N. d, darkness, ], absence of light, "eldest night and chaos, ancestors of nature", blackness, "the blackness of the noonday night", obscurity, "the prayer of ajax was for light",
gloom,
murk,
dusk, cimmerian darkness, stygian darkness, egyptian darkness, night,
midnight, dead of night, witching hour of night, witching time of night, blind man's holiday, darkness visible, darkness that can be felt, palpable obscure,
erebus, "the jaws of darkness", "sablevested night", shade, shadow,
umbra,
penumbra,
sciagraphy,
obscuration,
occultation,
adumbration,
obumbration,
obtenebration, offuscation|, caligation|,
extinction,
eclipse, total eclipse, gathering of the clouds, shading, distribution of shade,
chiaroscuro,
noctivagation, black body, hohlraum,
black hole, dark star, dark matter, cold dark matter
V. be dark,
darken, obscure, shade,
dim, tone down, lower, overcast, overshadow,
eclipse,
obfuscate, offuscate|,
obumbrate,
adumbrate, cast into the shade becloud,
bedim, bedarken, cast a shade, throw a shade, spread a shade, cast a shadow, cast a gloom, throw a shadow, spread a shadow, cast gloom, throw gloom, spread gloom,
extinguish, put out, blow out, snuff out,
doubt, turn out the lights, douse the lights, dim the lights, turn off the lights, switch off the lights
Adj. dark,
darksome,
darkling, obscure,
tenebrious,
sombrous, pitch dark,
pitchy, pitch black,
caliginous, black, sunless, lightless &c. (see sun , light, ),
somber,
dusky, unilluminated &c. (see illuminate ),
nocturnal,
dingy,
lurid,
gloomy,
murky, murksome,
shady,
umbrageous, overcast,
cloudy,
darkened,
&c. v, dark as pitch, dark as a pit, dark as erebus,
benighted,
noctivagant, |,
noctivagous, |
Adv. in the dark, in the shade
Phr. "brief as the lightning in the collied night" [m
N. uncertainty,
incertitude,
doubt, doubtfulness,
dubiety,
dubitation, dubitancy|, dubitousness,
hesitation,
suspense,
perplexity,
embarrassment,
dilemma,
bewilderment,
timidity,
vacillation,
diaporesis, indetermination, vagueness,
haze,
fog, obscurity,
ambiguity,
contingency,
dependence,
dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility, open question, onus probandi, blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other, needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay, roving commission,
precariousness,
fallibility V. be uncertain, wonder whether, lose the clue, lose the clew,
scent, miss one's way, not know what to make of, not know which way to turn, not know whether one stands on one's head or one's heels, float in a sea of doubt,
hesitate,
flounder, lose oneself, lose one's head, muddle one's brains, render uncertain, put out,
pose,
puzzle,
perplex,
embarrass,
confuse,
confound,
bewilder, bother,
molder, addle the wits, throw off the scent, ambiguas in vulgus spargere voces, keep in suspense,
doubt, hang in the balance, tremble in the balance, depend
Adj. uncertain,
casual,
random, changeable, doubtful,
dubious, indecisive, unsettled, undecided, undetermined, in suspense, open to discussion,
controvertible, in question, vague,
indeterminate, indefinite,
ambiguous,
equivocal, undefined,
undefinable, confused,
mystic,
oracular,
dazed,
perplexing,
enigmatic,
paradoxical,
apocryphal,
problematical,
hypothetical, experimental, unpredictable, unforeseeable (unknowable) 519, fallible, questionable,
precarious,
slippery,
ticklish,
debatable, disputable,
unreliable, untrustworthy,
contingent, contingent on, dependent on, subject to, dependent on circumstances, occasional,
provisional, unauthentic,
unauthenticated, unauthoritative, unascertained, unconfirmed, undemonstrated, untold, uncounted, in a state of uncertainty, in a cloud, in a maze,
bushed, off the track, ignorant,
&c. 491, afraid to say, out of one's reckoning,
astray,
adrift, at sea, at fault, at a loss, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus,
puzzled, lost, abroad, dsorient, distracted,
distraught Adv. pendente lite, sub spe rati
Phr. heaven knows, who can tell? who shall decide when doctors disagree? ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces
N. unbelief, disbelief, misbelief, discredit,
miscreance,
infidelity, dissent, change of opinion, retraction,
doubt,
skepticism,
scepticism, misgiving,
demure, distrust, mistrust,
cynicism, misdoubt, suspicion, jealousy,
scruple,
qualm, onus probandi,
incredibility,
incredibleness,
incredulity, doubter,
skeptic,
cynic, unbeliever
V. disbelieve, discredit, not believe, misbelieve, refuse to admit, refuse to believe,
doubt, be doubtful, doubt the truth of, be skeptical as to, diffide|, distrust, mistrust,
suspect, smoke,
scent, smell a rat, have doubts, harbor doubts, entertain doubts, suspicions, have one's doubts,
demure, stick at,
pause,
hesitate,
scruple, stop to consider, waver, hang in suspense, hang in doubt, throw doubt upon, raise a question, bring in, call in question, question,
challenge, dispute, deny,
cavil, cause a doubt, raise a doubt, start a doubt, suggest a doubt, awake a doubt, make suspicion, ergotize,
startle,
stagger, shake one's faith, shake one's belief, stagger one's faith, stagger one's belief
Adj. unbelieving,
skeptical,
sceptical, incredulous as to, skeptical as to, distrustful as to, shy as to, suspicious of, doubting, doubtful, disputable, unworthy of, undeserving of belief, questionable,
suspect,
suspicious, open to suspicion, open to doubt,
staggering, hard to believe,
incredible, unbelievable, not to be believed, inconceivable, impossible, fallible,
undemonstrable,
controvertible Adv. cum grano salis, with grains of allowance
Phr. fronti nulla fides, nimium ne crede colori, "timeo danaos et dona ferentes", beware of greeks bearing gifts, credat judaeus apella, let those believe who may, ad tristem partem stenua est suspicio
N. irreligion, indevotion, # godlessness,
ungodliness,
laxity,
quietism,
skepticism,
doubt, unbelief, disbelief,
incredulity,
incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief,
pyrrhonism,
bout,
agnosticism,
atheism,
deism,
hylotheism,
materialism,
positivism,
nihilism,
infidelity,
freethinking,
antichristianity,
rationalism,
neology,
atheist,
skeptic, unbeliever,
deist,
infidel,
pyrrhonist,
giaour, heathen,
alien,
gentile,
nazarene, espri fort,
freethinker,
latitudinarian,
rationalist,
materialist,
positivist,
nihilist,
agnostic,
somatist, theophobist
V. be irreligious, disbelieve, lack faith,
doubt, question,
dechristianize Adj. irreligious,
indevout,
undevout,
devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy,
unsanctified,
unhallowed,
atheistic, without god,
skeptical,
freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted,
incredulous, faithless, lacking faith,
deistical, unchristian,
antichristian, worldly,
mundane, earthly,
carnal, worldly &c. minded
