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Synonyms & Antonyms of darkening
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causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer
- a darkening sky that seemed to match our downcast spirits
Synonyms for darkening
- black,
- bleak,
- cheerless,
- chill,
- Cimmerian,
- cloudy,
- cold,
- comfortless,
- dark,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- dire,
- disconsolate,
- dismal,
- drear,
- dreary,
- dreich
- [chiefly Scottish],
- elegiac
- (also elegiacal),
- forlorn,
- funereal,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- godforsaken,
- gray
- (also grey),
- lonely,
- lonesome,
- lugubrious,
- miserable,
- morbid,
- morose,
- murky,
- plutonian,
- saturnine,
- sepulchral,
- solemn,
- somber
- (or sombre),
- sullen,
- sunless,
- tenebrific,
- tenebrous,
- wretched
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- blue,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- despondent,
- down,
- droopy,
- hangdog,
- inconsolable,
- low,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- mirthless,
- sad,
- unhappy,
- woebegone,
- woeful
- dim,
- discomfiting,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismaying,
- dispiriting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- upsetting
- dour,
- grim,
- lowering
- (also louring),
- lowery
- (also loury),
- menacing,
- negative,
- oppressive,
- threatening
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darkening
verb
present participle of darken
Synonyms & Antonyms of darkening (Entry 2 of 2)
1
to take on a gloomy or forbidding look
- his face slowly darkened as we told him the sad news
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2
to grow dark
- the sky darkened as a storm moved in
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3
to make dark, dim, or indistinct
- years of accumulated grime have darkened the painting until it can barely be seen
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4
to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable
- the scandal darkened his otherwise sterling reputation
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