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| n. (state) | 1. dark, darkness | absence of light or illumination. |
| ~ illumination | the degree of visibility of your environment. |
| ~ night | darkness.; "it vanished into the night" |
| ~ lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness, black, blackness | total absence of light.; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" |
| ~ brownout, dimout, blackout | darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft). |
| ~ semidarkness | partial darkness. |
| n. (state) | 2. dark, darkness, iniquity, wickedness | absence of moral or spiritual values.; "the powers of darkness" |
| ~ condition, status | a state at a particular time.; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" |
| ~ foulness | disgusting wickedness and immorality.; "he understood the foulness of sin"; "his display of foulness deserved severe punishment"; "mouths which speak such foulness must be cleansed" |
| n. (location) | 3. dark, darkness, shadow | an unilluminated area.; "he moved off into the darkness" |
| ~ scene | the place where some action occurs.; "the police returned to the scene of the crime" |
| n. (time) | 4. dark, night, nighttime | the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside. |
| ~ period, period of time, time period | an amount of time.; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" |
| ~ 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.; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day" |
| ~ weeknight | any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday. |
| ~ evening | the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way.; "an evening at the opera" |
| ~ late-night hour | the latter part of night. |
| ~ midnight | 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night.; "young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight" |
| ~ small hours | the hours just after midnight. |
| ~ lights-out | a prescribed bedtime. |
| ~ wedding night | the night after the wedding when bride and groom sleep together. |
| n. (cognition) | 5. dark, darkness | an unenlightened state.; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness" |
| ~ unenlightenment | a lack of understanding. |
| adj. | 6. dark | devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black.; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat" |
| ~ acheronian, acherontic, stygian | dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades.; "in the depths of an Acheronian forest"; "upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue" |
| ~ aphotic | lacking light; especially not reached by sunlight.; "the aphotic depths of the sea where no photosynthesis occurs" |
| ~ pitch-black, pitch-dark, black | extremely dark.; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" |
| ~ caliginous | dark and misty and gloomy. |
| ~ cimmerian | intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness.; "the Cimmerian gloom...a darkness that could be felt" |
| ~ crepuscular | like twilight; dim.; "the evening's crepuscular charm" |
| ~ darkened | become or made dark by lack of light.; "a darkened house"; "the darkened theater" |
| ~ darkening | becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over.; "the darkening sky" |
| ~ darkling | (poetic) occurring in the dark or night.; "a darkling journey" |
| ~ darkling | uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure.; "a darkling glance"; "secret operatives and darkling conspiracies" |
| ~ dim, subdued | lacking in light; not bright or harsh.; "a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music" |
| ~ dusky, twilight, twilit | lighted by or as if by twilight.; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river" |
| ~ gloomful, glooming, gloomy, sulky | depressingly dark.; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" |
| ~ unilluminated, lightless, unlighted, unlit | without illumination.; "came up the lightless stairs"; "the unilluminated side of Mars"; "through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets" |
| ~ semidark | partially devoid of light or brightness.; "semidark room" |
| ~ tenebrific, tenebrious, tenebrous | dark and gloomy.; "a tenebrous cave" |
| adj. | 7. dark | (used of color) having a dark hue.; "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue" |
| ~ black | being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light.; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" |
| ~ darkish | slightly dark.; "darkish red" |
| adj. | 8. dark | brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes).; "dark eyes" |
| ~ brunet, brunette | marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes.; "a brunette beauty" |
| adj. | 9. black, dark, sinister | stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable.; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him" |
| ~ evil | morally bad or wrong.; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" |
| adj. | 10. dark | secret.; "keep it dark" |
| ~ concealed | hidden on any grounds for any motive.; "a concealed weapon"; "a concealed compartment in his briefcase" |
| adj. | 11. dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen | showing a brooding ill humor.; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" |
| ~ ill-natured | having an irritable and unpleasant disposition. |
| adj. | 12. benighted, dark | lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture.; "this benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"; "the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education" |
| ~ unenlightened | not enlightened; ignorant.; "the devices by which unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order" |
| adj. | 13. dark, obscure | marked by difficulty of style or expression.; "much that was dark is now quite clear to me"; "those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure" |
| ~ uncomprehensible, incomprehensible | difficult to understand.; "the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible" |
| adj. | 14. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry | causing dejection.; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" |
| ~ cheerless, depressing, uncheerful | causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy.; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" |
| adj. | 15. colored, coloured, dark, dark-skinned, non-white | having skin rich in melanin pigments.; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "dark-skinned peoples" |
| ~ black | of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin.; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization" |
| adj. | 16. dark | not giving performances; closed.; "the theater is dark on Mondays" |
| ~ inactive | lacking activity; lying idle or unused.; "an inactive mine"; "inactive accounts"; "inactive machinery" |
| dim | | |
| v. (perception) | 1. dim, dip | switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam. |
| ~ change intensity | increase or decrease in intensity. |
| v. (change) | 2. dim | become dim or lusterless.; "the lights dimmed and the curtain rose" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| v. (change) | 3. dim | make dim or lusterless.; "Time had dimmed the silver" |
| ~ darken | make dark or darker.; "darken a room" |
| v. (change) | 4. blind, dim | make dim by comparison or conceal. |
| ~ darken | make dark or darker.; "darken a room" |
| v. (change) | 5. blur, dim, slur | become vague or indistinct.; "The distinction between the two theories blurred" |
| ~ weaken | become weaker.; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" |
| ~ efface, obliterate | remove completely from recognition or memory.; "efface the memory of the time in the camps" |
| adj. | 6. dim, subdued | lacking in light; not bright or harsh.; "a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music" |
| ~ dark | devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black.; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat" |
| adj. | 7. dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy | lacking clarity or distinctness.; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood" |
| ~ indistinct | not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand.; "indistinct shapes in the gloom"; "an indistinct memory"; "only indistinct notions of what to do" |
| adj. | 8. dim, dimmed | made dim or less bright.; "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner" |
| ~ low-beam | used of headlights.; "following with low-beam headlights" |
| adj. | 9. black, bleak, dim | offering little or no hope.; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"; "took a dim view of things" |
| ~ hopeless | without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success.; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down" |
| adj. | 10. dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow | slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity.; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" |
| ~ stupid | lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity. |
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