dusky+shadowy
51sombre — Synonyms and related words: black, bleak, cheerless, dark, darkling, darksome, depressed, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, doleful, dolorous, dreary, dull, dusky, foreboding, funereal, gloomy, grave, grey, grim, grim faced, grim visaged, joyless,… …
52sunless — Synonyms and related words: Stygian, beamless, black, black as night, caliginous, cheerless, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, darkling, darksome, depressing, drear, dreary, dusky, ebon, ebony, eclipsed, funereal, gloomy, grey, grim, inky,… …
53twilight — Synonyms and related words: afterglow, alpenglow, aurora, bad light, brown of dusk, brownness, candlelight, candlelighting, cocklight, crepuscular, crepuscule, dark, darkening, darkish, darkishness, darkling, darksome, darksomeness, dawnlight,… …
54dismal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. cheerless, depressing, gloomy; doleful, somber, funereal. See dejection.Ant., joyous, delightful. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Depressing] Syn. gloomy, dreary, melancholy, dark, cheerless, bleak,… …
55obscurity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Shade Nouns 1. obscurity, dimness, darkness, obscuration, obfuscation, opacity; whiteout; shade, cloud, gloom, duskiness, etc. See concealment, invisibility, cloudiness. 2. unclearness, indefiniteness,… …
56tenebrous — a. Dark, dusky, darksome, gloomy, tenebrious, caliginous, shady, shadowy, obscure, murky, sombre …
57unilluminated — a. Unenlightened, obscure, dark, rayless, darksome, dusky, gloomy, sombre, lurid, shadowy, dim, murky, shady, sunless, dismal …
58dim — I. a. 1. Dusky, dark, obscure, mysterious, indistinct, ill defined, indefinite, shadowy, cloudy, faint. 2. Dull, obtuse, slow to see, slow of understanding or perception. 3. Darkened, obscured, clouded, faint, confused, shorn of its beams. 4.… …
59obscure — I. a. 1. Dark, gloomy, rayless, darksome, unilluminated, unenlightened, dusky, sombre, sombrous, lurid, shadowy, murky, dim. 2. Unintelligible, incomprehensible, indistinct, indefinite, vague, doubtful, enigmatical, mysterious, mystic, mystical,… …
60obscure# — obscure adj 1 murky, gloomy, *dark, dim, dusky Analogous words: shady, shadowy, umbrageous (see corresponding nouns at SHADE) Contrasted words: *clear, lucid: *bright, brilliant, luminous 2 Obscure, dark, vague, enigmatic, cryptic, ambiguous …
