caliginous

ca·lig·i·nous

adjective \kə-ˈli-jə-nəs\

Definition of CALIGINOUS

: misty, dark <a caliginous atmosphere>

Examples of CALIGINOUS

1. <what horrors were committed within the caliginous confinements of that torture chamber>

Origin of CALIGINOUS

Middle French or Latin; Middle French caligineux, from Latin caliginosus, from caligin-, caligo darkness

First Known Use: 1548

Related to CALIGINOUS

Synonyms

black, dark, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dim, dimmed, dusk, dusky, gloomy, lightless, murky, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, somber (or sombre), stygian, tenebrific, tenebrous, unlit

Antonyms

bright, brightened, brilliant, illuminated, illumined, light, lit (or lighted), lightsome, lucent, lucid, luminous

Related Words

crepuscular, twilit; moonless, starless, sunless; cloudy, dull, dulled, lackluster; shadowlike, shadowy, shady; gray (also grey), leaden, pale; beclouded, befogged, clouded, foggy, fuliginous, misty, smoggy, soupy

Near Antonyms

ablaze, agleam, aglitter, alight, beaming, beamy, effulgent, glaring, glowing, incandescent, lambent, radiant, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling; ultrabright; glossy, lustrous, shiny; floodlit (also floodlighted), highlighted, spotlighted (or spotlit); moonlit, moony, starlit, sunlit

Rhymes with CALIGINOUS

fuliginous, indigenous, polygynous, serpiginous, terrigenous, vertiginous