duskiness

  • 41twilight — 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,… …

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  • 42salu — 1. adj dark, dusky; 2. f ( e/ a) darkness, duskiness; 3. nom/acc pl of sæl …

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  • 43dimness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Shadowiness Nouns dimness, obscurity, shadow, shade; darkness, opacity; partial darkness, partial shadow, partial eclipse; cloudiness; dusk, gloaming, twilight, evening, shades of evening; moonlight,… …

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  • 44invisibility — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of visibility Nouns invisibility; nonappearance, imperceptibility, indistinctness; mystery, delitescence (see concealment). See latency, transparency. Verbs lurk, escape notice, blush unseen;… …

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  • 45night — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. darkness, evening, nightfall, midnight, nighttime, eventide. Ant., day[time]. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The diurnal dark period] Syn. evening, from dusk to dawn, nightfall, twilight, eventide, nighttime …

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  • 46shade — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. shadiness, shadow, umbrage, gloom, gloaming, dimness, darkness; obscurity; duskiness; shading, tone; curtain, veil, film, haziness, haze, misti[ness], cloudiness; color, hue, tint; nuance, degree;… …

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  • 47blackness — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. gloom, duskiness, murkiness, negritude; see darkness 1 …

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  • 48murkiness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Absence or deficiency of light: dark, darkness, dimness, duskiness, obscureness, obscurity. See LIGHT …

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  • 49obscureness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Absence or deficiency of light: dark, darkness, dimness, duskiness, murkiness, obscurity. See LIGHT. 2. The quality or state of being ambiguous: ambiguity, ambiguousness, cloudiness, equivocalness, indefiniteness,… …

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  • 50dusky — adjective (duskier, duskiest) darkish in colour. ↘dated or literary (of a person) dark skinned or black: a dusky maiden. Derivatives duskily adverb duskiness noun …

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