, slow, slow on uptake, stupid, thick*, weak-minded |
| Antonyms: | bright, intelligent, smart |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blah |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, lifeless |
| Synonyms: | banausic, bland, boring, dim, dreary, humdrum, monotone, monotonous, pedestrian, plodding, yawn producing |
| Antonyms: | exciting, full of life, spirited |
| Main Entry: | blind |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hidden or covered |
| Synonyms: | blocked, closed, closed at one end, concealed, dark, dead-end, dim, disguised, impassable, leading nowhere, obscured, obstructed, secluded, unmarked, without egress, without exit |
| Antonyms: | open, revealed, uncovered |
| Main Entry: | cloudy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazy; darkened |
| Synonyms: | blurred, confused, dark, dense, dim, dismal, dull, dusky, emulsified, foggy, gloomy, heavy, indefinite, indistinct, leaden, lowering, misty, mucky, muddy, murky, mushy, nebulous, nontranslucent, nontransparent, not clear, nubilous, obscure, opaque, overcast, somber, sullen, sunless, vaporous |
| Notes: | to the National Weather Service, partly cloudy (what we think of as partly sunny) is 3/8-5/8 cloud cover, mostly cloudy is 6/8-7/8 cloud cover, and cloudy is 8/8 |
| Antonyms: | clear, cloudless |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | dingy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | soiled, tacky |
| Synonyms: | bedimmed, broken-down, colorless, dark, darkish, dilapidated, dim, dirty, discolored, drab, dreary, dull, dusky, faded, gloomy, grimy, muddy, murky, obscure, run-down, seedy, shabby, smirched, somber, sullied, tarnished, threadbare, tired |
| Antonyms: | bright, clean, immaculate, neat, pure, spotless |
| Main Entry: | dismal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleak, dreary, gloomy |
| Synonyms: | afflictive, black, boring, cheerless, cloudy, dark, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dim, dingy, disagreeable, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, doleful, dolorous, dull, forlorn, frowning, funereal, ghastly, gruesome, hopeless, horrible, horrid, in the pits, inauspicious, joyless, lonesome, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, monotonous, morbid, murky, oppressive, overcast, sad, shadowy, somber, sorrowful, tedious, tenebrous, troublesome, unfortunate, unhappy |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, glad, happy, hopeful, light, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | dull |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unintelligent |
| Synonyms: | addled, backward, besotted, boring, brainless, daffy, daft, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dumb, feeble-minded, half-baked, ignorant, imbecilic, indolent, insensate, low, moronic, not bright, numskulled, obtuse, scatterbrained, shallow, simple, simple-minded, slow, sluggish, stolid, stupid, tedious, thick, unintellectual, vacuous, wearisome, witless |
| Antonyms: | intelligent, keen, sharp, smart, witty |
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