あいまいな (translations)→ banal catch-all equivocal evasive fuzzy grey indefinite noncommittal slightly tentative vague vaguely
どす黒い (translations)→ murky pure
暗い (translations)→ black darkly dim dingy dire dumb grief limited low melancholy pessimistic somber unhappy
暗がり (translations)→ angle darkness dimness gloom night semidark shades shadow
暗黒の (translations)→ blank seamy
闇 (translations)→ blackness hole informal
陰惨な (translations)→ awful brutally dismal grim
黒々とした (translations)→ coal-black
黒い (translations)→ blackish dusky sooty swarthy
黒ずんだ (translations)→ blackened
黒っぽい (translations)→ dark-looking darkish
真っ白 (translations)→ gray-faced white
濃い (translations)→ close deep dense full heavily heavy highly perpetual shaggy
薄暗い (translations)→ gloomy ill-lit shade underlit
悲惨な (translations)→ direly shabby terrible tragic
不可解な (translations)→ incomprehensible strange unaccountable unreadable