Antonyms for shade
ʃeɪdshade

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1. shade

   Antonyms:
   blaze, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glare, gleam, gleaming, glimmer, glistening, glistering, glitter, glow, illumination, incandescence, light, luster, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, shine, shining, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling

   Synonyms:
   blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, dusk, gloom, gloominess, obscurity, shadow

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1. shadenoun

   Antonyms:
   illumination, light, daylight, sunshine, brightness, radiance, glare, chiaro, amount, largeness, considerableness, quantity, publicity, defencelessness, exposure

   Synonyms:
   shadow, adumbration, umbrage, darkness, somberness, obscurity, seclusion, protection, shelter, screen, oscuro, minuteness, touch, degree

2. shadeverb

   Antonyms:
   illuminate, brighten, make light

   Synonyms:
   shelter, screen, obscure, darken, cloud

Matched Categories

1. • Apparition
   • Change
   • Color
   • Inferiority
   • Meaning
   • Protective Covering
   • Screen
   • Semidarkness
   • Small Indefinite Quantity

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1. shade, shadiness, shadowinessnoun

   relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body

   "it is much cooler in the shade"; "there's too much shadiness to take good photographs"

   Synonyms:
   nicety, tone, tincture, specter, wraith, subtlety, shadowiness, ghost, shadiness, tad, tint, nuance, spook, refinement, spectre

2. shade, tint, tincture, tonenoun

   a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color

   "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"

   Synonyms:
   pure tone, spook, whole step, timber, look, wraith, timbre, step, smell, feel, quality, shadow, shadiness, nuance, tonicity, ghost, subtlety, shadowiness, vestige, spirit, tincture, tone, tad, tone of voice, flavour, note, whole tone, tonus, feeling, spectre, trace, flavor, nicety, refinement, specter, musical note, tint

3. shadenoun

   protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight

   "they used umbrellas as shades"; "as the sun moved he readjusted the shade"

   Synonyms:
   nicety, tone, tincture, specter, wraith, subtlety, shadowiness, ghost, shadiness, tad, tint, nuance, spook, refinement, spectre

4. nuance, nicety, shade, subtlety, refinementnoun

   a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude

   "without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humor"; "don't argue about shades of meaning"

   Synonyms:
   cultivation, wraith, refinement, shadiness, polish, refining, rightness, specter, ghost, purification, tincture, tint, nuance, shadowiness, nicety, culture, civilization, spectre, spook, civilisation, elaboration, subtlety, tone, finish, justness, niceness, tad

5. shadenoun

   a position of relative inferiority

   "an achievement that puts everything else in the shade"; "his brother's success left him in the shade"

   Synonyms:
   nicety, tone, tincture, specter, wraith, subtlety, shadowiness, ghost, shadiness, tad, tint, nuance, spook, refinement, spectre

6. tad, shadenoun

   a slight amount or degree of difference

   "a tad too expensive"; "not a tad of difference"; "the new model is a shade better than the old one"

   Synonyms:
   nicety, tone, tincture, specter, wraith, subtlety, shadowiness, ghost, shadiness, tad, tint, nuance, spook, refinement, spectre

7. ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectrenoun

   a mental representation of some haunting experience

   "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"

   Synonyms:
   phantasma, phantom, wraith, shadowiness, shadiness, touch, weirdo, weirdy, nuance, weirdie, specter, ghost, tincture, ghostwriter, tint, nicety, apparition, trace, phantasm, tad, spectre, spook, subtlety, tone, creep, fantasm, refinement

8. shadeverb

   a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment)

   Synonyms:
   nicety, tone, tincture, specter, wraith, subtlety, shadowiness, ghost, shadiness, tad, tint, nuance, spook, refinement, spectre

9. shadow, shade, shade offverb

   cast a shadow over

   Synonyms:
   dwarf, fill in, shade off, overshadow, shadow

10. shade, fill inverb

    represent the effect of shade or shadow on

    Synonyms:
    shade off, shadow, fill in, fill out, stand in, complete, make out, sub, substitute

11. shadeverb

    protect from light, heat, or view

    "Shade your eyes when you step out into the bright sunlight"

    Synonyms:
    fill in, shade off, shadow

12. shadeverb

    vary slightly

    "shade the meaning"

    Synonyms:
    fill in, shade off, shadow

13. shadeverb

    pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree

    "the butterfly wings shade to yellow"

    Synonyms:
    fill in, shade off, shadow

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1. shadenoun

   Synonyms:
   umbrage, shadow

2. shadenoun

   Synonyms:
   darkness, obscurity, gloom, shadows, retreat, seclusion, screen, protection, curtain, awning, blind, spirit, ghost, specter, phantom, manes, minute difference, variation, nuance

3. shadeverb

   Synonyms:
   screen, obscure, dim, obfuscate, cloud, darken, eclipse

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1. sunray lamp

   Submitted by rinat on October 3, 2019  

How to use shade in a sentence?

1. Gyorgy Balint:

   Looking back 100 years, I can say that cultivating the land is the most wonderful job you can have, modern societies should preserve a closeness to nature... people should be able to enjoy the shade a tree gives, or feel joy when a leander starts blooming.

2. Marie Sauter:

   There is no shade, there is no cover. You are out exposed to the sun, the wind the heat, the reflection of the sun off the white sand. It's a hash desert environment.

3. Thomas Hood (1799-1845), in the poem called No!:

   No sun - no moon! No morn - no noon - No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

4. Helen Hunt Jackson:

   Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.

5. Limbaugh Show producer James Golden:

   They did everything they could with their allies in the mainstream press, who have very little intellectual honesty, to smear him and shade any story that they could to discredit him. And then, they actively – members of Congress who are supposed to support this Constitution of ours – wanted to shut down Rush’s First Amendment right to speak and shut down this program – thankfully they were not successful in doing it – but they honestly did try.

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