• with little or no light

Synonyms: black, pitch black, pitch dark, inky, jet black, unlit, unlighted, unilluminated, ill-lit, poorly lit

• (of a colour or object) not reflecting much light; approaching black in shade

• (of a period or situation) characterized by great unhappiness or unpleasantness

Synonyms: tragic, disastrous, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic, ruinous, devastating

• hidden from knowledge; mysterious

Synonyms: mysterious, secret, hidden, concealed, veiled, unrevealed, covert, clandestine

• denoting a velarized form of the sound of the letter l as it sounds at the end of a word or before another consonant (as in full or bulk in most accents of English)