Synonyms of darkened

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adjective

as in dark

being without light or without much light

wanting to surprise her, we waited in the darkened room for her to get home before calling out "happy birthday"

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dark
• murky
• black
• dimmed
• obscured
• dim
• dusky
• sombre
• lightless
• unlit
• dusk
• somber
• gloomy
• darkling
• obscure
• darkish
• pitch-black
• pitch-dark
• darksome
• tenebrous
• stygian
• pitchy
• caliginous
• rayless
• twilit
• grey
• dulled
• gray
• crepuscular
• tenebrific
• starless
• moonless
• misty
• shadowy
• clouded
• lackluster
• pale
• shady
• cloudy
• dull
• foggy
• leaden
• sunless
• smoggy
• fuliginous
• befogged
• shadowlike
• beclouded
• soupy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• light
• illuminated
• lighted
• bright
• luminous
• lit
• shining
• brilliant
• illumined
• brightened
• sparkling
• radiant
• lucent
• lucid
• incandescent
• glaring
• resplendent
• lightsome
• glowing
• alight
• effulgent
• lambent
• beaming
• beamy
• shiny
• glossy
• lustrous
• aglitter
• highlighted
• spotlit
• agleam
• sunlit
• moonlit
• ablaze
• relucent
• ultrabright
• spotlighted
• moony
• starlit
• floodlit
• floodlighted

darkened

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verb

past tense of darken

1

as in frowned

to take on a gloomy or forbidding look

his face slowly darkened as we told him the sad news

Synonyms & Similar Words

• frowned
• stared
• scowled
• glowered
• gloomed
• raged
• lowered
• brooded
• loured
• pouted
• angered
• glared
• steamed
• sulked
• threatened
• bristled
• stormed
• petted
• intimidated
• menaced
• fumed
• moped

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• brightened
• lightened
• cheered (up)
• perked (up)

2

as in faded

to grow dark

the sky darkened as a storm moved in

Synonyms & Similar Words

• faded
• blackened
• dimmed
• closed in
• dusked
• blacked out
• waned
• gloomed
• lowered
• loured

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lighted
• lit
• brightened
• lightened
• dawned
• shone
• glowed
• beamed
• radiated
• shined

3

as in obscured

to make dark, dim, or indistinct

years of accumulated grime have darkened the painting until it can barely be seen

Synonyms & Similar Words

• obscured
• blurred
• blackened
• clouded
• dimmed
• overshadowed
• shadowed
• shrouded
• fogged
• misted
• overcast
• beclouded
• hazed
• shaded
• concealed
• bleared
• overclouded
• bedimmed
• hid
• covered
• obliterated
• dislimned
• eclipsed
• fuzzed (up)
• befogged
• masked
• adumbrated
• curtained
• blotted out
• camouflaged
• screened
• cloaked
• veiled
• disguised

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• brightened
• illuminated
• lit (up)
• lighted (up)
• lightened
• exposed
• revealed
• illumined
• uncovered
• unveiled

4

as in marred

to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable

the scandal darkened his otherwise sterling reputation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• marred
• stained
• tainted
• poisoned
• spoiled
• touched
• tarnished
• blackened
• distorted
• degraded
• lowered
• spoilt
• vitiated
• smeared
• discredited
• blurred
• blemished
• polluted
• corrupted
• clouded
• discolored
• smudged
• sullied
• soiled
• disgraced
• tarred
• shamed
• dirtied
• begrimed
• colored
• sunk
• dishonored
• debased
• twisted
• besmirched
• perverted
• sank
• besmeared
• smutted
• subverted
• debauched
• smirched
• demeaned
• depraved
• cheapened
• demoralized
• fouled
• abased
• bastardized

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• purified
• cleansed
• elevated
• magnified
• uplifted
• dignified
• enshrined
• glorified
• hallowed
• ennobled