(a.) Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed.

Stygian beamless black black as night caliginous cheerless dark dark as night dark as pitch darkling darksome depressing drear dreary dusky ebon ebony eclipsed funereal gloomy grey grim inky joyless night-black night-clad night-cloaked night-dark night-enshrouded night-filled night-mantled night-veiled obfuscated obscure obscured occulted pitch-black pitch-dark pitchy rayless shadowy starless subfusc tenebrious tenebrose tenebrous unhappy unilluminated unlighted unlit