umbra
The word “umbra” has 2 syllables: um-bra
It's pronounced as /ˈʌm.brə/
What is synonym and antonym for umbra?
In the thesaurus, “umbra” has 73 synonyms and 31 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for umbra along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for umbra
- adumbration
- apparition
- black
- blackness
- blackout
- body
- bogey
- brownout
- candlelight
- character
- cloudiness
- coolness
- cover
- creature
- dark
- darkness
- dimness
- dimout
- dullness
- dulness
- dusk
- duskiness
- eidolon
- faintness
- fogginess
- ghost
- gloaming
- gloom
- gloominess
- grayness
- half-light
- haunt
- haziness
- human being
- individual
- living soul
- man
- manes
- midnight
- mistiness
- mortal
- murk
- murkiness
- night
- obscuration
- obscurity
- paleness
- penumbra
- person
- personage
- phantasm
- phantom
- poltergeist
- protection
- revenant
- screen
- semidarkness
- shade
- shadiness
- shadow
- shadows
- shelter
- somberness
- soul
- specter
- spirit
- spook
- supernatural being
- twilight
- umbrage
- vision
- woman
- wraith
Antonyms for umbra
- abstract
- being
- blaze
- brightness
- brilliance
- day
- daylight
- effulgence
- gap
- glare
- glow
- illumination
- inanimate
- incandescence
- information
- light
- lightness
- lucidity
- lucidness
- luminance
- luminescence
- luminosity
- luminousness
- moonlight
- radiance
- radiancy
- reality
- shine
- starlight
- sunlight
- sunshine
Meanings of umbra
- noun
- The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object.
- The central region of a sunspot.
- A shadow.
- An uninvited guest brought along by one who was invited.
- One of the family Umbridae of mudminnows.
- A sciaenoid fish, the umbrine.
Example Sentences
- The moon cast a shadow, and within the umbra, darkness prevailed.
- As the solar eclipse unfolded, spectators marveled at the beauty of the moon's umbra.
- In the quiet forest, the creature moved silently through the umbra of the trees.
- The artist skillfully captured the play of light and umbra in the mysterious painting.
- As the sun dipped below the horizon, the city fell under the cool embrace of the night's umbra.
On this page you'll find 104 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to umbra, such as: abstract, adumbration, apparition, being, black, blackness, blackout.
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Related Words
dark
- Cimmerian
- Delphian
- Delphic
- abstruse
- ambiguous
- anagogic
- analphabetic
- aphotic
- arcane
- artless
- atramentous
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- bad
- baffling
- banned
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- base
- beclouded
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- black
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- blue
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- brunet
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- cabalistic
- caliginous
- callow
- candlelight
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- cheerless
- chill
- cimmerian
- circuitous
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- cold
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- complex
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- contemptible
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- cursed
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- darkened
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- dead of night
- debased
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- denseness
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- dim
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- discreet
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- dishonest
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- dreich
- droopy
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- eerie
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- elegiac
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- elliptic
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- enigmatic
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- equivocal
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- faint
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- fuliginous
- functionally illiterate
- funereal
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- gray
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- green
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- grim
- half-light
- hangdog
- haziness
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- hugger-mugger
- idiotic
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- imbecilic
- immoral
- impalpable
- impenetrable
- improper
- inappreciable
- incomprehensible
- inconsolable
- incorrect
- indecent
- indecipherable
- indecorous
- indefinite
- indirect
- indistinct
- indistinguishable
- inexact
- inexperienced
- inexplicable
- inexplicit
- infamous
- infernal
- iniquitous
- inky
- innocent
- innumerate
- inscrutability
- inscrutable
- intangible
- interdicted
- intricate
- invisible
- joyless
- knotty
- lackluster
- lamentable
- leaden
- libertine
- lightless
- lonely
- lonesome
- loose
- louring
- loury
- lousy
- low
- low-minded
- lowbrow
- lowering
- lowery
- lugubrious
- lurid
- masked
- mean
- melancholic
- melancholy
- menacing
- midnight
- mirthless
- miserable
- mistiness
- misty
- moonless
- morbid
- moronic
- morose
- mournful
- muddy
- murk
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- mysterious
- mystic
- mystical
- mystifying
- naive
- nasty
- naughty
- nebulous
- nefarious
- negative
- night
- nightfall
- nighttime
- noncommittal
- nonliterate
- not known
- noxious
- obfuscatory
- obfuscous
- objectionable
- obnubilated
- obscene
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- obscurantic
- obscure
- obscured
- obscurity
- obtuse
- occult
- offensive
- ominous
- opaque
- oppressive
- outlawed
- overcast
- pale
- paleness
- pernicious
- perplexing
- perverted
- pessimistic
- pestilential
- philistine
- pitch-black
- pitch-dark
- pitchy
- plaintive
- plutonian
- prohibited
- proscribed
- prudent
- puzzling
- questionable
- quiet
- raw
- rayless
- recondite
- reprehensible
- reprobate
- reserved
- reticent
- rotten
- roundabout
- rude
- sad
- saturnine
- scowling
- scrofulous
- seclusion
- secrecy
- secret
- secretive
- semidarkness
- semiliterate
- senseless
- sepulchral
- shade
- shaded
- shadiness
- shadowlike
- shadows
- shadowy
- shady
- shrouded
- sick
- silent
- silly
- simple
- sinful
- sinister
- smoggy
- sneak
- sneaky
- snide
- solemn
- somber
- somberness
- sombre
- sooty
- sordid
- sorrowful
- soupy
- sphinxlike
- starless
- stealthy
- stupid
- stygian
- sulky
- sullen
- sunless
- surreptitious
- swart
- swarthy
- taciturn
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- thickness
- threatening
- tight-lipped
- tight-mouthed
- twilight
- twilit
- ugly
- umbra
- umbrage
- unanswerable
- unauthorized
- unbecoming
- uncanny
- uncertain
- unclean
- unclear
- uncommunicative
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- undefined
- undercover
- underhand
- underhanded
- undetermined
- uneducated
- unenlightened
- unethical
- unfathomable
- ungodly
- unhappy
- unhealthy
- uninstructed
- unknowable
- unknowledgeable
- unlawful
- unlearned
- unlettered
- unlighted
- unlit
- unprincipled
- unpropitious
- unread
- unrighteous
- unsavory
- unschooled
- unscrupulous
- unseemly
- unskilled
- unsophisticated
- untaught
- untrained
- untutored
- unwholesome
- upsetting
- vague
- vicious
- vile
- villainous
- vulgar
- weird
- wicked
- witching hour
- witless
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
- wrong
darkness
- Cimmerian shade
- abstruseness
- abstrusity
- ambiguity
- ambiguousness
- black
- blackness
- blackout
- bleakness
- brownout
- candlelight
- circuitousness
- circuity
- cloud
- cloudiness
- complexity
- complication
- concealment
- crepuscule
- dark
- deepness
- denseness
- depression
- depth
- despair
- despondency
- difficulty
- dimness
- dimout
- doom
- dullness
- dulness
- dusk
- dysphoria
- eclipse
- equivocalness
- equivocation
- evening
- faintness
- fog
- fogginess
- fuzziness
- gloaming
- gloom
- gloominess
- grayness
- grimness
- half-light
- haze
- haziness
- ignorance
- impenetrability
- incomprehensibility
- incomprehensibleness
- indefiniteness
- indirectness
- indistinctness
- inscrutability
- inscrutableness
- lightlessness
- mantle
- melancholy
- midnight
- misery
- mist
- mistiness
- morbidity
- moroseness
- murk
- murkiness
- mysteriousness
- mystery
- nebulosity
- nebulousness
- negativity
- night
- nightfall
- nighttime
- obliqueness
- obliquity
- oblivion
- obscurity
- obtuseness
- opacity
- opaqueness
- paleness
- pall
- penumbra
- pitch-darkness
- privacy
- profoundness
- reconditeness
- seclusion
- secrecy
- semidarkness
- shade
- shadiness
- shadow
- shadows
- shroud
- smokiness
- somberness
- tenebrosity
- twilight
- umbra
- umbrage
- unawareness
- uncertainty
- vagueness
- veil
half-light
- afterglow
- afterlight
- aurora
- black
- blackness
- blackout
- break of day
- brownout
- candlelight
- cloudiness
- cocklight
- crack of dawn
- crepuscular light
- dark
- darkness
- dawn
- dawning
- dawnlight
- day-peep
- daylight
- decline
- dimness
- dimout
- dullness
- dulness
- dusk
- early evening
- ebb
- end
- evening
- eventide
- faintness
- first flush of morning
- fogginess
- gloaming
- gloom
- gloominess
- glow
- grayness
- haziness
- last phase
- late afternoon
- midnight
- mistiness
- morning
- murk
- murkiness
- night
- nightfall
- paleness
- peep of day
- semidarkness
- shade
- shadiness
- shadows
- somberness
- sundown
- sunrise
- sunset
- sunup
- twilight
- umbra
- umbrage
paleness
- anemia
- black
- blackness
- blackout
- brownout
- candlelight
- cloudiness
- colorlessness
- dark
- darkness
- dimness
- dimout
- dullness
- dulness
- dusk
- faintness
- fogginess
- gloaming
- gloom
- gloominess
- grayness
- half-light
- haziness
- lividness
- midnight
- mistiness
- murk
- murkiness
- night
- obscurity
- pallidness
- semidarkness
- shade
- shadiness
- shadows
- sickness
- somberness
- translucency
- twilight
- umbra
- umbrage
- whiteness
pall
- Potemkin village
- Trojan horse
- abate
- alleviate
- become dull
- become tedious
- bier
- blanket
- blind
- body bag
- box
- camouflage
- casket
- charnel
- charnel house
- cloak
- cloth
- cloud
- cloy
- coffin
- collapse
- compress
- concealer
- condense
- constrict
- contract
- cope
- cover
- cover-up
- covering
- coverture
- crypt
- curtain
- damp
- damper
- darkness
- de-escalate
- decline
- decrease
- deflate
- diminish
- disguise
- disgust
- dismay
- dwindle
- ease
- ebb
- evaporate
- facade
- face
- fall
- fall away
- fig leaf
- fill
- flag
- fog
- give out
- gloss
- glut
- gorge
- haze
- hood
- jade
- lessen
- let up
- lower
- mantle
- mask
- melancholy
- midnight
- mist
- moderate
- murk
- night
- penumbra
- phase down
- recede
- relax
- relent
- remit
- robe
- sarcophagus
- sate
- satiate
- screen
- sepulcher
- sepulchre
- sepulture
- shadow
- shield
- shrink
- shroud
- sicken
- sink
- slacken
- subside
- surfeit
- taper
- taper off
- tomb
- umbra
- urn
- vanish
- varnish
- vault
- veil
- veneer
- wane
- weaken
- weary
- wraps