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dark
/dɑrk/
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Definitions of dark
  1. noun
    the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

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    night nighttime
  2. adjective
    stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
    "Darth Vader of the dark side" "a dark purpose" "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"

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    black sinister evil
  3. noun
    absence of light or illumination

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    darkness
    Opposite:
    light
    type of:
    illumination
  4. adjective
    causing dejection
    "the dark days of the war" "a dark gloomy day"

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    blue dingy disconsolate dismal drab drear dreary gloomy grim sorry depressing uncheerful cheerless
  5. noun
    absence of moral or spiritual values
    "the powers of darkness"

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    darkness wickedness
    type of:
    status condition
  6. adjective
    lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
    "the dark ages" "a dark age in the history of education"

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    benighted unenlightened
  7. adjective
    marked by difficulty of style or expression
    "much that was dark is now quite clear to me"

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    obscure uncomprehensible incomprehensible
  8. noun
    an unenlightened state
    "he was in the dark concerning their intentions" "his lectures dispelled the darkness"

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    darkness
    type of:
    unenlightenment
  9. adjective
    showing a brooding ill humor
    "a dark scowl"

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    dour glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen ill-natured
  10. noun
    an unilluminated area
    "he moved off into the darkness"

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    darkness shadow
    type of:
    scene
  11. adjective
    brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
    "dark eyes"

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    brunette brunet
  12. adjective
    devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
    "sitting in a dark corner" "a dark day" "dark shadows" "dark as the inside of a black cat"

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    unlit caliginous cimmerian crepuscular darkened darkening darkling dim dusky gloomful glooming gloomy lightless pitch-black pitch-dark semidark stygian subdued sulky tenebrific tenebrious tenebrous twilight twilit unilluminated unlighted acheronian acherontic aphotic black
    Opposite:
    light
  13. adjective
    not giving performances; closed
    "the theater is dark on Mondays"

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    inactive
  14. adjective
    secret
    "keep it dark"

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    concealed
  15. adjective
    (used of color) having a dark hue
    "dark green" "dark glasses" "dark colors like wine red or navy blue"

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    darkish
    Opposite:
    light
Examples of dark
  • "Darth Vader of the dark side"
  • "a dark purpose"
  • "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"
  • "the dark days of the war"
  • "a dark gloomy day"
  • "the powers of darkness"
  • "the dark ages"
  • "a dark age in the history of education"
  • "much that was dark is now quite clear to me"
  • "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"
  • "his lectures dispelled the darkness"
  • "a dark scowl"
  • "he moved off into the darkness"
  • "dark eyes"
  • "sitting in a dark corner"
  • "a dark day"
  • "dark shadows"
  • "dark as the inside of a black cat"
  • "the theater is dark on Mondays"
  • "keep it dark"
  • "dark green"
  • "dark glasses"
  • "dark colors like wine red or navy blue"
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