darkness

Significat (Anglès)

1. (uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.
2. (uncountable) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
3. (countable, uncountable) Any space that such colour pervades.
4. (uncountable) Gloom; gloominess; depression.
5. (countable) The product of being dark.
6. (uncountable) Lack of understanding or compassion; spiritual or mental blindness.
7. (uncountable) Secrecy; concealment.
8. (uncountable) Lack of knowledge; obscurity or meaning or intelligibility; the unknown.
9. (uncountable) Nothingness, vanity, emptiness.
10. (uncountable) Hell.

Conceptes

foscor

obscuritat

fosca

malvestat

iniquitat

negror

tenebres

ignorància

tenebra

Sinònims

dark

gloom

night

🌃

obscurity

blackness

dimness

murk

dusk

shadow

shade

twilight

duskiness

opacity

swarthiness

gloominess

shadiness

evening

🌆

gloomy

haze

murkiness

shadows

wickedness

dullness

night-time

iniquity

illumination

indistinctness

invisibility

liver

lose

lour

midnight

mirk

mist

mourn

murky

nightfall

nighttime

obscure

obscureness

opening

overcast

penumbra

pitch black

pitch-black

shades

shadowy

shady

silence

umbra

Traduccions

obscurité

Dunkelheit

oscuridad

oscurità

Finsternis

ténèbres

escuridão

noirceur

buio

duisternis

tinieblas

σκοτάδι

obscuridad

ظلام

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈdɑːknəs/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: derknesse

Heretat de anglès antic: deorcnes

In summary

From Middle English derknesse, from Old English deorcnes; equivalent to dark + -ness.

Frases

Down below in the darkness were hundreds of people , sleeping in peace .