dark wood
Unlit dense trees
Dark wood is wood with a deep, rich color—walnut, mahogany, ebony.
The phrase often describes furniture or interior design: The office was all dark wood and leather.
Figuratively, dark wood evokes the ominous forest of fairy tales and Dante's opening: In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark wood.
- ebonyDense dark tropical wood
- mahoganyReddish-brown tropical lumber
- rosewoodTropical cabinet timber
- wengeDark African hardwood
- hardwoodDense deciduous timber
heartwood · forest · walnut · grain · teak · gothic · blackwood · veneer · lacquered finish · furniture making · labyrinth · Dante · shadow · grenadilla · Dante's Inferno · chiaroscuro · old-growth · wolves
- dark materialscharcoal, coal, soot, tar, pitch
- Gothic Victorianturret, gable, spire, pointed arch, gargoyle
- Divine ComedyInferno, Dante, Paradiso, Beatrice, Virgil
- DanteDivine Comedy, Inferno, Dante, Paradiso, Beatrice
- Dark AcademiaLatin, Greek, classics, literature, Oxford
- infernohellfire, hellscape, brimstone, sulfur, limbo
dark woodopen field
Unenclosed outdoor space
meadow · open plain · prairie · savanna · heath
dark woodsafe haven
Protected place of shelter
sacred grove · enchanted garden · promised land · celestial realm · straight path
dark woodblonde wood
Pale-hued lumber variety
birch · maple · pine · ash · bleached wood