Dark and Grainy

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Dark adjective - Being without light or without much light.

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Grainy and dark are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Grainy" instead an adjective "Dark".

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

Grainy adjective - Made up of large particles.

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Dark and grainy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dark" instead an adjective "Grainy".

Nearby Words: grain, grained, graining

Mad Men on AMC is supposed to be set in the early 60s, and is filmed with a dark, slightly fuzzy/grainy look to it.

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Much to the delight of fans, there is in fact one (and only one) DVD edition of Army of Darkness that includes remastered versions of the extended cut's extra footage, instead of the same dark, grainy, poor-quality VHS transfers that are in every other release.

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The director and cinematographers of the film Ed Wood went out of their way to exaggerate the dark, grainy, ill-lit look of low-budget 1940s-1950s films.

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