Dark and Gleaming

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Dark adjective - Being without light or without much light.

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Gleaming is an antonym for dark.

Nearby Words: darken, darkness, darkened, darkening, darkly

Gleaming adjective - Bright with a steady but subdued shining.

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Dark is an antonym for gleaming in glossy topic.

Nearby Words: gleam, gleamed

Despite its "gritty" art direction, the game uses a wide range of colors, from lush-green swamps and forests, to stark-white glaciers, to dark-blue castles gleaming in the night.

Source: Video Game / Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
In Oz: The Great and Powerful, Oscar, Finley and China Girl are spied on by a whole lot of pairs of gleaming eyes when they enter the Dark Forest.

Source: By the Lights of Their Eyes
Special mention goes to Nyarko (Nyarlathotep) herself, for being a beautiful teen girl with long silver hair, gleaming emerald eyes...and a Slasher Smile every time she rips dark abominations to shreds with her crowbar.

Source: Badass Adorable / Anime and Manga

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