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adjective
lack of light
Synonyms: aphotic, atramentous, black, blackish, caliginous, Cimmerian, 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
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adjective
shaded complexion, hair
Synonyms: adumbral, bistered, black, brunet, brunette, dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, dusky, ebon, ebony, sable, swart, swarthy, tan
Antonyms: light
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adjective
hidden, secret
Synonyms: abstruse, anagogic, arcane, cabalistic, complicated, concealed, cryptic, deep, Delphian, enigmatic, esoteric, intricate, knotty, mysterious, mystic, mystical, mystifying, not known, obscure, occult, puzzling, recondite
Antonyms: apparent, distinct, evident, manifest, plain, visible
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adjective
grim, hopeless
Synonyms: bleak, cheerless, dismal, doleful, drab, foreboding, gloomy, joyless, morbid, morose, mournful, ominous, sinister, somber, unpropitious
Antonyms: bright, brilliant, encouraging, hopeful, shining
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adjective
evil, satanic
Synonyms: atrocious, bad, corrupt, damnable, foul, hellish, horrible, immoral, infamous, infernal, nefarious, sinful, sinister, vile, wicked
Antonyms: good, moral
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adjective
ignorant
Synonyms: benighted, uncultivated, unenlightened, unlettered, unread
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adjective
angry, upset
Synonyms: dour, forbidding, frowning, glowering, glum, ominous, scowling, sulky, sullen, threatening
Antonyms: cheerful, happy, pleased
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noun
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
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noun
ignorance; mystery
Synonyms: concealment, denseness, inscrutability, seclusion, secrecy, thickness
Antonyms: cognizance, enlightening, intelligence, sense, sensibility, understanding