What is another word for dark?
1017 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ dˈɑːk], [ dˈɑːk], [ d_ˈɑː_k]Table of Contents
Similar words for dark:- all (adjective)
- angry, upset (adjective)
- benighted (adjective)
- black (adjective)
- bleak (adjective)
- blind (adjective)
- cheerless (adjective)
- closed (adjective)
- cloudy (adjective)
- cryptic (adjective)
- dark (adjective)
- deep (adjective)
- depressing (adjective)
- difficult (adjective)
- dim (adjective)
- dingy (adjective)
- disconsolate (adjective)
- dismal (adjective)
- dull (adjective)
- dusky (adjective)
- enigmatic/enigmatical (adjective)
- evil (adjective)
- evil, satanic (adjective)
- foggy (adjective)
- funereal (adjective)
- grim, hopeless (adjective)
- hard (adjective)
- heavy (adjective)
- hidden (adjective)
- hidden, secret (adjective)
- hush-hush (adjective)
- ignorant (adjective)
- impenetrable (adjective)
- incomprehensible (adjective)
- indistinct (adjective)
- invisible (adjective)
- jet (adjective)
- lackluster (adjective)
- lack of light (adjective)
- misty (adjective)
- murky (adjective)
- mysterious (adjective)
- nebulous (adjective)
- night (adjective)
- obscure (adjective)
- obscured (adjective)
- ominous (adjective)
- opaque (adjective)
- overcast (adjective)
- pessimistic (adjective)
- recondite (adjective)
- sable (adjective)
- sad (adjective)
- seamy (adjective)
- secret (adjective)
- sedative (adjective)
- shadowy (adjective)
- slumberous (adjective)
- sober (adjective)
- somber (adjective)
- sooty (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- supernatural (adjective)
- superphysical (adjective)
- supersensible (adjective)
- swarthy (adjective)
- tenebrific (adjective)
- turbid (adjective)
- ugly (adjective)
- ulterior (adjective)
- umbrageous (adjective)
- unknown (adjective)
- unseeing (adjective)
- unseen (adjective)
- vague (adjective)
- acheronian (noun)
- aphotic (noun)
- benighted (noun)
- blackness (noun)
- brunet (noun)
- brunette (noun)
- caliginous (noun)
- cimmerian (noun)
- colored (noun)
- coloured (noun)
- concealed (noun)
- concealment (noun)
- dark (noun)
- darkness (noun)
- dusk (noun)
- evening (noun)
- huggermugger (noun)
- ignorance; mystery (noun)
- lack of light (noun)
- night (noun)
- place, time without light (noun)
- secrecy (noun)
- shadow (noun)
- dodge (verb)
- other synonyms
- Acherontic
- Stygian
- avoid
- cloudy
- galaxy
- tanned
- torch
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Dark:
adj.
•all (adjective)- dark.
- threatening,
- sullen,
- frowning,
- scowling,
- dour,
- sulky,
- glum,
- forbidding,
- glowering.
- un-taught,
- un-cultured,
- un civilized,
- un-schooled,
- un-cultivated,
- un cultured,
- un taught,
- un schooled,
- un-learned,
- un educated,
- un-educated,
- un-civilized,
- un cultivated.
- hopeless,
- un-promising,
- more unpromising,
- most unpromising,
- drearer,
- more disheartening,
- dis heartening,
- most disheartening,
- gloomy,
- drearest,
- un promising,
- dis-heartening.
- without egress,
- in darkness,
- leading nowhere,
- unseeing,
- typhlotic,
- closed at one end,
- unsighted,
- destitute of vision,
- amaurotic,
- Visionless,
- blind as a bat,
- undiscerning,
- without exit,
- dead-end.
- un-comfortable,
- mopey,
- de pressed,
- mopiest,
- woebegone,
- in dumps,
- more drearisome,
- jarring,
- in the dumps,
- most drearisome,
- drab,
- draggier,
- de-solate,
- mopier,
- draggiest,
- de-pressed,
- most dejecting,
- un comfortable,
- more dejecting,
- de solate.
- out order,
- out business,
- gone fishing,
- most folded,
- Padlocked,
- most padlocked,
- more padlocked,
- not open,
- more folded.
- more nubilous,
- more nontransparent,
- more nontranslucent,
- most blurred,
- nontransparent,
- most nubilous,
- most emulsified,
- more blurred,
- in definite,
- more emulsified,
- most nontranslucent,
- emulsified,
- in-definite,
- most nontransparent,
- non translucent,
- mushy,
- non-translucent,
- non transparent,
- mucky.
- un-informative,
- more delphian,
- in-comprehensible,
- most uninformative,
- un-clearer,
- in-explicable,
- un clearest,
- un-clear,
- un-fathomable,
- more delphic,
- un fathomable,
- most delphic,
- in comprehensible,
- more uninformative,
- un-clearest,
- puzzling,
- most delphian,
- un clear,
- un informative,
- un clearer,
- in explicable.
- hard to solve,
- unaccommodating,
- fractious,
- hard to please,
- paradoxical,
- irritable,
- tangled,
- oafish,
- hard to explain,
- meandering,
- unamenable,
- bearish,
- involved.
- poorly lit,
- fainter,
- mater,
- misty.
- most smirched,
- more smirched,
- be dimmed,
- most discolored,
- more discolored,
- brokendown,
- more bedimmed,
- dis-colored,
- most darkish,
- dis colored,
- most bedimmed,
- more darkish,
- be-dimmed.
- most tornup,
- more crushed,
- more torn up,
- most torn up,
- de stroyed,
- in pits,
- most hurting,
- more tornup,
- more torn-up,
- dis tressed,
- most ripped,
- dis-tressed,
- in consolable,
- grief stricken,
- in-consolable,
- more ripped,
- most crushed,
- de-stroyed,
- most torn-up,
- doleful,
- tornup,
- more hurting.
- un-happy,
- un happier,
- inauspicious,
- un-fortunate,
- un fortunate,
- de-pressing,
- in auspicious,
- dis-agreeable,
- un happy,
- dis agreeable,
- un happiest,
- in-auspicious,
- de pressing.
- hazy,
- matte,
- toned-down,
- dun,
- subfusc.
- swartest,
- more adusk,
- more crepuscular,
- most dark complexioned,
- darkcomplexioned,
- most adusk,
- most darkcomplexioned,
- dark complexioned,
- most brunette,
- most twilit,
- swart,
- more twilight,
- more darkcomplexioned,
- most crepuscular,
- more twilit,
- more dark-complexioned,
- most twilight,
- swarter,
- most dark-complexioned,
- more dark complexioned.
- most stumping,
- more stumping,
- sibylline,
- most stickling,
- more stickling,
- in decipherable,
- in-scrutable,
- in-decipherable,
- most sphinxlike,
- in scrutable,
- most enigmatic,
- more sphinxlike,
- teasing.
- zerozero,
- smaziest,
- pea soupy,
- more peasoupy,
- most pea soupy,
- more zerozero,
- most peasoupy,
- more pea soupy,
- peasoupy,
- most zero zero,
- most pea-soupy,
- most zerozero,
- smazier,
- more pea-soupy,
- more zero zero,
- most zero-zero,
- zero zero,
- more zero-zero.
- with-held,
- more hermetical,
- withheld,
- un-disclosed,
- with held,
- most sequestered,
- out view,
- under-ground,
- more unrevealed,
- un revealed,
- in discernible,
- more sequestered,
- most eclipsed,
- in visible,
- most unrevealed,
- in-discernible,
- most imperceivable,
- under-cover,
- most shrouded,
- more shrouded,
- un-revealed,
- un disclosed,
- in-visible,
- un-detected,
- under cover,
- Imperceivable,
- un-exposed,
- more eclipsed,
- most hermetical,
- un exposed,
- in dark,
- hermetic,
- masked,
- more imperceivable,
- un detected.
- not known,
- complicated,
- occult,
- esoteric,
- anagogic,
- mystical,
- abstruse,
- mystifying,
- cabalistic,
- intricate,
- mystic,
- delphian,
- arcane,
- knotty.
- more sub rosa,
- most under the table,
- more under the table,
- more under-the-table,
- hush hush,
- more subrosa,
- most sub-rosa,
- most subrosa,
- more closet,
- most closet,
- hushhush,
- subrosa,
- most sub rosa,
- most under-the-table,
- more sub-rosa.
- un-knowable,
- more unknowable,
- un-graspable,
- most ungraspable,
- in-cognizable,
- un knowable,
- in cognizable,
- un-accountable,
- more ungraspable,
- most unknowable,
- un graspable,
- most incognizable,
- more incognizable,
- un accountable.
- in exact,
- in-distinct,
- most bleared,
- un-determined,
- unheard,
- in-audible,
- un heard,
- un defined,
- out focus,
- in conspicuous,
- un-defined,
- in determinate,
- in distinguishable,
- in distinct,
- in-conspicuous,
- more bleared,
- un determined,
- in audible,
- un-heard,
- inexact,
- in-exact,
- in-distinguishable.
- Obscured,
- unobservable,
- imperceptible,
- latent,
- camouflaged,
- unapparent,
- invisible,
- covert,
- indiscernible.
- pitchdark,
- more bituminous,
- more midnight,
- more coalblack,
- most pitch-dark,
- more coal-black,
- more obsidian,
- mid night,
- pitchblack,
- more pitchdark,
- most obsidian,
- more pitch dark,
- mid-night,
- most coalblack,
- most pitchdark,
- coal black,
- most midnight,
- most raven,
- most coal black,
- most coal-black,
- more pitch-dark,
- most pitch dark,
- most ebon,
- most atramentous,
- more ebon,
- coalblack,
- more coal black,
- pitch black,
- more atramentous,
- most bituminous,
- more raven.
- un-inspired,
- more nothing,
- more hohum,
- most hohum,
- un imaginative,
- more lusterless,
- most pabulum,
- sombrest,
- un-imaginative,
- more pabulum,
- most zero,
- most ho-hum,
- more ho hum,
- more zero,
- un inspired,
- laidback,
- most ho hum,
- most lusterless,
- sombrer,
- most nothing,
- more ho-hum.
- pitch-black,
- obfuscous,
- lurid,
- rayless,
- clouded,
- ill-lighted,
- pitchy,
- grimy,
- opaque.
- un-cleanest,
- un-cleaner,
- most darkened,
- un cleaner,
- more darkened,
- un cleanest,
- un clean,
- more glowering,
- most glowering.
- un-canny,
- un canniest,
- un canny,
- most necromantic,
- more astrological,
- un cannier,
- un-canniest,
- un-cannier,
- in soluble,
- magical,
- more necromantic,
- most alchemistic,
- most astrological,
- more alchemistic,
- more transcendental,
- in-soluble.
- far off,
- clear as mud,
- seldom seen,
- unhonored,
- Fuliginous,
- orphic,
- unheard-of,
- irrelevant,
- unnoted,
- unheard of.
- un-luckiest,
- most precursive,
- un lucky,
- more doomful,
- more malificent,
- un luckier,
- un friendliest,
- un luckiest,
- Ill-boding,
- most presaging,
- un-friendly,
- more malefic,
- illfated,
- pre-monitory,
- most malificent,
- illboding,
- un-friendliest,
- more premonitory,
- more precursive,
- un-friendlier,
- most doomful,
- ill fated,
- pre-cursive,
- un-lucky,
- un propitious,
- portentous,
- un-luckier,
- in-hospitable,
- most malefic,
- ill boding,
- pre monitory,
- un friendlier,
- most premonitory,
- more presaging,
- in hospitable,
- pre cursive.
- dis-trustful,
- re-signed,
- more foreboding,
- most foreboding,
- mis anthropic,
- more fatalistic,
- fore boding,
- most fatalistic,
- dis trustful,
- mis-anthropic,
- re signed,
- fore-boding.
- most heart rending,
- most discomposing,
- more saddening,
- most heart-rending,
- dis-composing,
- un-satisfactory,
- most saddening,
- more heart rending,
- heart rending,
- more heart-rending,
- tearjerking,
- sad,
- more discomposing,
- un satisfactory,
- up setting,
- dis composing,
- tear jerking,
- up-setting,
- tearful.
- sootcovered,
- soot-covered,
- most blackened,
- most soot covered,
- most soot-covered,
- most sootcovered,
- more blackened,
- more soot covered,
- soot covered,
- more soot-covered,
- more sootcovered.
- cross,
- mean,
- cantankerous,
- ungenial,
- cynical,
- noncooperative,
- fretful,
- obstinate,
- irascible,
- surly,
- broody,
- hostile,
- crabby,
- petulant,
- melancholy,
- unsociable,
- uncooperative,
- beetle-browed,
- long-faced,
- dejected,
- unfriendly,
- contrary,
- grouchy,
- Moping,
- grumpy,
- malevolent,
- dissociable.
- un-earthliest,
- un earthly,
- more superordinary,
- supra-natural,
- most phantom,
- more phantom,
- super human,
- un comprehensible,
- most supermundane,
- most superordinary,
- super-mundane,
- more supranatural,
- fairiest,
- super natural,
- meta-physical,
- super ordinary,
- supra natural,
- meta physical,
- un-earthly,
- un-comprehensible,
- para normal,
- un earthlier,
- un-earthlier,
- super-natural,
- fairier,
- most supranatural,
- para-normal,
- more supermundane,
- un earthliest,
- superhuman,
- super-human,
- super mundane,
- super-ordinary.
- extra sensory,
- extra-sensory,
- more extrasensory,
- super-physical,
- extra mundane,
- extra-mundane,
- super physical,
- most extrasensory.
- most darkskinned,
- most dark skinned,
- most dark-hued,
- more darkskinned,
- more dark hued,
- most dark hued,
- most darkhued,
- most dark-skinned,
- dark skinned,
- dark hued,
- more dark skinned,
- more dark-skinned,
- more darkhued,
- darkskinned,
- more dark-hued,
- darkhued.
- out the sun,
- out of sun,
- boskiest,
- most umbrous,
- most shadowed,
- more shadowed,
- boskier,
- shadowed,
- more umbrous,
- out sun.
n.
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- negative,
- colors,
- despairing,
- broken.
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- Flaxen,
- bistered,
- blond,
- auburn,
- Black-a-vised,
- fair-haired.
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- Complexioned,
- Complected,
- bronzed,
- warn,
- albino,
- Lowery,
- color,
- bloodless,
- brown.
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- hope.
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- obscurity,
- murkiness,
- obscureness,
- dimness.
- wicked,
- inactive,
- depressing,
- uncheerful,
- unlit,
- saturnine,
- sour,
- unlighted,
- lightproof,
- tenebrous,
- gloomful,
- iniquity,
- moody,
- glooming,
- sinister,
- wickedness,
- nighttime,
- unilluminated,
- shadow,
- light-tight,
- unenlightened,
- tenebrific,
- grim,
- twilight,
- dispiriting,
- darkling,
- uncomprehensible,
- ill-natured,
- morose,
- tenebrious,
- evil,
- blue,
- darkening,
- incomprehensible,
- subdued.
v.
•dodge (verb)- putting move on,
- moves to the side,
- move the side,
- gotten out of,
- shortcircuiting,
- circumlocuted,
- getting out of,
- moving the side,
- circumlocuting,
- moved to side,
- moves to side,
- gives slip,
- gat out of,
- give slip,
- moving side,
- shortcircuited,
- moves side,
- short-circuits,
- puts move on,
- put move on,
- move side,
- gave the slip,
- giving slip,
- gat around,
- moved the side,
- shortcircuit,
- skips out on,
- juking,
- moving to side,
- moving to the side,
- puts the move on,
- Short-circuited,
- juked,
- circumlocutes,
- gave slip,
- skipping out on,
- shortcircuits,
- moved to the side,
- gets around,
- tergiversing,
- gotten around,
- got around,
- tergiverses,
- short circuited,
- skipped out on,
- short circuiting,
- moved side,
- putting the move on,
- gives the slip,
- moves the side,
- giving the slip,
- turns aside,
- fended off,
- tergiversed,
- gets out of.
Other synonyms:
•Acherontic-
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- fair.
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- color-coded,
- brash,
- chintzy,
- bold.
- bereft of light,
- close,
- benightedness,
- dark-colored,
- Benightment,
- weak,
- undefined,
- feeble,
- Obfuscated,
- ill-defined,
- Secretness,
- gray,
- indirect,
- unperceiving,
- confused,
- unenlightenment,
- Unobserving,
- in the shade,
- ableptical,
- sightless,
- unrecognizable,
- in the dark,
- eyeless,
- indefinite,
- indistinguishable,
- insidious.
Paraphrases for Dark:
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
dark-coloured, black.
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Proper noun, singular
black.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
rules.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
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Other Related
Antonyms for Dark:
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adj.
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all
light.
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grim, hopeless
nice.
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lack of light
pleased, hopeful, encouraging, clean, clear, evident, visible, cheerful, sparkling, shining, good, apparent, smart, distinct, manifest, illuminated, intelligent, sunny, brilliant, vivid, plain, vivacious, luminous, moral, bright, lucid, radiant, joyful, happy.
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Other antonyms:
endorsed, venerable, esteemed, firm, squeaky-clean, blunt, comforting, unerring, crystalline, certain, dazzling, heartwarming, blatant, high, righteous, transparent, cordial, frank, aglitter, honorable, ashen, pure, right, authorized, expert, high-minded, cultivated, sanctioned, sunshiny, ashy, intellectual, appreciable, strong, outspoken, creditable, moonlit, glossy, ethical, determined, commendable, Relucent, fathomable, accessible, experienced, highbrow, inoffensive, communicative, comprehendible, sure, open, guiltless, upstanding, noble, immaculate, legal, seemly, licensed, schooled, virtuous, gleaming, starlit, pallid, reputable, enlightened, pasty, self-explanatory, incorruptible, worthy, acquainted, exact, sublime, correct, chaste, proper, blameless, permitted, decent, spotless, defined, knowledgeable, law-abiding, principled, elevated, sophisticated, legible, uncorrupted, unobjectionable, beamy, well-informed, resplendent, direct, innocent, peaked, polymath, approved, lightsome, blonde, friendly, respected, tactless, exemplary, lighthearted, intelligible, lofty, upright, aware, lily-white, agleam, sallow, out front, self-evident, trained, moony, encouraged, irreproachable, wan, wholesome, knowable, supported, active, buoyant, decorous, permissible, unconcealed, light-haired, perfect, candid, highlighted, peaky, cultured, scrupulous, legitimate, understandable, good-natured.
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all
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n.
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ignorance; mystery
revelation.
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place, time without light
understanding, daylight, sensibility, enlightening, cognizance, morning, brightness, sense, daybreak, illumination, lightness, daytime, day, intelligence.
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ignorance; mystery
Homophones for Dark:
- deodorise, deodourise, dye-works, drosky, durres, dray horse, diuresis, diarrhoeic, doric, diarchy, dirge, do drugs, dressy, darkey, dragee, dairy cow, Darius I, diarrheic, dirac, dark ages, Dr. Seuss, dreck, dryas, dirk, data track, derrick, dregs, drake, dyarchy, duress, drawers, do work, darke, dreg, derris, dressage, dork, dross, Druse, dirca, Darius Iii, dr. j, deodorize, dieresis, doorcase, durga, deterge, droshky, dietrich, drug, dry ice, drag, dress, dry wash, diaeresis, durazzo, drowse, darkish, darky, drogue, drowsy, darkie, Druze, doris, drayhorse, data hierarchy, draco.
Hypernym for Dark:
n.
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state
blackout, brownout, blackness, night, pitch blackness, semidarkness, black, dimout, total darkness, foulness, lightlessness.
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state
Hyponym for Dark:
n.
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state
status, condition, illumination.
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state