dead of night
noun
Roget 126:
evening,
eve;
decline of day,
fall of day,
close of day;
candlelight,
candlelighting†;
eventide,
nightfall,
curfew,
dusk,
twilight,
eleventh hour;
sunset,
sundown;
going down of the sun,
cock-shut,
dewy eve,
gloaming,
bedtime.
afternoon,
postmeridian,
p. m.
autumn,
fall,
fall of the leaf;
autumnal equinox;
Indian summer,
St. Luke's summer,
St. Martin's summer.
midnight;
dead of night,
witching hour,
witching hour of night,
witching time of night;
winter;
killing time.
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Roget 421:
darkness
etc.
adj.,
absence of light;
blackness
etc.
(dark color)
431;
obscurity,
gloom,
murk;
dusk
etc.
(dimness)
422.
Cimmerian darkness†,
Stygian darkness,
Egyptian darkness;
night;
midnight;
dead of night,
witching hour of night,
witching time of night;
blind man's holiday;
darkness visible,
darkness that can be felt;
palpable obscure;
Erebus [Lat.];
the jaws of darkness"
[Midsummer Night's Dream];
sablevested night"
[Milton].
shade,
shadow,
umbra,
penumbra;
sciagraphy†.
obscuration;
occultation,
adumbration,
obumbration†;
obtenebration†,
offuscation†,
caligation†;
extinction;
eclipse,
total eclipse;
gathering of the clouds.
shading;
distribution of shade;
chiaroscuro
etc.
(light)
420.
noctivagation†.
[perfectly black objects]
black body;
hohlraum [Phys.];
black hole;
dark star;
dark matter,
cold dark matter.
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Moby thesaurus: Egyptian darkness, Erebus, awful silence, blackness, dark, darkness, darkness visible, dead, deathlike silence, golden silence, hush, hush of night, inaudibility, intense darkness, lightlessness, lucid stillness, lull, midnight, moonlessness, mum, night, noiselessness, noonday night, obscure, obscure darkness, obscurity, peace, pitch-darkness, pitchy darkness, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, rest, silence, silentness, solemn silence, soundlessness, starlessness, still, stillness, sunlessness, swarthiness, tacitness, taciturnity, tenebrosity, tenebrousness, the palpable obscure, tomblike silence, total darkness, tranquillity, velvet darkness, whisht ... show more.
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