ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

V. be dark &c adj.. darken, obscure, shade; dim; tone down, lower; overcast,
overshadow; eclipse; obfuscate, offuscate † ; obumbrate † , adumbrate; cast into the shade
becloud, bedim † , bedarken † ; cast a shade, throw a shade, spread a shade, cast a shadow,
cast a gloom, throw a shadow, spread a shadow, cast gloom, throw gloom, spread gloom.
extinguish; put out, blow out, snuff out; doubt.
turn out the lights, douse the lights, dim the lights, turn off the lights, switch off the
lights.
Adj. dark, darksome † , darkling; obscure, tenebrious † , sombrous † , pitch dark, pitchy, pitch
black; caliginous † ; black &c (in color) 431.
sunless, lightless &c (sun) (light), &c 423; somber, dusky; unilluminated &c
(illuminate) &c 420 [Obs.]; nocturnal; dingy, lurid, gloomy; murky, murksome † ; shady,
umbrageous; overcast &c (dim) 422; cloudy &c (opaque) 426; darkened; &c v.. dark as
pitch, dark as a pit, dark as Erebus [Lat.].
benighted; noctivagant † , noctivagous † .
Adv. in the dark, in the shade.
Phr. brief as the lightning in the collied night [M.
N.
D.]; eldest Night and Chaos, ancestors of Nature [Paradise Lost]; the blackness of the
noonday night [Longfellow]; the prayer of Ajax was for light [Longfellow].
422. Dimness -- N. dimness &c adj.; darkness &c 421; paleness &c (light color) 429.
half light, demi-jour; partial shadow, partial eclipse; shadow of a shade; glimmer,
gliming † ; nebulosity; cloud &c 353; eclipse.
aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time † ; break of day,
daybreak, dawn.
moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade † , moonshine; starlight, owl's light, candlelight,
rushlight, firelight; farthing candle.
V. be dim, grow dim &c adj.; flicker, twinkle, glimmer; loom, lower; fade; pale, pale its
ineffectual fire [Hamlet].
render dim &c adj.; dim, bedim † , obscure; darken, tone down.
Adj. dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark 421.
faint, shadowed forth; glassy; cloudy; misty &c (opaque) 426; blear; muggy † ,
fuliginous † ; nebulous, nebular; obnubilated † , overcast, crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden,
dun, dirty; looming &c v.. pale &c (colorless) 429; confused &c (invisible) 447.
423. [Source of light, self-luminous body.] Luminary -- N. luminary; light &c 420; flame
&c (fire) 382.
spark, scintilla; phosphorescence, fluorescence.
sun, orb of day, Phoebus, Apollo † , Aurora; star, orb; meteor, falling star, shooting star;
blazing star, dog star, Sirius; canicula, Aldebaran † ; constellation, galaxy; zodiacal light;
anthelion † ; day star, morning star; Lucifer; mock sun, parhelion; phosphor, phosphorus;
sun dog † ; Venus.
aurora, polar lights; northern lights, aurora borealis; southern lights, aurora australis.
lightning; chain lightning, fork lightning, sheet lightning, summer lightning; ball
lightning, kugelblitz [G.]; [chemical substances giving off light without burning]
phosphorus, yellow phosphorus; scintillator, phosphor; firefly luminescence.