embrown
darken
embrowned
endarken
sombre
shadow
bedarken
miscolour
dark
murk
muddy
bedim
murken
dim
dusk
fuligin
inturbidate
obfuscate
gloom
behue
darkening
tint
obumbrate
value
nigrify
coloristically
dusky-colored
complexion
dark-colored
infuscate
dark-coloured
shaded
dusky-coloured
greyen
darkle
brighten
deepen
swarten
low-key
tinge
brunette
unlightened
dimmed
cloud
encolour
fuscous
blackening
gray
pheo-
grey
darkness
crimsonness
alighten
antidarkening
nebulation
bottle green
sky-blue pink
in color
light
deluminate
overdarken
color
illumine
Yale blue
burnt
decolorate
tawny
darkened
dun
sad
tone
sadden
languid
lowlight
lighten
colorate
twilight
tincture
dusky
illuminable
complement
twilit
embrowned
dusk
darkening
dusky-colored
dark-colored
dark-coloured
shaded
dusky-coloured
low-key
brunette
dim
unlightened
dimmed
fuscous
sombre
muddy
antidarkening
color
burnt
darkened
sad
languid
twilight
dusky
illuminable
twilit
coloristically
fuligin
value
dusk
tinge
darkening
blackening
darkness
crimsonness
nebulation
bottle green
sky-blue pink
Yale blue
tone
complement
embrown
darken
endarken
sombre
shadow
bedarken
miscolour
dark
murk
muddy
bedim
murken
dim
inturbidate
obfuscate
gloom
behue
tint
obumbrate
nigrify
complexion
infuscate
greyen
darkle
brighten
deepen
swarten
cloud
encolour
gray
grey
alighten
light
deluminate
overdarken
illumine
decolorate
tawny
dun
sadden
lowlight
lighten
colorate
tincture
verb
- To make dark or darker in colour.
- To become dark or darker in colour.
- To become dark or darker (having less light).
- To make dark or darker by reducing light.
- To become gloomy, darker in mood.
- To render gloomy, darker in mood.
- To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
- To blind, impair the eyesight.
- To be blinded, lose one’s eyesight.
- To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
- To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud).
verb
- To shade, cloud, or darken.
- To accompany (a professional) during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to take up.
- To make (an identifier, usually a variable) inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.
- To hide; to conceal.
- To represent faintly and imperfectly.
- To block light or radio transmission from.
- To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
- To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).
noun
- A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
- A small degree; a shade.
- An influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one.
- Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom; obscurity.
- That which looms as though a shadow.
- A area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight).
- One who secretly or furtively follows another.
- An inseparable companion.
- A drop shadow effect applied to lettering in word processors etc.
- A spirit; a ghost; a shade.
- An unconscious aspect of the personality.
- A trainee, assigned to work with an experienced officer.
- An imperfect and faint representation.
adj
verb
- To make dark, darken; to obscure.
- To grow or become dark, darken.
- To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
noun
- A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
- Ignorance.
- Nightfall.
- A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
adj
- Off the air; not transmitting.
- Ambiguously or unclearly expressed: enigmatic, esoteric, mysterious, obscure, undefined.
- Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
- With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
- Deprived of sight; blind.
- Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension: caliginous, darkling, dim, gloomy, lightless, sombre.
- Having racing capability not widely known.
- Marked by or conducted with secrecy: hidden, secret; clandestine, surreptitious.
- Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
- Lacking progress in science or the arts.
- Extinguished.
- Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
- Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
verb
- To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
- To become contaminated or impure.
- To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
- To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
- To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
- Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
- To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
- To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
- To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
- Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
adj
- Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
- Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
- Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
- Dirty, filthy.
- Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
- Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
- Of an image: blurry or dim.
- Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.
- Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
- Soiled with feces.
- Of light: cloudy, opaque.
- Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
- Not clear.
noun
verb
noun
- A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
- A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
- A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.
- A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
- A slight coloring.
abbrev
noun
- The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
- The degree of importance given to something.
- The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
- The relative duration of a musical note.
- That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
- The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
- The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
- Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
- Precise meaning; import.
verb
verb
- To make darker or more intense; to darken
- To make deep or deeper
- To make more sound or heavy.
- To become lower in tone
- To become deeper
- To become more intimate.
- To make lower in tone
- To become darker or more intense
- To become more thorough or extensive.
- To make more thorough or extensive.
- To become more sound or heavy.
- To make more intimate.
- To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree
noun
- The degree of vividness of a colour; hue, shade, tint.
- A small added amount of colour; (by extension) a small added amount of some other thing.
verb
- To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing.
- To change slightly in shade due to the addition of colour; (by extension) to change slightly in quality due to the addition of some other thing.
- To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing.
verb
- To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
- To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
- To make less acute or perceptive.
- To make gloomy or sullen.
- To make obscure.
- To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
- To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
- To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
- Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
noun
- Crystal methamphetamine.
- A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
- The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
- A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
- A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings)
- Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
- A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- Anything unsubstantial.
- A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
- A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
- Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
- An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
verb
verb
noun
- a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
- clothing that is a grey color
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
- horse of a light gray or whitish color
- the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad
adj
prefix
verb
adj
- of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
- showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
- used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
- intermediate in character or position
noun
verb
- To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.
- To start (a fire).
- To become ignited; to take fire.
- To set fire to; to set burning.
- To make (a bonus) available to be collected by hitting a target, and thus light up the feature light corresponding to that bonus to indicate its availability.
- To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
- To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice
- To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter
- To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
- To find by chance.
adj
- Easy to endure or perform.
- Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
- Riding high because of no cargo; by extension, pertaining to a ship which is light.
- Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
- Having little weight as compared with bulk; of little density or specific gravity.
- Without any piece of equipment attached or attached only to a caboose.
- Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
- With low viscosity.
- Easily interrupted by stimulation.
- Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
- Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.
- Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard, or proper amount; clipped or diminished.
- Lightly built; typically designed for speed or small loads.
- Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
- Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
- Served with extra milk or cream.
- Slight, not forceful or intense; small in amount or intensity.
- Having little or relatively little actual weight; not cumbrous or unwieldy.
- Gentle; having little force or momentum.
- Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.
- Not heavy or soggy; spongy; well raised.
- Free from burden or impediment; unencumbered.
noun
- A low-alcohol lager.
- A source of illumination.
- A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; opposed to shade.
- A window in architecture, carriage design, or motor car design: either the opening itself or the window pane of glass that fills it, if any.
- A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
- A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
- A cigarette lighter.
- The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
- Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
- Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
- The brightness of the eye or eyes.
- A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler who is receiving instructions.
- A flame or something used to create fire.
- A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
- See lights (“lungs”).
- A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
- Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation (light) in the wavelength range of about 400 to 750 nanometers. Nearby shorter and longer wavelength ranges, although not visible, are commonly called ultraviolet and infrared light.
- The power of perception by vision.
adv
adj
verb
- To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
- To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
- To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
- To give something color.
- To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
- To become red through increased blood flow.
- To affect without completely changing.
noun
- The flag of a nation or team.
- These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).
- A paint.
- An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
- The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
- A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
- The spectral composition of visible light.
- A standard or banner.
- A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
- Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
- Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
- Gang insignia.
- Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
- A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
- Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
- The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
- A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
- Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
- An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
- A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
- Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
verb
- To cause (something) to glow or shine with light.
- To become bright; to light up.
- To cause (the eyes) to see.
- To enlighten intellectually.
- To enlighten (someone) spiritually; to induce (someone) to adopt, or believe in the truth of, a religion, religious tenet, etc.
- To enlighten (someone) intellectually.
- To decorate (a page of a manuscript book) with ornamental designs.
- To shine light on (something).
- To cause (a person or their face) to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
- Of a person or their face: to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
noun
verb
- To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
- To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
noun
- Synonym of tenné (“a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown”)
- In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.
- Tawny owl.
- Tawny frogmouth.
- The common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
- A light brown to brownish orange colour.
- Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name).
adj
noun
- The shade or quality of a colour.
- The quality of being respectable or admirable.
- The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
- The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
- The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
- A specific pitch.
- (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
- The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
- a gun
- The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
- The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
- (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
- Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
- The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.).
verb
- to change the colour of
- to give a particular tone to
- to utter with an affected tone.
- to make (something) firmer
pron
adj
- Of a colour: not bright; dull, muted.
- Of an idea, writing, etc.: dull, uninteresting.
- Of a period of time: characterized by lack of activity; pleasant and relaxed; unstressful.
- Of a person or animal, or their body functions: flagging from weakness, or inactive or weak, especially due to illness or tiredness; faint, listless.
- Of a person or their actions, character, etc.: lacking drive, emotion, or enthusiasm; apathetic, listless, spiritless, unenthusiastic.
- Of a person or their movement: showing a dislike for physical effort; leisurely, unhurried.
- Of a thing: lacking energy, liveliness, or strength; inactive, slow-moving, weak.
noun
verb
- To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate.
- To become light or lighter in weight.
- To become brighter or clearer; to brighten.
- To make less serious or more cheerful.
- To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.
- To descend; to light.
- To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.
- To alleviate; to reduce the burden of.
- To become less serious or more cheerful.
- To make light or lighter in weight.
verb
- To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
- Followed by with: to add to or impregnate (something) with (a slight amount of) an abstract or (obsolete) physical quality; to imbue, to taint, to tinge.
- To have a taint or tinge of some quality.
- To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent to produce a medicinal tincture.
noun
- A colour or tint, especially if produced by a pigment or something which stains; a tinge.
- A (small) alcoholic drink.
- The part of a substance thought to be essential, finer, and/or more volatile, which could be extracted in a solution; also, the process of obtaining this.
- An immaterial substance or spiritual principle which was thought capable of being instilled into physical things; also, the essence or spirit of something.
- A slight addition of a thing to something else; a shade, a touch, a trace.
- A hue or pattern used in the depiction of a coat of arms; namely, a colour, fur, or metal.
- A medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent.
- A material essence thought to be capable of extraction from a substance.
noun
- The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
- Fullness (of the moon).
- A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
- An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
- Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.
- A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
- A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
- A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
- One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
- Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement).
- The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
- The whole working force of a vessel.
- An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
- The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
- The numeric complement of a number.
- Synonym of alexin
- An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
- The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
verb
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