GRGR: Dark words (7 parts)

[Glenn Scheper]

Happy turkey day! I leave you with this...

[dictionary.com's] Word of the Day for Wednesday November 23, 2005

   crepuscular \krih-PUS-kyuh-luhr\, adjective:
   1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling twilight; dim.
   2. (Zoology) Appearing or active at twilight.

   Crepuscular  comes  from  Latin  crepusculum, "twilight," from
   creper, "dark, obscure."


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Main Entry:   dark 
Part of Speech:   adjective 1 
Definition:   not light 
Synonyms:   aphotic, atramentous, black, blackish, caliginous, clouded, cloudy, crepuscular, darkened, dim, dingy, drab, dull, dun, dusk, duskish, dusky, faint, foggy, gloomy, grimy, ill-lighted, indistinct, inky, lightless, lurid, misty, murky, nebulous, obscure, opaque, overcast, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, shaded, shadowy, shady, somber, sooty, stygian, sunless, tenebrous, unlighted, unlit, vague 
Antonyms:   bright, illuminated, light, shining, sunny 

Main Entry:   dark 
Part of Speech:   adjective 2 
Definition:   shaded 
Synonyms:   adumbral, bistered, black, brunet, brunette, colored, dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, dusky, ebony, Negro, Negroid, nonwhite, sable, swart, swarthy, tan 
Antonyms:   bright, light, white 

Main Entry:   dark 
Part of Speech:   adjective 3 
Definition:   secret 
Synonyms:   abstruse, anagogic, arcane, cabalistic, complicated, concealed, cryptic, deep, Delphian, enigmatic, esoteric, hidden, intricate, knotty, mysterious, mystic, mystical, mystifying, obscure, occult, puzzling, recondite 
Antonyms:   apparent, clear, evident, lucid, plain, visible 

Main Entry:   dark 
Part of Speech:   adjective 4 
Definition:   hopeless 
Synonyms:   bleak, cheerless, dismal, doleful, drab, foreboding, gloomy, grim, joyless, morbid, morose, mournful, ominous, somber, sombre, unpropitious 
Antonyms:   cheerful, encouraging, hopeful, joyful 

Main Entry:   dark 
Part of Speech:   adjective 5 
Definition:   evil 
Synonyms:   atrocious, bad, corrupt, damnable, foul, hellish, horrible, immoral, infernal, nefarious, satanic, sinful, sinister, vile, wicked 
Antonyms:   benevolent, good, moral, virtuous 

Main Entry:   dark 
Part of Speech:   adjective 6 
Definition:   ignorant 
Synonyms:   benighted, uncultivated, unenlightened, unread 
Antonyms:   aware, cultivated, enlightened, knowledgeable, versed 

Main Entry:   dark 
Part of Speech:   noun 1 
Definition:   night 
Synonyms:   caliginosity, darkness, dimness, dusk, duskiness, evening, gloom, midnight, murk, murkiness, night, nightfall, nighttime, nigritude, obscurity, opacity, semi-darkness, shade, shadows, twilight, witching hour 
Antonyms:   day, daylight, daytime 

Main Entry:   dark 
Part of Speech:   noun 2 
Definition:   ignorance 
Synonyms:   concealment, denseness, idiocy, inscrutability, mystery, seclusion, secrecy 
Antonyms:   comprehension, knowledge 

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Glenn Scheper
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