dark
Adjective
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tells us about: light, lightness - the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in picturessimilar to:
- acheronian, acherontic, stygian - dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades
- aphotic - lacking light; especially not reached by sunlight
- black, pitch-black, pitch-dark - extremely dark
- caliginous - dark and misty and gloomy
- cimmerian - intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness
- crepuscular - like twilight; dim
- darkened - become or made dark by lack of light
- darkening - becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over
- darkling - (poetic) occurring in the dark or night
- darkling - uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure
- dim, subdued - lacking in light; not bright or harsh
- dusky, twilight, twilit - lighted by or as if by twilight
- gloomful, glooming, gloomy, sulky - depressingly dark
- lightless, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit - without illumination
- semidark - partially devoid of light or brightness
- tenebrific, tenebrious, tenebrous - dark and gloomy
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also: black - being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident lighttells us about: value - relative darkness or lightness of a colorsimilar to: darkish - slightly dark
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similar to: evil - morally bad or wrong
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similar to: concealed - hidden on any grounds for any motive
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similar to: ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
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similar to: unenlightened - not enlightened; ignorantsame as: benighted
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similar to: incomprehensible, uncomprehensible - difficult to understandsame as: obscure
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similar to: inactive - lacking activity; lying idle or unused
Noun
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is a type of: illumination - the degree of visibility of your environmentsubtypes:
- night - darkness
- black, blackness, lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness - total absence of light
- blackout, brownout, dimout - darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)
- semidarkness - partial darkness
same as: darkness -
subtypes: foulness - disgusting wickedness and immoralitysame as: darkness, wickedness
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is a type of: scene - the place where some action occurs
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subtypes:
- weeknight - any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday
- wedding night - the night after the wedding when bride and groom sleep together
has:- evening - the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way
- late-night hour - the latter part of night
- midnight - 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
- small hours - the hours just after midnight
- lights-out - a prescribed bedtime
is a part of: 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours - time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis -
is a type of: unenlightenment - a lack of understandingsame as: darkness
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