complete darkness
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2.5
- noun
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oscuridad total
- And we can do one run with headlights and compare it to a run in complete darkness.
- awake in complete darkness
- almost complete darkness
- complete darkness fell
If all you saw was complete darkness, would you move forward?
- If all you saw was complete darkness, would you move forward?
- Trying to take apart a picnic in complete darkness was slightly more difficult.
- You know, five days in complete darkness, being jostled around.
- Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger?
- It's it's worse at night when you do it in complete darkness.
- It just doesn't go down low enough in complete darkness.
- And the bats then hear these echoes and they turn this information into an acoustic image, and this enables them to Orient in complete darkness.
Examples
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After God knows how long, my flashlight flickered out, leaving me in complete darkness.
Blog text (20) -
The family was in complete darkness.
Fiction book (1994) -
Could you live in complete darkness for three months straight?
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If all you saw was complete darkness, would you move forward?
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Now the hard part... it's time to drive in complete darkness.
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Back in the studio, she works in complete darkness, always with the help of a seeing assistant.
Blog text (5) -
The reason is that all of lower Manhattan is in complete darkness.
Blog text (4) -
Ed withdraws as much as he can into his corner until he is in complete darkness.
Fiction book (2000) -
I awoke with a start in almost complete darkness.
Fiction book (2002) -
We would walk miles in complete darkness, with no moon and no flashlights.
Synonyms
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1.0
A time or place with almost no light
456
1.0
The time when there is little or no light
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3.4
A place with no light at all
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3.6
Low light or darkness that makes a place feel sad
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5.7
A time when people turn off lights in a city to hide from enemy planes
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3.5
A situation with no light at all
Complete darkness so you cannot see anything
Complete darkness with no light at all
Complete darkness with no light at all
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a total absence of light' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'complete' (total, whole) with 'darkness' (lack of light); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the phrase. This compositional intensifier + noun pattern is cross-linguistically common (e.g. 'oscuridad total', 'obscurité totale'), reinforcing immediate comprehensibility.
Etymology
The phrase complete darkness comes from a simple image: darkness that is complete, filling a room so you cannot see anything. That's why it now means 'a total absence of light'.