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darkeningadjective causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheera darkening sky that seemed to match our downcast spirits black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich(chiefly Scottish), elegiac(also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray(also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber(or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched blue, dejected, depressed, despondent, down, droopy, hangdog, inconsolable, low, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, sad, unhappy, woebegone, woefuldim, discomfiting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, upsettingdesperate, hopeless, pessimisticlamentable, mournful, plaintive, sorrowfulcolorless, drab, dulldour, grim, lowering(also louring), lowery(also loury), menacing, negative, oppressive, threatening bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, cordial, festive, friendly, gay, heartwarming, sunshiny blithe, blithesome, buoyant, gay, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, merry, mirthfulencouraging, hopeful, optimisticlighthearted, lightsome darkeningverbpresent participle of darkento take on a gloomy or forbidding lookhis face slowly darkened as we told him the sad news glooming, glowering, lowering(also louring) frowning, scowlingglaring, staringbrooding, moping, petting, pouting, sulkingangering, bristling, fuming, raging, steaming, stormingintimidating, menacing, threatening brightening, cheering (up), lightening, perking (up) to grow darkthe sky darkened as a storm moved in blackening, blacking out, closing in, dusking dimming, fading, waningglooming, lowering(also louring) brightening, lightening, lighting dawningbeaming, glowing, radiating, shining to make dark, dim, or indistinctyears of accumulated grime have darkened the painting until it can barely be seen beclouding, bedimming, befogging, blackening, blearing, blurring, clouding, dimming, dislimning, fogging, fuzzing (up), hazing, misting, obscuring, overcasting, overclouding, overshadowing, shadowing, shrouding adumbrating, blotting out, concealing, eclipsing, hiding, obliterating, screening, shadingcamouflaging, cloaking, covering, curtaining, disguising, masking, veiling brightening, illuminating, illumining, lightening, lighting (up) exposing, revealing, uncovering, unveiling to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirablethe scandal darkened his otherwise sterling reputation blemishing, marring, poisoning, spoiling, staining, tainting, tarnishing, touching, vitiating begriming, besmearing, besmirching, blackening, blurring, clouding, dirtying, discoloring, polluting, smearing, smirching, smudging, smutting, soiling, sullying, tarringabasing, cheapening, debasing, degrading, demeaning, discrediting, disgracing, dishonoring, fouling, lowering, shaming, sinkingbastardizing, corrupting, debauching, demoralizing, depraving, perverting, subvertingcoloring, distorting, twisting cleansing, purifyingdignifying, elevating, ennobling, enshrining, glorifying, hallowing, magnifying, uplifting |