| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | Absence or deficiency of light: darkness, dimness, duskiness, murkiness, obscureness, obscurity. See LIGHT. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Having little or no light: black, pitch-dark. See LIGHT. 2. Somewhat black: blackish, dusky. See COLORS. 3. Characterized by or expressive of a foreboding somberness: lowery, sullen. See WARN. 4. Deficient in brightness: caliginous, dim, dusky, murky, obscure. See LIGHT. 5. Of a complexion tending toward brown or black: bistered, black-a-vised, brunet, dusky, swarthy. See COLORS. 6. Dark and depressing: black, bleak, blue, cheerless, desolate, dismal, dreary, gloomy, glum, joyless, somber, tenebrific. See HAPPY, LIGHT. 7. Marked by little hopefulness: dismal, gloomy, pessimistic. See HAPPY, HOPE.
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