dark

Plural: darks

Noun

• absence of light or illumination
• absence of moral or spiritual values
  • "the powers of darkness"
• an unilluminated area
  • "he moved off into the darkness"
• the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
• an unenlightened state
  • "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"
  • "his lectures dispelled the darkness"
• A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
• Ignorance.
• Nightfall.
• A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

Adjective

• Having little or no light; lacking illumination.
• 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"
• (used of color) having a dark hue
  • "dark green"
  • "dark glasses"
  • "dark colors like wine red or navy blue"

Adjective Satellite

• brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
  • "dark eyes"
• stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; ; ; ; ; ; ; -Thomas Hardy
  • "Darth Vader of the dark side"
  • "a dark purpose"
  • "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"
• secret
  • "keep it dark"
• showing a brooding ill humor; ; ; ; ; ; - Bruce Bliven
  • "a dark scowl"
• lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
  • "the dark ages"
  • "a dark age in the history of education"
• marked by difficulty of style or expression
  • "much that was dark is now quite clear to me"
• causing dejection
  • "the dark days of the war"
  • "a dark gloomy day"
• having skin rich in melanin pigments
  • "dark-skinned peoples"
• not giving performances; closed
  • "the theater is dark on Mondays"

Adj

• Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
• Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
• Extinguished.
• Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
• Deprived of sight; blind.
• Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension
• Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
• Ambiguously or unclearly expressed.
• Marked by or conducted with secrecy.
• Marked by or conducted with secrecy.
• Having racing capability not widely known.
• Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.
• Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
• Lacking progress in science or the arts.
• Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
• With emphasis placed on the unpleasant and macabre aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
• Off the air; not transmitting.

Verb

Verb Forms: darked, darking, darks

• To make or become dark; to darken.
• To grow or become dark, darken.
• To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
• To make dark, darken; to obscure.

Examples

• a dark deed
• a dark villain
• dark money
• Dark signals should be treated as all-way stop signs.
• Dark surrounds us completely.
• He tried to DARK his intentions, hoping his opponent wouldn’t see his big play.
• Her skin grew dark with a suntan.
• His strategy felt DARK, making opponents wonder what unexpected word he’d play next.
• It was after dark before we got to playing baseball.
• My sister’s hair is darker than mine.
• September 11, 2001, the day when four terrorist attacks destroyed the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, is often referred to as America’s dark day.
• The dark ages began after the collapse of the Roman Empire.
• The ending of this book is rather dark.
• The film was a dark psychological thriller.
• The Great Depression was a dark time.
• The Greek Dark Ages began after the Bronze Age collapse.
• The lawyer was left in the dark as to why the jury was dismissed.
• The room was too dark for reading.
• This show is full of dark humor.
• We kept him in the dark.

Synonyms

benighted, black, blue, colored, coloured, dark-skinned, darkness, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dour, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, glowering, glum, grim, iniquity, moody, morose, night, nighttime, non-white, obscure, saturnine, shadow, sinister, sorry, sour, sullen, wickedness, abandoned, arcane, arrant, atrabiliary, atrabilious, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, baneful, base, bleak, blear, blitheless, bummed out, caliginous, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, cimmerian, clandestine, cluelessness, comfortless, concealed, covered, crepuscular, crepusculum, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, dejected, deleterious, demonic, deplorable, depraved, depressed, depressing, dern, desolate, despicable, despondent, detrimental, devilish, diabolical, dim, dimpsy, dire, disgruntled, disheartened, distressing, doleful, dolesome, doused, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, drearisome, dreich, dull, dusk, dusky, elegiac, elegious, enigmatic, esoteric, evenfall, evil, eyeless, flagitious, forlorn, fuliginous, full, fuscous, gayless, gloomsome, gray, grief-stricken, grieving, grievous, harmful, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, hidden, hopeless, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, immoral, inconsolable, incorrigible, infelicitous, iniquitous, iniquous, injurious, inky, intense, invisible, jawfallen, joyless, knavish, knowledgelessness, lachrymable, lachrymose, lack-laughter, lamentable, lamentful, languid, latent, leaden, lightless, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, melancholic, melancholy, mirkning, mirksome, mirthless, miserable, mopey, mournful, murksome, murky, muted, mysterious, mystic, nefarious, negative, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, no joke, no-good, obfuscated, obfuscatory, obscured, occluded, occult, occulted, out, passionate, pathetic, pathetisad, peccaminous, pernicious, pessimistic, pitiable, pitiful, pitisome, plaintive, private, quenched, querulous, recondite, regrettable, reprehensible, reprobate, rueful, sad, saddened, saddening, satanic, saturated, scathful, secluded, secret, secreted, shady, shattered, sightless, silent, sinful, snug, solemn, somber, sombre, sombrous, sordid, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, stygian, sunless, surreptitious, swarthy, tect, tenebrous, threnetic, threnetical, tragic, triste, tristful, twilightish, umbrageous, unapparent, unawareness, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, undefined, underground, undisclosed, unenlightened, ungodly, unhappy, unholy, unilluminated, unlively, unmerry, unseeing, upsetting, veiled, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wintry, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched, wrong

Antonyms

day, light, bright, dark, glowing, lit, luminiferous, luminous, pale, radiant, shining, sunny

Related Words

Egyptian darkness, black, dark colour, darken, darkling, darkness, shadow

Anagrams of dark