dark ages

Questions about dark ages

What is another word for dark ages?

It depends which dark ages you mean. In the sense “the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance”, the synonyms are Middle Ages. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of dark ages?

WordNet records no antonym for dark ages. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for dark ages come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of dark ages

• Full entry for dark agesAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for dark agesWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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