Shading Synonyms and Antonyms

shādĭng
To become darker
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. trimming
  2. blackening
  3. shaving
To make darker
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. shadowing
  2. screening
  3. darkening
  4. overshadowing
  5. clouding
  6. casting
  7. obscuring
  8. tracing
  9. tinting
  10. adumbrating
  11. streaking
  12. sheltering
  13. obfuscating
  14. hinting
  15. eclipsing
  16. dimming
  17. blackening
  18. coloring
Cast a shadow over
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. shadowing
  2. eclipsing
  3. overshadowing
  4. screening
  5. sheltering
Antonyms:
  1. opening
A gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. blending

Words Related to Shading

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Shading Sentence Examples

  • You could add some shading to your bunny drawing.

  • Shading the glass with canvas or washes during the summer months has the same object in view.

  • A large space around the greatly developed callosities on the buttocks, as well as the upper part of the insides of the thighs, is naked and of a crimson colour, shading off on the sides to lilac or blue, which, depending upon injection of the superficial blood-vessels, varies in intensity according to the condition of the animal - increasing under excitement, fading during sickness, and disappearing after death.

  • Broadly speaking it may be said that a distinction may be drawn between " spirits " and " gods," but it is a distinction of degree rather than of kind, obvious enough at the upper end, yet shading off into manifold varieties of resemblance in the lower forms. Some writers only recognize friendly agencies as gods; but destructive powers like the volcano, or the lords of the underworld, cannot be regarded as the protectors of the life of man, yet they seem in many mythologies to attain the full personalised stature of gods with definite names.

  • They do not need shading, but should have plenty of air, and be syringed daily in the afternoon.

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