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dimness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness |
| Synonyms: | blackness, dark, duskiness, gloom, murk, murkiness, shade |
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| Concept: | Dimness. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; light in general |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
dimness; darkness; paleness (light color)., half light, demi-jour; partial shadow, partial eclipse; shadow of a shade; glimmer, gliming; nebulosity; cloud; eclipse., aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time; break of day, daybreak, dawn., moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade, moonshine; starlight, owl's light, candlelight, rushlight, firelight; farthing candle.
-verbs
be dim, grow dim; flicker, twinkle, glimmer; loom, lower; fade; pale, pale its ineffectual fire [Hamlet]., render dim; dim, bedim, obscure.
-adjectives
dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark [more]., faint, shadowed forth; glassy; cloudy; misty (opaque); blear; muggy, fuliginous; nebulous, nebular; obnubilated, overcast, crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty; looming, pale (colorless); confused (invisible).
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| Main Entry: | cloud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mass of water particles in air |
| Synonyms: | billow, brume, darkness, dimness, film, fog, fogginess, frost, gloom, haze, haziness, mare's tail, mist, murk, nebula, nebulosity, obscurity, ol' buttermilk sky, overcast, pea soup, pother, puff, rack, scud, sheep, smog, smoke, smother, steam, thunderhead, vapor, veil, woolpack |
| 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: | 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: | haze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cloudy air |
| Synonyms: | brume, cloud, dimness, film, fog, fumes, ground clouds, haziness, indistinctness, miasma, mist, murk, obscurity, smog, smokiness, smother, soup, steam, vapor |
| Notes: | haze is atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility while fog is droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground causing reduced visibility |
| Antonyms: | clarity, clearness |
| Main Entry: | murk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness |
| Synonyms: | dimness, dusk, gloom, murkiness |
| 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 |
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