Synonyms of the word

dark

• adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
• adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
• adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
• adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
• adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
• adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
• adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction…
• n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
• n. (uncountable) Ignorance.
• n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
• n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

aphotic

• adj. having no light, especially no sunlight.
• adj. (chiefly) describing that part of the deep oceans and lakes where photosynthesis is not possible.

benighted

• adj. plunged into darkness.
• adj. overtaken by night.
• adj. lacking knowledge or education; unenlightened.
• v. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of benight.

black

• adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
• adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
• adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the…
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
• adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”).
• adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
• adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
• adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
• adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
• adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
• adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black"…
• adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a…
• adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
• adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light…
• n. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
• n. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
• n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
• n. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
• n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the, countable) The black ball.
• n. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
• n. (Britain, countable) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
• n. (informal, countable) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
• n. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
• n. (countable) Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
• n. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
• v. To make black, to blacken.
• v. To apply blacking to something.
• v. (Britain) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

blue

• adj. Of the colour blue.
• adj. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
• adj. Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
• adj. (politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented…
• adj. (astronomy) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant…
• adj. (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
• adj. (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
• adj. (archaic) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
• adj. (archaic, of women) literary; bluestockinged.
• adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of blue.
• adj. (comedy) Risque or obscene.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the…
• n. A blue dye or pigment.
• n. Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
• n. Blue clothing.
• n. (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
• n. (slang) A member of law enforcement.
• n. The sky, literally or figuratively.
• n. The ocean; deep waters.
• n. Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
• n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 5 points.
• n. Any of the blue-winged butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatini in the family Lycaenidae.
• n. A bluefish.
• n. (Australia, colloquial) An argument.
• n. A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
• n. (Britain) A type of firecracker.
• n. (archaic) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
• n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
• v. (ergative) To make or become blue.
• v. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes…
• v. (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
• v. (transitive, slang) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
• adj. (entertainment, informal) Pornographic or profane.

brunet

• adj. (rare) Of a man's or boy's hair, brown or black hair.
• adj. (rare) Of a man or boy, having brown or black hair.
• n. (rare) A man or boy with brown or black hair.

brunette

• adj. Of a woman or girl, having brown or black hair.
• n. A girl or woman with brown or black hair.

caliginous

• adj. Dark, obscure; murky.

cheerless

• adj. devoid of cheer; gloomy.

colored

• adj. Having a color.
• adj. Having a particular color or kind of color.
• adj. Having prominent colors; colorful.
• adj. Influenced pervasively but subtly.
• adj. (US, now dated and potentially offensive) Of skin color other than the white; in particular: black.
• adj. (South Africa, potentially offensive) Of neither black nor white skin color.
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
• n. (US, now dated and offensive) A colored person.
• n. (laundry) A colored article of clothing.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of color.

coloured

• adj. British spelling standard spelling of colored.
• n. British spelling standard spelling of colored.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of colour.

concealed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of conceal.

condition

• n. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
• n. A requirement, term, or requisite.
• n. (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal…
• n. The health status of a medical patient.
• n. The state or quality.
• n. A particular state of being.
• n. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
• v. To subject to the process of acclimation.
• v. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
• v. (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
• v. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
• v. (transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
• v. (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
• v. (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
• v. (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up…
• v. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged…

crepuscular

• adj. Of or resembling twilight; dim.
• adj. (zoology) Active at or around dusk, dawn or twilight.

dark-skinned

• adj. Having a relatively dark skin.

darkened

• v. simple past tense and past participle of darken.
• adj. Made dark or lightproof by the exclusion of light.

darkening

• v. present participle of darken.
• n. The act of something becoming darker.

darkish

• adj. Somewhat dark.

darkling

• n. Darkness.
• n. (fantasy) A creature that lives in the dark.
• adj. Dark; darkening.
• adj. obscure; done or happening 'in the dark' or unseen.
• adv. In the dark; in obscurity.
• v. present participle of darkle.

darkness

• n. (uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light.
• n. (uncountable) Gloom.
• n. (countable) The product of being dark.
• n. (uncountable) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
• n. (uncountable) Evilness, lack of understanding or compassion, reference to death or suffering.

depressing

• adj. Causing depression or sadness.
• adj. Causing a reduction in economic activity.
• v. present participle of depress.

dim

• adj. Not bright or colorful.
• adj. (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
• adj. Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
• adj. Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
• adv. Dimly, indistinctly.
• n. (archaic) Dimness.
• v. (transitive) To make something less bright.
• v. (intransitive) To become darker.
• v. To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken;…
• v. To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes;…

dingy

• adj. drab; shabby; dirty; squalid.
• n. Alternative form of dinghy.

disconsolate

• adj. Cheerless, dreary.
• adj. Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
• n. (obsolete) Disconsolateness.

dismal

• adj. Disappointingly inadequate.
• adj. Gloomy and bleak.
• adj. Depressing.

dispiriting

• adj. Lowering the morale of; making despondent or depressive; disheartening.
• v. present participle of dispirit.

dour

• adj. Stern, harsh and forbidding.
• adj. Unyielding and obstinate.
• adj. Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.

drab

• adj. Dull, uninteresting, particularly of colour.
• n. A fabric, usually of thick wool or cotton, having a drab colour.
• n. The colour of this fabric; a dun, dull grey, or or dull brownish yellow.
• n. A wooden box, used in saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
• n. (dated) A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
• n. (dated) A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
• n. A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
• v. (obsolete) To consort with prostitutes.

drear

• adj. (poetic) Dreary.
• n. (obsolete) Gloom; sadness.

dreary

• adj. (obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling.
• adj. Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.

dusky

• adj. Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).
• adj. Having a shade of color that is rather dark.
• adj. (dated) dark-skinned.
• adj. ashen, greyish skin coloration.
• n. A dusky shark.
• n. A dusky dolphin.

evil

• adj. Intending to harm; malevolent.
• adj. Morally corrupt.
• adj. Unpleasant, as in 'an evil smell'.
• adj. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
• adj. (obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
• adj. (computing, programming, slang) undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
• n. Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
• n. Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes…
• n. (obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).

gloomful

• adj. (archaic or poetic) gloomy.

glooming

• v. present participle of gloom.
• n. twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.
• n. gloomy behaviour; melancholy.

gloomy

• adj. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
• adj. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.

glowering

• v. present participle of glower.
• n. The act of giving a glower.

glum

• v. (obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
• n. (obsolete) sullenness.
• adj. despondent; moody; sullen.

grim

• adj. dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
• adj. rigid and unrelenting.
• adj. ghastly or sinister.
• adj. (Britain, slang) disgusting; gross.

ill-natured

• adj. Having a bad nature, whether.

illumination

• n. The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
• n. Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.
• n. Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See illuminate (transitive verb).

inactive

• adj. Not active, temporarily or permanently.
• adj. Not functioning or operating; broken down.
• adj. Retired from duty or service.
• adj. (chemistry) Relatively inert.
• adj. (physics) Showing no optical activity in polarized light.

incomprehensible

• adj. Impossible or very difficult to understand.

iniquity

• n. Deviation from what is right; wickedness, gross injustice.
• n. An unfair act or unconscionable deed.
• n. Hostility, malevolence, lawlessness.
• n. Denial of the sovereignty of God.

lightless

• adj. Lacking light; unilluminated.

moody

• adj. Given to sudden or frequent changes of mind; temperamental.
• adj. sulky or depressed.
• adj. dour, gloomy or brooding.
• adj. (slang) dodgy or stolen.

morose

• adj. Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.

night

• n. (countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when…
• n. (countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
• n. (countable) A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a hotel or other accommodation.
• n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
• n. (uncountable) Darkness.
• n. (uncountable) A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
• n. (sports, colloquial) A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.
• interj. Short for good night.
• v. To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.

nighttime

• n. The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night.
• adj. Pertaining to nighttime; appropriate to the night.
• adj. Happening during the night.

obscure

• adj. Dark, faint or indistinct.
• adj. Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
• adj. difficult to understand.
• adj. not well-known.
• v. (transitive) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible,…
• v. (transitive) To hide, put out of sight etc.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To conceal oneself; to hide.

period

• adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
• adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
• interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
• n. A length of time.
• n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
• n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
• n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
• n. Female menstruation.
• n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
• n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
• n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
• n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
• n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
• n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
• n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
• n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
• n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
• n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
• n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

pitch-black

• adj. very dark; without light.

pitch-dark

• adj. Absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch.

saturnine

• adj. Of or born under Saturn's influence.
• adj. Containing lead, or suffering from lead poisoning (saturnia).
• adj. Having a tendency to be gloomy, bitter, and sarcastic; sullenly sardonic.
• adj. Gloomy, depressed, dull.
• adj. Cold and slow to change and react (refers to mood).

scene

• n. The location of an event that attracts attention.
• n. (theater) The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the…
• n. The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go…
• n. So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence,…
• n. The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play,…
• n. An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their…
• n. A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
• n. An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others, creating embarrassment or disruption; often,…
• n. An element of fiction writing.
• n. A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere…
• v. (transitive) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.

semidark

• n. semidarkness.
• adj. Moderately dark.

shadow

• n. A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
• n. Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom, obscurity.
• n. (obsolete) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.
• n. That which looms as though a shadow.
• n. A small degree; a shade.
• n. An imperfect and faint representation.
• n. (Britain, law enforcement) A trainee, assigned to work with an experienced officer.
• n. One who secretly or furtively follows another.
• n. A type of lettering form of word processors that makes a cubic effect.
• n. An influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one.
• n. A spirit; a ghost; a shade.
• n. (obsolete, Latinism) An uninvited guest accompanying one who was invited.
• n. (psychology) In Jungian psychology, an unconscious aspect of the personality.
• v. To block light or radio transmission.
• v. (espionage) To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
• v. To accompany a professional during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to…
• v. (programming) To make an identifier, usually a variable, inaccessible by declaring another of the same…
• v. (computing) To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).
• adj. Unofficial, informal, unauthorized, but acting as though it were.
• adj. Having power or influence, but not widely known or recognized.
• adj. (politics) Acting in a leadership role before being formally recognized.

sinister

• adj. Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister).
• adj. Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
• adj. Of the left side.
• adj. (heraldry) On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.
• adj. (obsolete) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.

sorry

• adj. (of a person) Regretful for an action; grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
• adj. Poor, sad or regrettable.
• interj. Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
• interj. Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
• interj. Used to correct oneself in speech.
• n. The act of saying sorry; an apology.

sour

• adj. Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
• adj. Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
• adj. Tasting or smelling rancid.
• adj. Peevish or bad-tempered.
• adj. (of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
• adj. (of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
• adj. Unfortunate or unfavorable.
• adj. (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
• n. The sensation of a sour taste.
• n. A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
• n. (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
• n. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
• v. (transitive) To make sour.
• v. (intransitive) To become sour.
• v. (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
• v. (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
• v. (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
• v. To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.

status

• n. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
• n. Prestige or high standing.
• n. A situation or state of affairs.
• n. (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
• n. (social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message…

subdued

• adj. Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild.
• adj. Not glaring in color; soft and light in tone.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of subdue.

sulky

• adj. (often derogatory) silent and withdrawn after being upset.
• n. A low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing.
• n. Any carriage seating only the driver.

sullen

• adj. Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.
• adj. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
• adj. Sluggish; slow.
• adj. (obsolete) Lonely; solitary; desolate.
• adj. (obsolete) Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
• adj. (obsolete) Obstinate; intractable.
• n. (obsolete) One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
• n. Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.

tenebrific

• adj. gloomy.
• adj. obscure.

tenebrious

• adj. Alternative form of tenebrous.

tenebrous

• adj. dark and gloomy.

twilight

• n. The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned…
• n. The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
• n. (astronomy) The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
• n. Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.
• adj. Pertaining to or resembling twilight.

twilit

• v. simple past tense of twilight.
• v. past participle of twilight.
• adj. Illuminated by or as if by twilight.

uncheerful

• adj. Not cheerful.

uncomprehensible

• adj. Incomprehensible.

unenlightened

• adj. Not enlightened; ignorant in general or of some particular fact.

unilluminated

• adj. Not illuminated.

unlighted

• adj. Not lit.

unlit

• adj. Not lit.

wickedness

• n. The state of being wicked; evil disposition; immorality.
• n. A wicked or sinful thing or act; morally bad or objectionable behaviour.