Synonyms of caliginous

caliginous

adjective

kə-ˈli-jə-nəs 

as in darkened

being without light or without much light

without a flashlight, there was no way to tell what kind of creatures lurked in the caliginous cave

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of caliginous

The night is misty and cold—caliginous. —Jason Kehe, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023