darkness
darkness is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 6 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x.
- 2.3. A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity. Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. John. iii.
- 3.Pursue these sons of darkness: drive them out From all heaven's bounds. Milton.
- 4.Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion.
- 5.A state of distress or trouble. A day of clouds and of thick darkness. Joel. ii.
- 6.Prince of darkness, the Devil; Satan. "In the power of the Prince of darkness." Locke. Darkness arises from a total, and dimness from a partial, want of light. A thing is obscure when so overclouded or covered as not to be easily perceived. As tha shade or obscurity increases, it deepens into gloom. What is dark is hidden from view; what is obscure is difficult to perceive or penetrate; the eye becomes dim with age; an impending storm fills the atmosphere with gloom. When taken figuratively, these words have a like use; as, the darkness of ignorance; dimness of discernment; obscurity of reasoning; gloom of superstition.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abode
- ambiguity
- apotheosis
- atramentous
- beatific
- black
- blackamoor
- blacken
- blackness
- blessed
- bliss
- blot
- blotch
- buck
- call
- celestial
- charcoal
- chiaroscuro
- coal
- coal-black
- color
- coon
- crabbed
- crow
- dark
- darken
- deification
- denigrate
- derogatory
- dingy
- dusky
- dye
- ebon
- ebony
- elysian
- eternal
- everlasting
- for
- from
- fuliginous
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is darkness.
- What is 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x called?
- What is 3. A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity. Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. John. iii called?
- What is pursue these sons of darkness: drive them out From all heaven's bounds. Milton called?
- What is want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion called?
- What is a state of distress or trouble. A day of clouds and of thick darkness. Joel. ii called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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