Another word for dark

Cimmerian, abhorrent, Eeyorish, angry, abominable, abstruse, absence of light, darkness, ignorant of, unaware of, and oblivious to are another word for dark. Good and virtuous are the opposites of dark. On this page, find 232 synonyms for dark, parts of speech, and examples of dark sentences.

Dark synonyms

1. black

  • Cimmerian
  • Stygian
  • Tartarean
  • Black
  • Crepuscular
  • Dim
  • Dingy
  • Dusky
  • Gloomy
  • Ill-lit
  • Indistinct
  • Inky
  • Jet black
  • Leaden
  • Moonless
  • Overcast
  • Pitch black
  • Pitch dark
  • Poorly lit
  • Shadowy
  • Shady
  • Starless
  • Sunless
  • Tenebrous
  • Unilluminated
  • Unlighted
  • Unlit
  • Caliginous

2. tragic

  • Abhorrent
  • Abominable
  • Atrocious
  • Awful
  • Calamitous
  • Cataclysmic
  • Catastrophic
  • Devastating
  • Dire
  • Disastrous
  • Dreadful
  • Frightful
  • Ghastly
  • Grisly
  • Gruesome
  • Harrowing
  • Heinous
  • Hideous
  • Horrendous
  • Horrible
  • Horrific
  • Monstrous
  • Nightmarish
  • Ruinous
  • Terrible
  • Tragic
  • Unfortunate
  • Woeful
  • Wretched
  • Direful

3. gloomy

  • Eeyorish
  • Black
  • Bleak
  • Cheerless
  • Cynical
  • Defeatist
  • Dejected
  • Demoralized
  • Depressed
  • Despairing
  • Despondent
  • Dismal
  • Distrustful
  • Doleful
  • Doubting
  • Downbeat
  • Drab
  • Dreary
  • Fatalistic
  • Funereal
  • Gloom-ridden
  • Gloomy
  • Glum
  • Grave
  • Grim
  • Hopeless
  • Joyless
  • Lugubrious
  • Melancholy
  • Morose
  • Mournful
  • Negative
  • Pessimistic
  • Sombre
  • Suspicious
  • Alarmist

3. moody

  • Angry
  • Brooding
  • Dour
  • Forbidding
  • Frowning
  • Glowering
  • Glum
  • Moody
  • Morose
  • Scowling
  • Sulky
  • Sullen
  • Threatening
  • Ominous

4. evil

  • Abominable
  • Atrocious
  • Bad
  • Barbarous
  • Base
  • Bent
  • Blasphemous
  • Contemptible
  • Crooked
  • Dastardly
  • Degenerate
  • Depraved
  • Despicable
  • Detestable
  • Diabolic
  • Diabolical
  • Dirty
  • Discreditable
  • Dishonest
  • Dishonourable
  • Dissolute
  • Egregious
  • Evil
  • Execrable
  • Fiendish
  • Foul
  • Godless
  • Hateful
  • Heinous
  • Horrible
  • Immoral
  • Impious
  • Iniquitous
  • Irreligious
  • Low-down
  • Malfeasant
  • Mean
  • Monstrous
  • Morally wrong
  • Murderous
  • Odious
  • Outrageous
  • Peccable
  • Perverted
  • Profane
  • Reprehensible
  • Reprobate
  • Rotten
  • Sacrilegious
  • Shady
  • Shameful
  • Shocking
  • Sinful
  • Sordid
  • Stinking
  • Ungodly
  • Unholy
  • Unprincipled
  • Unrighteous
  • Unscrupulous
  • Unspeakable
  • Vicious
  • Vile
  • Warped
  • Wicked
  • Wrong
  • Wrongful
  • Flagitious

5. mysterious

  • Abstruse
  • Arcane
  • Clandestine
  • Concealed
  • Covert
  • Cryptic
  • Enigmatic
  • Esoteric
  • Hidden
  • Impenetrable
  • Incomprehensible
  • Inscrutable
  • Mysterious
  • Obscure
  • Opaque
  • Recherché
  • Recondite
  • Secret
  • Unrevealed
  • Veiled
  • Black

5. darkness

  • Absence of light
  • Blackness
  • Darkness
  • Dimness
  • Dullness
  • Dusk
  • Gloaming
  • Gloom
  • Gloominess
  • Murk
  • Murkiness
  • Shade
  • Shadiness
  • Shadow
  • Shadowiness
  • Twilight
  • Tenebrosity

6. night

  • Darkness
  • Evening
  • Hours of darkness
  • Night-time
  • Night
  • Nightfall
  • Twilight
  • Sunset

7. unaware of

  • Ignorant of
  • In ignorance of
  • Oblivious to
  • Unacquainted with
  • Unaware of
  • Unconversant with
  • Unenlightened about
  • Uninformed about
  • Nescient of

Dark sentences

The room was completely dark.

She feared the dark alley.

The sky turned dark quickly.

His dark eyes reflected sadness.

Dark parts of speech

Adjective