Dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades
ETYM AS. bealoful. Related to Bale misery.
1. Deadly or sinister; SYN. baneful.
2. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; SYN. forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening, ugly.
1. Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture; SYN. dark.
2. Overtaken by night or darkness; SYN. nighted.
overtaken by night; ignorant.
ETYM Old Eng. blac, bleyke, bleche, AS. blâc, blec, pale, wan; akin to Icel. bleikr, Swed. blek, Dan. bleg, OS. blaek, Dutch bleek, Old High Germ. pleih, German bleich; Skr. bhrâj to shine, and Eng. flame.
Unpleasantly cold and damp; SYN. cutting, raw.
ETYM Latin caliginosus; cf. French caligineux.
Dark and misty and gloomy.
Misty; dark; dim; obscure.
ETYM Old Eng. dark, derk, deork, as. dearc, deorc; cf. Gael. and Irish dorch, dorcha, dark, black, dusky.
1. (Used of color) Having a dark hue.
2. (Used of hair or skin or eyes) Brownish or black.
3. Devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness; shadowed or black or somber-colored.
4. Marked by difficulty of style or expression; SYN. obscure.
5. Not giving performances; closed.
6. Secret.
7. Showing a brooding ill humor; SYN. dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen.
Gloomily somber; dark
Suggestive of doom; doomful
ETYM AS. dunn, of Celtic origin; cf. W. dwn, Irish and Gael. donn.
(Homonym: done).
Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color.
ETYM Old Eng. dusc, dosc, deosc; cf. dial. Swed. duska to drizzle, dusk a slight shower.
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
Lighted by or as if by twilight; - Henry Fielding; SYN. twilight, twilit.
Characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; SYN. grim.
ETYM Latin luridus.
1. Ghastly pale.
2. Glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; SYN. shocking.
3. Horrible in fierceness or savagery.
4. Shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke.
Red-yellow; yellow-brown.
ETYM Latin morbidus, from morbus disease; prob. akin to mori to die: cf. French morbide, Italian morbido. Related to Mortal.
Medicine, unhealthy; diseased.
Suggesting an unhealthy mental state.
1. Expressing sorrow; SYN. plaintive.
2. Full of sorrow; sad
3. Causing sorrow or melancholy; gloomy
So shaded as to be dark or gloomy; SYN. mirky.
1. Not drawing attention; SYN. unnoticeable.
2. Not famous or acclaimed; SYN. unknown, unsung.
ETYM Latin occultus, p. p. of occulere to cover up, hide; ob (see Ob-) + a root prob.akin to Eng. hell: cf. French occulte.
1. Hidden from the eye or the understanding; secret; concealed; mysterious.
2. Related to the occult sciences, such as alchemy.
3. Mysterious; hidden; magical; supernatural.
1. Filled with shade; SYN. shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous.
2. Suspicious; not trustworthy.
ETYM Accented on the middle syllable by the older poets, as Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden.
(Heraldry) On or starting from the wearer's left.
Of or on the left side of a heraldic shield.
1. So shaded as to be dark and gloomy
2. Of a serious mien; grave; of a dismal or depressing character; melancholy; conveying gloomy suggestions or ideas
3. Of a dull or heavy cast or shade; dark colored