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. dimness, darkness, paleness &c. # (light color) 429, half light, demi-jour, partial shadow, partial eclipse, shadow of a shade,
glimmer, gliming,
nebulosity, cloud,
eclipse,
aurora,
dusk,
twilight, shades of evening,
crepuscule, cockshut time|, break of day,
daybreak,
dawn,
moonlight,
moonbeam,
moonglade,
moonshine,
starlight, owl's light,
candlelight,
rushlight, firelight, farthing candle
V. be dim, grow dim,
flicker,
twinkle,
glimmer,
loom, lower,
fade, pale, pale its ineffectual fire, render dim,
dim,
bedim,
obscure,
darken, tone down
Adj. dim, dull,
lackluster,
dingy,
darkish, shorn of its beams, dark 421,
faint, shadowed forth,
glassy,
cloudy,
misty,
blear, muggy|,
fuliginous,
nebulous,
nebular, obnubilated, overcast,
crepuscular,
muddy,
lurid,
leaden,
dun,
dirty,
looming, pale, confused
N. blackness, darkness &c. (want of light), 421, swartliness,
lividity, dark color, tone, color,
chiaroscuro,
nigrification,
infuscation,
jet, ink,
ebony, coal pitch,
soot, charcoal,
sloe,
smut,
raven,
crow, negro,
blackamoor, man of color,
nigger, darkie,
ethiop, black,
buck,
nigger,
coon,
sambo,
lampblack, ivory black, blueblack, writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, indian ink, india ink
V. be black, render -black,
blacken,
infuscate,
denigrate,
blot,
blotch,
smutch,
smirch,
darken, black,
sable,
swarthy,
somber, dark,
inky,
ebony,
ebon,
atramentous,
jetty,
coal-black,
jet-black,
fuliginous,
pitchy,
sooty,
swart,
dusky,
dingy,
murky,
ethiopic, low-toned, low in tone, of the deepest dye, black as jet, black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as november, black as thunder, black as midnight,
nocturnal,
nigrescent, gray,
obscure Adv. in mourning
V. be invisible, be hidden,
lurk, escape notice, render invisible,
conceal, put out of sight, not see, lose sight of
Adj. invisible,
imperceptible,
undiscernible,
indiscernible, unapparent, non-apparent, out of sight, not in sight, a perte de vue, behind the scenes, behind the curtain, viewless, sightless, inconspicuous, unconspicuous, unseen &c. (see see ),
covert,
eclipsed, under an eclipse,
dim,
mysterious, dark,
obscure, confused, indistinct, indistinguishable,
shadowy, indefinite, undefined, ill-defined, ill-marked,
blurred,
fuzzy, out of focus,
misty,
delitescent, hidden, obscured, covered, veiled (concealed) 528
Phr. "full many a flower is born to blush unseen"
N. unintelligibility,
incomprehensibility,
imperspicuity,
inconceivableness, vagueness, obscurity,
ambiguity, doubtful meaning, uncertainty,
perplexity,
spinosity, obscurum per obscurius,
mystification,
latency,
transcendentalism,
paradox,
oxymoron,
riddle,
enigma,
puzzle, diagnus vindice nodus, sealed book,
steganography,
freemasonry, pons asinorum, asses' bridge, high dutch, greek, hebrew,
jargon V. be unintelligible, require explanation, have a doubtful meaning, pass comprehension, render unintelligible,
conceal,
darken,
confuse,
perplex, not understand, lose, lose the clue, miss, not know what to make of, be able to make nothing of, give it up, not be able to account for, not be able to make either head or tail of, be at sea, wonder, see through a glass darkly, not understand one another, play at cross purposes
Adj. unintelligible, unaccountable,
undecipherable, undiscoverable, unknowable,
unfathomable,
incognizable,
inexplicable,
inscrutable,
inapprehensible,
incomprehensible,
insolvable, insoluble,
impenetrable,
illegible, as greek to one, unexplained,
paradoxical,
enigmatic,
enigmatical, puzzling (secret) 533,
indecipherable,
obscure, dark,
muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist,
dim,
nebulous, shrouded in mystery,
opaque, dense,
undiscernible,
misty, hidden,
latent, indefinite,
garbled,
perplexed, undetermined, vague, loose,
ambiguous,
mysterious,
mystic,
mystical,
acroamatic,
acroamatical,
metempirical,
transcendental,
occult,
recondite,
abstruse,
crabbed, inconceivable,
inconceptible, searchless, above comprehension, beyond comprehension, past comprehension, beyond one's depth, unconceived, inexpressible,
undefinable,
incommunicable, unpredictable,
unforeseeable Phr. it's greek to me
N. obscurity,
involution, hard words,
ambiguity, unintelligibleness, vagueness, inexactness, what d'ye call 'em, darkness of meaning
Adj. obscure,
crabbed, involved, confused
N. disrepute, discredit, ill repute, bad repute, bad name, bad odor, bad favor, ill name, ill odor, ill favor,
disapprobation, ingloriousness,
derogation,
abasement,
debasement,
abjectness,
degradation,
dedecoration, a long farewell to all my greatness,
odium,
obloquy,
opprobrium,
ignominy, dishonor, disgrace, shame,
humiliation,
scandal, baseness,
vileness,
turpitude,
infamy,
tarnish,
taint,
defilement,
pollution,
stain,
blot, spot,
blur,
stigma,
brand, reproach,
imputation,
slur, crying shame, burning shame,
scandalum magnatum, badge of infamy, blot in one's escutcheon, bend sinister, bar sinister, champain, point champain, byword of reproach, ichabod, argumentum ad verecundiam, sense of shame
V. be inglorious, incur disgrace, have a bad name, earn a bad name, put a halter round one's neck, wear a halter round one's neck, disgrace oneself, expose oneself, play second fiddle, lose caste, pale one's ineffectual fire, recede into the shade, fall from one's high estate, keep in the background, be conscious of disgrace, look blue, look foolish, look like a fool, cut a poor figure, cut a sorry figure, laugh on the wrong side of the mouth, make a sorry face, go away with a flea in, one's ear, slink away, cause shame, shame, disgrace, put to shame, dishonor, throw dishonor upon, cast dishonor upon, fling dishonor upon, reflect dishonor upon, be a reproach, to, derogate from,
tarnish,
stain, blot sully,
taint, discredit,
degrade,
debase,
defile,
beggar,
expel, impute shame to,
brand, post,
stigmatize,
vilify,
defame,
slur, cast a slur upon, hold up to shame, send to coventry, tread under foot, trample under foot, show up, drag through the mire, heap dirt upon,
reprehend, bring low, put down,
snub, take down a peg, take down a peg lower, take down a peg or two,
obscure,
eclipse,
outshine, take the shine out of, throw into the shade, cast into the shade, overshadow, leave in the background, put in the background, push into a corner, put one's nose out of joint, put out, put out of countenance,
upset, throw off one's center,
discompose,
disconcert, put to the blush
Adj. disgraced, blown upon, "shorn of its beams", shorn of one's glory, overcome,
downtrodden, loaded with shame, in bad repute, out of repute, out of favor, out of fashion, out of countenance, at a discount, under a cloud, under an eclipse, unable to show one's face, in the shade, in the background, out at elbows, down at the elbows, down in the world, inglorious, nameless,
renownless,
obscure, unknown to fame, unnoticed, unnoted, unhonored,
unglorified, shameful, disgraceful, discreditable,
disreputable,
despicable, questionable, unbecoming, unworthy,
derogatory,
degrading,
humiliating, infra dignitatem,
dedecorous,
scandalous, infamous, too bad, unmentionable,
ribald,
opprobrious,
errant,
shocking,
outrageous,
notorious,
ignominious,
scrubby,
dirty,
abject,
vile,
beggarly,
pitiful, low, mean, shabby base
Adv. to one's shame be it spoken
Int. fie, shame, for shame, proh pudor, o tempora, o mores, ough, sic transit gloria mundi
N. commonalty,
democracy, obscurity, low condition, low life, low society, low company,
bourgeoisie, mass of the people, mass of society, brown jones and robinson, lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders, vulgar herd, common herd, rank and file, hoc genus omne, the many, the general, the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry, king mob,
proletariat, fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed, man in the street,
mob,
rabble, rabble rout,
chaff,
rout,
horde,
canaille, scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society, swinish multitude, foex populi,
trash, profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus,
vermin,
riffraff, ragtag and bobtail, small fry, commoner, one of the people,
democrat,
plebeian, republican,
proletary,
proletaire,
roturier, mr. snooks,
bourgeois, epicier,
philistine,
cockney,
grisette,
demimonde,
peasant,
countryman,
boor,
carle,
churl,
villain,
villein, terrae filius,
serf,
kern,
tyke,
tike,
chuff,
ryot,
fellah,
longshoreman,
swain,
clown, hind,
clod,
clodhopper,
hobnail,
yokel, bog-trotter,
bumpkin,
plowman,
plowboy,
rustic, hayseed*, lunkhead, chaw-bacon*, tiller of the soil, hewers of wood and drawers of water,
groundling,
gaffer,
loon, put,
cub, tony lumpkin,
looby, rube*,
lout,
underling,
gamin, rough, pot-wallopper, slubberdegullion|, vulgar fellow, low fellow,
cad,
curmudgeon,
upstart,
parvenu,
skipjack,
nobody, nobody one knows, hesterni quirites, pessoribus orti, bourgeois gentilhomme, novus homo,
snob,
gent,
mushroom, no one knows who,
adventurer, man of straw,
beggar, gaberlunzie,
muckworm, mudlark, sans culotte,
raff,
tatterdemalion,
caitiff,
ragamuffin,
pariah, outcast of society,
tramp,
vagabond,
bezonian, panhandler*, sundowner, chiffonnier, cinderella, cinderwench,
scrub,
jade,
gossoon,
goth,
vandal,
hottentot, zulu, savage,
barbarian,
yahoo, unlicked cub, rough diamond|, barbarousness,
barbarism, boeotia
V. be ignoble, be nobody
Adj. ignoble, common, mean, low, base,
vile,
sorry,
scrubby,
beggarly, below par, no great shakes, homely,
homespun, vulgar,
low-minded,
snobbish,
plebeian,
proletarian, of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction,
lowborn,
baseborn,
earthborn,
mushroom,
dunghill, risen from the ranks, unknown to fame,
obscure, untitled,
rustic, uncivilized,
loutish,
boorish,
clownish,
churlish,
brutish,
raffish, rude,
unlicked, barbarous,
barbarian,
barbaric,
barbaresque,
cockney, born within sound of bow bells,
underling,
menial,
subaltern Adv. below the salt
Phr. dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet
