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(adj)
Reduced in intensity or strength; toned down.
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Having an absence of light, such as at night-time.
(n)
The act of something becoming darker.
Absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch.
Very dark; without light.
(of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
(archaic or literary) Dark, obscure; murky.
Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).
Lowering the morale of; making despondent or depressive; disheartening.
(literally, literary or poetic) Perpetually dark or gloomy.
Causing despair; gloomy and bleak.
Alternative form of tenebrous. [(literary, also figurative) Dark and gloomy; obscure.]
(literary, also figurative) Dark and gloomy; obscure.
Producing darkness, obscuring; (loosely) gloomy.
(figuratively) Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.
Tasting of acidity.
Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected.
Stern, harsh and forbidding.
Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
Difficult to understand; abstruse.
Causing depression or sadness.
(archaic or poetic) gloomy
(comparable) Of a person: having a tendency to be cold and gloomy
Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
The state of being wicked; evil disposition; immorality.
Intending to harm; malevolent.
Devoid of cheer; gloomy.
Despondent; moody; sullen.
Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible.
Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
(uncountable) Deviation from what is right; gross injustice, sin, wickedness.
Given to sudden or frequent changes of mind; temperamental.
Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.
Synonym of bad-tempered: easily or characteristically angered.
Lacking light; unilluminated; dark.
Not active, temporarily or permanently.
The act of giving a glower.
Not enlightened; ignorant in general or of some particular fact.
Impossible or very difficult to understand.
The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night.
Incomprehensible.
(zoology) Active at or around dusk, dawn or twilight.
Not cheerful.
Having a relatively dark skin.
Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.
Illuminated by or as if by twilight; half-lit
Having a color.
British standard spelling of colored.
Not bright or colorful.
(countable) The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
Not illuminated.
Not lit
Not lit.
Having power or influence, but not widely known or recognized.
(poetic) Dark; growing dark; darkening.
Having no light, especially no sunlight.
(of a person) Having brown hair.
(rare) Of a man or boy, having brown or dark brown hair.
Of a blue hue.
(figuratively, literary) Dark and gloomy.
Of or pertaining to Acheron.
(figurative) Of or pertaining to hell.
Hidden
The time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep.
Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds.
(informal) Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.
Synonym of shredded (“cut or torn into narrow strips or small pieces”).
(figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
In shadow; darkened by shadows.
(uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
(v)
(transitive) To make dark or darker by reducing light.
Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown.
(of an image) Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.
An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
(Singlish, Manglish) Lacking awareness; clueless or confused.
A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent.
Causing more sober thought or concern.
Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.
Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).
Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
Plain in appearance; barren, desolate.
In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
Causing great sadness or suffering.
Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic, etc.
Fascinated by corpses; morbid.
(informal) Eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural.
US standard spelling of sombre. [Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.]
Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
(of distance or position; also figurative) Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
Having hidden (unapparent) meaning.
Hard to see through, as a fog or mist.