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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | 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: | jet |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | black |
| Synonyms: | atramentous, bituminous, coal-black, dark, ebon, ebony, inky, midnight, obsidian, pitch-black, pitch-dark, raven, sable |
| Antonyms: | white |
| Main Entry: | sable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very dark in color |
| Synonyms: | black, dark, dusky, dusty, ebon, ebony, gloomy, inky, jet, jetty, murky, pitch-black, pitch-dark, raven, somber |
| Main Entry: | onyx |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | black |
| Synonyms: | atramentous, brunet, charcoal, clouded, coal, dingy, dusky, ebon, ebony, inklike, inky, jet, jetty, livid, melanoid, murky, obsidian, piceous, pitch, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, raven, sable, shadowy, slate, sloe, somber, sombre, sooty, starless, stygian, swart, swarthy |
| Main Entry: | pitch-black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | black |
| Synonyms: | atramentous, brunet, charcoal, clouded, coal, dingy, dusky, ebon, ebony, inklike, inky, jet, jetty, livid, melanoid, murky, obsidian, onyx, piceous, pitch, pitch-dark, pitch-dark pitchy, raven, sable, shadowy, slate, sloe, somber, sombre, sooty, starless, stygian, swart, swarthy |
| Main Entry: | pitchy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | black |
| Synonyms: | atramentous, brunet, charcoal, clouded, coal, dingy, dusky, ebon, ebony, inklike, inky, jet, jetty, livid, melanoid, murky, obsidian, onyx, piceous, pitch, pitch-black, pitch-dark, raven, sable, shadowy, slate, sloe, somber, sombre, sooty, starless, stygian, swart, swarthy |
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| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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atramental, atramentous, black, black as November, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as jet, black as midnight, black as my hat, black as thunder, brunette, coal, dingy, dusky, ebon, ebony, ethiopic, fuliginous, gray, inky, jet, murky, nigrescent, nocturnal, obscure, of the deepest dye, perse, pitchy, raven, sable, scoriac, somber, soot, sooty, suggilated, swart, swarthy, zibeline
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