pitch-dark
Without any light
Pitch-dark means completely dark, with no light at all.
The pitch refers to the black, tar-like substance—dark as pitch.
The basement was pitch-dark.
We stumbled through pitch-dark streets after the power went out.
Pitch-black means the same thing.
Complete power loss
- inkinessQuality of being jet-black
- voidWithout legal effect
- abyssImmeasurably profound depth
- murkThick atmospheric darkness
gloom · obsidian · tenebrous · opaque · stygian · unlit · lightless · impenetrable
Extreme, overwhelming fear
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- nightmareFrightening dream causing wakefulness
- horrorExtreme fear or disgust
- eerieDisturbingly strange
creepy · sinister · ominous · foreboding · menacing · lurking · unknown · unseen
Lacking the sense of sight
- sightlessUnable to perceive visually
- gropingSearching by touch alone
- stumblingWalking clumsily, almost falling
- fumblingClumsy, uncoordinated handling
lost · confused · unseeing · helpless · vulnerable · directionless
Twelve o'clock at night
- nocturnalActive during darkness
- nightfallOnset of darkness
- nighttimeDark hours between dusk and dawn
- eveningLate day period
sundown · late-night · predawn · graveyard-shift · night-owl · sleepless · insomnia
Kept out of sight
- obscuredMade hard to perceive
- shroudedCovered and hidden
- veiledConcealed or obscured
- cloakedConcealed or covered
invisible · undetectable · camouflaged · lurking · shadowy · secret · stealthy · enshrouded
blackout
Complete power loss
murk · gloom · obsidian · tenebrous · opaque · stygian · unlit · lightless · impenetrable · coal-black
terror
Extreme, overwhelming fear
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- nightmareFrightening dream causing wakefulness
- horrorExtreme fear or disgust
eerie · creepy · sinister · ominous · foreboding · menacing · lurking · unknown · unseen · haunted
blind
Lacking the sense of sight
- sightlessUnable to perceive visually
- gropingSearching by touch alone
- stumblingWalking clumsily, almost falling
fumbling · lost · confused · unseeing · helpless · vulnerable · directionless
midnight
Twelve o'clock at night
evening · sundown · late-night · predawn · graveyard-shift · night-owl · sleepless · insomnia
hidden
Kept out of sight
cloaked · invisible · undetectable · camouflaged · lurking · shadowy · secret · stealthy · enshrouded · unseeable