caliginous
Adjective Satellite
- dark and misty and gloomy
Adj
- Dark, obscure; murky.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French caligineux (“misty; obscure”), or directly from its Latin etymon cālīginōsus (“misty; dark, obscure”). Cālīginōsus is derived from cālīgō, cālīginis (“fog, mist, vapour; darkness, gloom”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns).
Synonyms
blear, caliginous, cimmerian, crepuscular, dark, darkling, darksome, dim, dimpsy, dingy, dull, dusky, fuliginous, gloomy, leaden, lightless, mirksome, murksome, murky, obscure, shady, somber, sombrous, stygian, sunless, swarthy, tenebrous, twilightish, umbrageous, unilluminated
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 13
caliginous: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcaliginous: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
caliginous: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary