obumbrate

  • 21obscure — Synonyms and related words: Cimmerian, abstruse, adiaphanous, adumbrate, aleatoric, aleatory, ambiguous, amorphic, amorphous, amphibological, anarchic, anonymous, apply to, arcane, around the bush, back of beyond, baffling, baggy, bandage,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 22occult — Synonyms and related words: abstract, abstruse, airy, anagogic, apply to, arcana, arcane, arcanum, asomatous, astral, baffling, becloud, beclouded, bedarken, bedim, befog, begloom, between the lines, black, black magic, black out, blacken,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 23overcast — Synonyms and related words: Acheronian, Acherontic, CAT, Cimmerian, Stygian, adumbrate, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, air pocket, airspace, becloud, bedarken, bedim, befog, begloom, bemist, black, black out, blacken, blackening, blanket, block …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 24overshadow — Synonyms and related words: adumbrate, becloud, bedarken, bedim, befog, begloom, bemist, bestraddle, bestride, black, black out, blacken, blight, block the light, blot out, brown, cast a shadow, clabber up, clear, cloud, cloud over, cloud up,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 25shade — Synonyms and related words: Masan, achromatism, adumbration, air, amount, anima, anima humana, apparition, appearance, apply paint, astral, astral spirit, atman, atom, awning, ba, baldacchino, baldachin, banshee, beat, becloud, bedarken, bedaub,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 26shadow — Synonyms and related words: Masan, adherent, adumbrate, adumbration, afterglow, afterimage, air, airy nothing, alter ego, amount, anima, anima humana, apparition, appearance, appendage, apply paint, arrangement, astral, astral spirit, atman,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 27shadowy — Synonyms and related words: air built, airy, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, asomatous, astral, blear, bleared, bleary, blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, bodiless, bosky, bowery, broad, cadaverous, chance, chancy, chaotic, chimerical, clear as mud …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 28shady — Synonyms and related words: amoral, bent, blue, bosky, broad, clouded, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, curtained, dark, darkling, derogatory, devious, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonest, dishonorable, disreputable,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 29adumbrate — v. a. 1. Shadow, foreshadow, shadow out, shadow forth, dimly outline, indicate, hint at, approximate, represent approximately, suggest, trace vaguely, faintly delineate. 2. Typify, represent, symbolize, show, denote, stand for, image, figure,… …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 30darken — v 1. blacken, black, opaque; shade, shadow, overshadow; eclipse, occult, black out, blot out; smudge, smirch, blotch, soot, begrime. 2. cloud, becloud, obscure, obfuscate, obumbrate. 3. dull, deaden, mat, tone down, take the color out of. 4. dim …

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