| No. | Item | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | ashen | pale gray and darkened |
| 2. | backlit | darkened against a light |
| 3. | baleful | threatening harm; dark |
| 4. | black | very dark in color or light |
| 5. | blackened | made dark or black |
| 6. | blackish | somewhat black or dark |
| 7. | blackout | total loss of light |
| 8. | bleak | cold, bare, and dark |
| 9. | brooding | darkly threatening or gloomy |
| 10. | cavelike | dark like a cave |
| 11. | cavernous | dark and cave-like |
| 12. | charcoal | dark gray to black |
| 13. | cimmerian | very dark; black |
| 14. | clouded | darkened by clouds or haze |
| 15. | cloudy | darkened by cloud cover |
| 16. | coal-black | black like coal |
| 17. | creepy | dark and unsettling |
| 18. | dank | dark, cold, and damp |
| 19. | dark | having little or no light |
| 20. | darkened | made darker |
| 21. | dim | not bright; faintly lit |
| 22. | dimmed | made less bright |
| 23. | dismal | dark and depressing |
| 24. | dreary | dark, dull, and bleak |
| 25. | dusky | somewhat dark; shadowed |
| 26. | ebon | black; ebony-colored |
| 27. | ebony | deep black |
| 28. | eclipsed | darkened by blockage of light |
| 29. | eerie | strangely dark and unsettling |
| 30. | evil-looking | appearing darkly wicked |
| 31. | faint | barely visible in darkness |
| 32. | faintly lit | lit very weakly |
| 33. | fog-dark | darkened by fog |
| 34. | forbidding | dark and unfriendly |
| 35. | foreboding | darkly threatening |
| 36. | funereal | dark and mournful |
| 37. | gloaming | twilight darkness |
| 38. | gloomy | dark and depressing |
| 39. | gray-black | between gray and black |
| 40. | green-black | black with green tones |
| 41. | grim | dark and forbidding |
| 42. | grimy | darkened by dirt |
| 43. | half-lit | partly lit, partly dark |
| 44. | haunting | darkly lingering and eerie |
| 45. | hooded | covered and shaded |
| 46. | in the dark | in darkness |
| 47. | indistinct | dim and hard to make out |
| 48. | inky | as dark as ink |
| 49. | jet-black | deep glossy black |
| 50. | light-starved | lacking enough light |
| 51. | lightless | without any light |
| 52. | lightproof | blocking all light |
| 53. | lights-out | with lights turned off |
| 54. | low-lit | lit with little light |
| 55. | macabre | grimly dark and deathly |
| 56. | malevolent | darkly harmful in feeling |
| 57. | menacing | dark and threatening |
| 58. | midnight | deep darkness of night |
| 59. | mist-dark | darkened by mist |
| 60. | moonless | without moonlight |
| 61. | murk-filled | full of murk |
| 62. | murky | dark and hard to see through |
| 63. | night-black | black as night |
| 64. | nighted | covered by night |
| 65. | nightfall | the coming of darkness |
| 66. | obscure | not clear; darkened |
| 67. | obscured | hidden or darkened from view |
| 68. | occluded | blocked from view or light |
| 69. | opaque | not letting light through |
| 70. | overcast | covered with dark clouds |
| 71. | pitch dark | completely dark |
| 72. | pitch-black | completely dark |
| 73. | purple-black | black with purple tones |
| 74. | raven-black | black like a raven |
| 75. | sable | very dark black |
| 76. | sepulchral | gloomily dark; tomb-like |
| 77. | shaded | kept in shadow |
| 78. | shadowy | full of shadows; dim |
| 79. | shady | full of shade; dim |
| 80. | shrouded | covered in darkness or mist |
| 81. | sinister | suggesting evil darkness |
| 82. | slaty | dark gray like slate |
| 83. | smoky | darkened like smoke |
| 84. | sooty | blackened with soot |
| 85. | stygian | extremely dark and gloomy |
| 86. | sunless | without sunlight |
| 87. | tenebrous | dark, shadowy, or obscure |
| 88. | tree-shaded | shaded by trees |
| 89. | twilit | lit by faint twilight |
| 90. | umbrous | shady; dark |
| 91. | uncanny | weirdly dark or eerie |
| 92. | underexposed | too dark in an image |
| 93. | underground | below ground; dark |
| 94. | unilluminated | not illuminated |
| 95. | unlighted | not provided with light |
| 96. | unlit | not lit |
| 97. | unseeable | too dark to see |
| 98. | veiled | partly hidden or darkened |
| 99. | windowless | having no windows or daylight |
| 100. | wooded | covered with trees; shaded |