darkness

Examples

• All

• No one will care, and when you cry in the darkness, no one will hear you.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Inside, after the humid, velvety darkness, the market seemed too bright and too cold.

  Fiction book (1990)

• There is this darkness deep, deep inside.

• I opened wide the door, darkness there and nothing more.

• And then the darkness came on the land.

  The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

• We are coming out of the darkness and into the light.

  The Great Dictator (1940)

• It's a moment to moment choice of light over darkness, truth over illusion.

• We would have darkness, true darkness again.

  Tim Ferriss

• As we drove away from Granville and the darkness fell around us, our sleepiness returned.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Darkness is falling.

  Reign of Chaos (2022)

Synonyms

D

dark

vsdarkness

456 1.0

The time when there is little or no light

refers to that condition as a named state rather than as a time

S

shade

vsdarkness

102 1.0

A dark area where sunlight does not reach

is a general term for low illumination in any place or time

B

blackness

vsdarkness

31 3.4

A place with no light at all

also applies to places with only some reduction of light, not just full absence

G

gloom

vsdarkness

20 3.6

Low light or darkness that makes a place feel sad

is the simple physical lack of light without emotional tone

T

total darkness

vsdarkness

8 3.5

A situation with no light at all

can mean partial or complete low illumination, not only full absence

C

complete darkness

vsdarkness

4 2.5

A state with no light at all

also covers partial lack of light, not only total absence

S

semidarkness

vsdarkness

1 4.4

Low light when a place is partly dark

includes both partial and full lack of light, not only partial

S

somberness

vsdarkness

• US

6.5

A state of dim light when a place looks dark and shadowy

is the neutral term for lack of light without emotional tone

D

duskiness

vsdarkness

7.2

A low level of light, like at sunset

covers both total and partial lack of light, not only dimness

L

lowlight

vsdarkness

4.6

A place or time with very little light

applies to any level of reduced light including complete absence

S

shadowiness

vsdarkness

6.8

A dark area where light is blocked

is the broader concept of lack of light, not only patchy coverage

S

shadowland

vsdarkness

8.2

A dark area where little light reaches

is the general state of low illumination across places and times

L

lightlessness

vsdarkness

8.8

Complete darkness so you cannot see anything

includes partial low light situations as well as total absence

P

pitch-blackness

vsdarkness

4.6

Complete darkness with no light at all

is broader, covering also partial lack of light, not only total absence

P

pitch blackness

vsdarkness

4.4

Complete darkness with no light at all

includes both partial dimness and complete lack of light, not just total

Antonyms

L

light

∞ 1.0

Brightness from the sun, lamps, or fire that makes things visible

B

brightness

41 1.0

How much light something gives or how close it looks to white

Compounds

T

total darkness

8 3.5

A situation with no light at all

C

complete darkness

4 2.5

A state with no light at all

P

Prince of Darkness

• Literature

1 8.8

A powerful evil being in some religions who rules Hell and tempts people

A

act of darkness

• Literature

9.9

A very bad action that harms people

How Dark

blackness

31 3.4

darkness

534 1.0

dimness

4 3.4

twilight

36 2.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology