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Synonyms for Dark (same or very similar meaning)

WordNet sense 1 (the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside):
night, nighttime

WordNet sense 2 (absence of moral or spiritual values):
darkness, iniquity, wickedness

WordNet sense 3 (an unilluminated area):
shadow

WordNet sense 4 (hidden on any grounds for any motive):
concealed

WordNet sense 5 (showing a brooding ill humor):
dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen

WordNet sense 6 (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition):
ill-natured

WordNet sense 7 (stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable):
sinister

WordNet sense 8 (morally bad or wrong):
evil

WordNet sense 9 (lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture):
benighted

WordNet sense 10 (not enlightened; ignorant):
unenlightened

WordNet sense 11 (marked by difficulty of style or expression):
obscure

WordNet sense 12 (difficult to understand):
incomprehensible, uncomprehensible

WordNet sense 13 (causing dejection):
blue, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, grim, sorry, dispiriting, dingy

WordNet sense 14 (lacking cheer; depressing):
uncheerful

WordNet sense 15 (slightly dark):
darkish

WordNet sense 16 (dark and gloomy):
tenebrous

WordNet sense 17 (without illumination):
lightless

WordNet sense 18 (depressingly dark):
gloomy, sulky, gloomful, glooming

WordNet sense 19 (lighted by or as if by twilight):
dusky, twilight

WordNet sense 20 (lacking in light; not bright or harsh):
dim

WordNet sense 21 (like twilight; dim):
crepuscular

WordNet sense 22 (intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness):
Cimmerian

WordNet sense 23 (dark and misty and gloomy):
caliginous

WordNet sense 24 (extremely dark):
black, pitch-black, pitch-dark

WordNet sense 25 (marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes):
brunette

WordNet sense 26 (having skin rich in melanin pigments):
colored, coloured, dark-skinned, non-white

WordNet sense 27 (lacking activity; lying idle or unused):
inactive


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