DARKENING
Dictionary entry overview: What does darkening mean?
• DARKENING (noun)
The noun DARKENING has 1 sense:
1. changing to a darker color
Familiarity information: DARKENING used as a noun is very rare.
• DARKENING (adjective)
The adjective DARKENING has 2 senses:
1. becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over
2. characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom
Familiarity information: DARKENING used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DARKENING (noun)
Meaning:
Changing to a darker color
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
blackening; darkening
Hypernyms ("darkening" is a kind of...):
change of color (an act that changes the light that something reflects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "darkening"):
obfuscation (darkening or obscuring the sight of something)
• DARKENING (adjective)
Meaning:
Becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over
Context example:
the darkening sky
Similar:
dark (devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black)
Meaning:
Characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom
Synonyms:
gloomy; darkening; grim
Context examples:
gloomy at the thought of what he had to face / gloomy predictions / a gloomy silence / took a grim view of the economy / the darkening mood
Similar:
hopeless (without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success)
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