darkness

Roget category 421

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
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#421. Darkness

noun

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.

verb

be dark etc. adj.. darken, obscure, shade — dim — tone down, lower — overcast, overshadow — eclipse — obfuscate, offuscate^† — obumbrate^†, adumbrate — cast into the shade becloud, bedim^†, bedarken^† — cast a shade, throw a shade, spread a shade, cast a shadow, cast a gloom, throw a shadow, spread a shadow, cast gloom, throw gloom, spread gloom.
extinguish — put out, blow out, snuff out — doubt.
turn out the lights, douse the lights, dim the lights, turn off the lights, switch off the lights.

adjective

dark, darksome^†, darkling — obscure, tenebrious^†, sombrous^†, pitch dark, pitchy, pitch black — caliginous^† — black etc. (in color) 431.
sunless, lightless etc. (sun) (light), etc. 423 — somber, dusky — unilluminated etc. (illuminate) etc. 420^† — nocturnal — dingy, lurid, gloomy — murky, murksome^† — shady, umbrageous — overcast etc. (dim) 422 — cloudy etc. (opaque) 426 — darkened — etc. v.. dark as pitch, dark as a pit, dark as Erebus [Lat.].
benighted — noctivagant^†, noctivagous^†.

adverb

in the dark, in the shade.

phrase

brief as the lightning in the collied night" [M.

noun

D.]; eldest Night and Chaos, ancestors of Nature" [Paradise Lost]; the blackness of the noonday night" [Longfellow]; the prayer of Ajax was for light" [Longfellow].

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