NOIRISH Synonyms

• offering little or no hope

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• unpleasantly cold and damp

• sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body

• persistent morbid meditation on a problem

• deeply or seriously thoughtful

• devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black

• (used of color) having a dark hue

• absence of light or illumination

• absence of moral or spiritual values

• an unilluminated area

• the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

• an unenlightened state

• brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)

• stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

• secret

• showing a brooding ill humor

• lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture

• marked by difficulty of style or expression

• causing dejection

• not giving performances; closed

• depressingly dark

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German

• of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths

• of or relating to the Goths

• extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas

• a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries

• a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches

• as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened

• characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque

• United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)

• United States evangelist (1837-1899)

• showing a brooding ill humor

• subject to sharply varying moods

• of an obscure nature

• having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding

• filled with shade

• lacking clarity or distinctness

• lacking in substance

• lacking brightness or color; dull

• grave or even gloomy in character