Synonyms for darkness
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Dark — gloom; gloominess; depression
dark, shadow, night, obscurity formal, gloom, murk, shade, tenebrosity rare
2. Duskiness
duskiness rare, swarthiness rare
Other
murkiness, dimness, blindness, wickedness, obfuscation formal, lightlessness rare, sableness rare
Definitions
- n. 1
Gloom; gloominess; depression.
- n. 2
The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.
The darkness of the room made it difficult to see.
Forms
- Plural
- darknesses → darks, shadows, nights, obscurities…
Example sentences
- shadow There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt.
- shade The thin man took a rest in the shade of a shrine.
- gloom I hoped you could hurl some lumens into the gloom.
- blindness The worst kind of blindness is choosing not to see.
- wickedness The desire of wickedness came up in your heart.
By length
- 4 letters
- dark1, murk1
- 5 letters
- night1, shade1, gloom1
- 6 letters
- shadow2
- 7 letters
- dimness
- 9 letters
- blindness2, obscurity4, murkiness, duskiness, sableness
- 10 letters
- wickedness3
- 11 letters
- obfuscation4, tenebrosity, swarthiness
- 13 letters
- lightlessness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (shadow2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- obscurité
- Italiano
- oscurità
- Español
- oscuridad
- Català
- obscuritat