Synonyms for darkness
ˈdɑrk nɪsdark·ness

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1. darknessnoun

   Antonyms:
   lightness

2. darknessnoun

   Antonyms:
   lightness

3. darknessnoun

   Antonyms:
   lightness

4. darknessnoun

   Antonyms:
   lightness

5. darknessnoun

   Antonyms:
   lightness

6. darknessnoun

   Antonyms:
   lightness

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. darkness

   Synonyms:
   blackness, dark, dimness, dusk, gloom, gloominess, obscurity, shade, shadow

   Antonyms:
   blaze, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glare, gleam, gleaming, glimmer, glistening, glistering, glitter, glow, illumination, incandescence, light, luster, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, shine, shining, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dark, darknessnoun

   absence of light or illumination

   Synonyms:
   duskiness, shadow, swarthiness, night, dark, nighttime, wickedness, iniquity

   Antonyms:
   lightness

2. darkness, dark, shadownoun

   an unilluminated area

   "he moved off into the darkness"

   Synonyms:
   nighttime, fantasm, shadower, night, phantom, shadow, iniquity, tincture, dark, wickedness, trace, phantasm, vestige, swarthiness, tail, phantasma, duskiness, apparition

   Antonyms:
   lightness

3. iniquity, wickedness, darkness, darknoun

   absence of moral or spiritual values

   "the powers of darkness"

   Synonyms:
   swarthiness, immorality, shabbiness, sinfulness, lousiness, sin, ugliness, shadow, nighttime, iniquity, night, dark, wickedness, evil, duskiness, unfairness, sliminess, repulsiveness, nefariousness, loathsomeness, vileness, injustice

   Antonyms:
   lightness

4. dark, darknessnoun

   an unenlightened state

   "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness"

   Synonyms:
   duskiness, shadow, swarthiness, night, dark, nighttime, wickedness, iniquity

   Antonyms:
   lightness

5. darknessnoun

   having a dark or somber color

   Synonyms:
   wickedness, swarthiness, iniquity, dark, duskiness, shadow

   Antonyms:
   lightness

6. darkness, duskiness, swarthinessnoun

   a swarthy complexion

   Synonyms:
   duskiness, shadow, swarthiness, dark, wickedness, dimness, iniquity

   Antonyms:
   lightness

Matched Categories

1. • Complexion
   • Condition
   • Illumination
   • Scene
   • Unenlightenment
   • Value

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. evenfall

   it is dark out at evenfall.

   Submitted by rinat on August 14, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. darknessnoun

   Synonyms:
   obscurity, dimness, dark, want of light

2. darknessnoun

   Synonyms:
   ignorance, blindness, want of knowledge

3. darknessnoun

   Synonyms:
   gloom, despondency, cheerlessness, joylessness

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1. darknessnoun

   Synonyms:
   obscurity, shadow, dimness, gloom, infuscation, murkiness, obfuscation, tenebrosity, unenlightenment

   Associated words:
   erebus, ahriman, cimmerii

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "darkness":

   dark, obscurity, blackness, gloom, obscurantism, shadow, night, black

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1. New York:

   No one has explained where they’re going and who they are, the Biden administration is systematically spreading the southern border crisis to communities all around the country, often shrouded in secrecy and under the cloak of darkness.

2. Ronald Reagan:

   You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

3. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross:

   People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.

4. Khaled Meshaal:

   This is a historic opportunity to pressure Israel ... to find an equitable solution for the Palestinian people, and it will be to the credit of the civilized world and the American administration to stop the darkness that we have been suffering from for many years.

5. Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time:

   There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.