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Meaning darkness meaning

What does darkness mean?

Definitions in simple English

darkness Noun

— The state of being dark; no light. — Gloom. — The product of being dark.

darkness

— noun (= dark) absence of light or illumination — noun an unilluminated area he moved off into the darkness — noun absence of moral or spiritual values the powers of darkness — noun (= dark) an unenlightened state he was in the dark concerning their intentions his lectures dispelled the darkness — noun a swarthy complexion — noun having a dark or somber color

Synonyms darkness synonyms

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darkness English » English

dark gloom night obscurity blackness dimness murk dusk shadow twilight shade duskiness swarthiness shadiness opacity gloominess wickedness shadows night-time murkiness iniquity haze gloomy evening dullness vagueness umbra total darkness the dark silence shady shadowy shades pitch-black pitch black penumbra overcast opening opacity darkness obscureness obscure nighttime nightfall night-fall murky mourn mist mirky mirk midnight

Topics darkness topics

What do people use darkness to talk about?

States Quality Light

Dark

What words refer to a place becoming dark?

get dark darken the light fades dim (v) fall go dark be plunged into darkness
What words refer to darkness?

darkness the dark gloom

Examples darkness examples

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Simple sentences

I am frightened of walking in the darkness.

We need someone to lead us out of the darkness.

Clarie is afraid of spiders, darkness and flying.

Let's not the darkness win.

The darkness surprised the hikers in the forest.

I do not expect the end of the world, but the end of darkness.

We advanced under cover of darkness.

Our eyes take time to adjust to the darkness.

Darkness is the absence of light.

We saw a dim light in the darkness.

The robber emerged from the darkness.

The light penetrates the darkness.

He felt his way through the darkness.

He escaped under cover of the darkness.

They had a narrow escape under cover of darkness.

She has a terror of darkness.

She managed to run away under cover of darkness.

Can you see in the darkness of the night?

I struck a match in the darkness.

The Earth covers itself in darkness, but people are not afraid of the night.

The darkness has not overcome it.

Darkness is falling.

The soldiers advanced on the enemy's position under cover of darkness.

Tom waited a while to let his eyes adjust to the darkness.

He was alone in the darkness - and nobody else.

In the darkness, she could hear him and his guests chatting and laughing.

It was night, and a veil of darkness covered the streets.

Movie subtitles

Time to battle darkness You're not my father!

A day that the darkness swallows the full moon..

The squadron was sneaking up in the darkness.

The portals of darkness are open, and the shadows of the dead hunt over the Earth.

And if thou would summon the Prince of Darkness to aid thee and give thee all the might and glory of the world, go to a crossroad and call on him three times.

The two murder victims make their way. through the storm and darkness to their burial chambers.

And what changes the darkness into light?

The Prince of Darkness is their ally and lends them supernatural power among the living and the dead.

No telling which way he went in this darkness.

Behold, in the City of His Sorrow darkness falls again upon the Mount of Calvary.

Life against death, the strength of a human mind against the powers of darkness.

People don't like it, shooting humans away into hard, frozen darkness.

Slave in the Magic Mirror, come from the farthest space. Through wind and darkness, I summon thee.

These parts are foreign to us and covered with darkness.

There are people who only see the light and darkness is alien to them.

I want to crawl into its dark light, dive into its shining darkness!

You only saw the darkness, the shadows, danger and sin.

In the darkness, she can't see anything.

A lover of darkness, it burrows under stones to escape the glare of the sun.

So far, he's been kept in complete darkness.

The village will be in darkness and the pickings will be easy.

The room was in semi-darkness and as I shut the door and turned from it..

Through wind and darkness, I summon thee.

I could not see well in semi-darkness, but he had a moustache and a beard.

Through wind and darkness, I summon thee. Speak!

And then this heroic boy actually went back into that awful darkness and somehow, some way, brought our Becky out to safety.

Suddenly, the orchestra bursts into a brilliant finale in which the hours of darkness are overcome by the hours of light.

Under his spell, they dance furiously until the coming of dawn and the sounds of church bells send the infernal army slinking back into their abodes of darkness.

The entire hotel's in darkness.

We are coming out of the darkness into a new world, a kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed and their brutality.

You shall be cast out into the utter darkness till you have learned your lesson.

What good in the darkness of a mine?

But darkness will not reign forever on earth. with its anguish.

Think of me being flogged in the darkness.

In the darkness, I saw her white face.

And I made him go down that hall into the darkness.

The darkness in the corners of the room all the little noises.

News and current affairs

But if that same money were used for gas electrification, we could lift almost 100 million people out of darkness and poverty.

By focusing on our climate concerns, we deliberately choose to leave more than three out of four people in darkness and poverty.

Damage to the power supply reduced a third of Manhattan to a pre-modern state of darkness.

With no access to electricity, darkness after sunset is a constant reality for these people.

If we really want a sustainable future for all of humanity and our planet, we shouldn't plunge ourselves back into darkness.

The clean emerald field and freedom of the game must be opposed by the howling mob in the darkness of the stands, burning red torches and jerking between ecstatic joy and hellish misery.

When the Gaza Strip was plunged into darkness last week as a result of the Israeli fuel blockade, many people around the world were surprised.

Today, 1.6 billion people do not have electricity; when the sun sets, their lives are literally beset by darkness.

He linked the various strands of popular myth with historically frightful characters to cement the association of Eastern Europe with obscurantism and darkness in the popular imagination of the West.

Day or night, they live in darkness.

In light - perhaps one should say darkness - of such images, it is sometimes suggested that animal welfare is exclusively a Western concern.

In films like Apocalypse Now and Platoon, shadowy enemies lurk in an hallucinatory darkness of fetid swamps and jungles.

Thus, the electorate also made it clear that it no longer wanted the military involved in domestic politics, rejecting the generals' warnings that the AKP would lead the country into the darkness of theocratic rule.

The article claimed that the change raised costs by forcing British construction workers to perform more of their jobs in relative darkness.

How can a country move so rapidly from darkness to light?

That crackdown continues under cover of darkness.

Indeed, Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky recently criticized the film for its darkness and pessimism.

Light in Congo's Darkness?

Indeed, urging us to sit in darkness will probably only make us realize how unlikely it is that we will ever be convinced to give up the advantages of fossil fuels.

When they died just a day apart this month, the contrast was hard for the global commentariat to resist: Prague's prince of light against Pyongyang's prince of darkness.

Their deaths should challenge us to make sure that Paris, the city of light, will help to banish the darkness that threatens to overwhelm the century ahead.

Just the unbroken line of people, holding hands and passing silently in the white darkness, the line looping back and forth outside the forbidding gates.

Three forces of darkness are apparent.

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