'Dark' definitions:

Definition of 'dark'

(from WordNet)
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" [ant: light]
adjective
(used of color) having a dark hue; "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue" [ant: light, light-colored]
adjective
Brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes); "dark eyes"
adjective
Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy [syn: black, dark, sinister]
adjective
Secret; "keep it dark"
adjective
Showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]
adjective
Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture; "this benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"; "the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education" [syn: benighted, dark]
adjective
Marked by difficulty of style or expression; "much that was dark is now quite clear to me"; "those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure" [syn: dark, obscure]
adjective
Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]
adjective
Having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "dark-skinned peoples" [syn: colored, coloured, dark, dark- skinned, non-white]
adjective
Not giving performances; closed; "the theater is dark on Mondays"
noun
Absence of light or illumination [syn: dark, darkness] [ant: light, lighting]
noun
Absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness" [syn: iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark]
noun
An unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness" [syn: darkness, dark, shadow]
noun
The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside [syn: night, nighttime, dark] [ant: day, daylight, daytime]
noun
An unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness" [syn: dark, darkness]

Definition of 'Dark'

From: GCIDE
  • Dark \Dark\ (d[aum]rk), a. [OE. dark, derk, deork, AS. dearc, deorc; cf. Gael. & Ir. dorch, dorcha, dark, black, dusky.]
  • 1. Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion. [1913 Webster]
  • O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • In the dark and silent grave. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden. [1913 Webster]
  • The dark problems of existence. --Shairp. [1913 Webster]
  • What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
  • What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant. [1913 Webster]
  • The age wherein he lived was dark, but he Could not want light who taught the world to see. --Denhan. [1913 Webster]
  • The tenth century used to be reckoned by medi[ae]val historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night. --Hallam. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed. [1913 Webster]
  • Left him at large to his own dark designs. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious. [1913 Webster]
  • More dark and dark our woes. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • A deep melancholy took possesion of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • There is, in every true woman-s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Deprived of sight; blind. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Dark is sometimes used to qualify another adjective; as, dark blue, dark green, and sometimes it forms the first part of a compound; as, dark-haired, dark-eyed, dark-colored, dark-seated, dark-working. [1913 Webster]
  • A dark horse, in racing or politics, a horse or a candidate whose chances of success are not known, and whose capabilities have not been made the subject of general comment or of wagers. [Colloq.]
  • Dark house, Dark room, a house or room in which madmen were confined. [Obs.] --Shak.
  • Dark lantern. See Lantern. -- The
  • Dark Ages, a period of stagnation and obscurity in literature and art, lasting, according to Hallam, nearly
  • 1000 years, from about 500 to about 1500 A. D.. See Middle Ages, under Middle.
  • The Dark and Bloody Ground, a phrase applied to the State of Kentucky, and said to be the significance of its name, in allusion to the frequent wars that were waged there between Indians.
  • The dark day, a day (May 19, 1780) when a remarkable and unexplained darkness extended over all New England.
  • To keep dark, to reveal nothing. [Low] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Dark'

From: GCIDE
  • Dark \Dark\ (d[aum]rk), n.
  • 1. Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light. [1913 Webster]
  • Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy. [1913 Webster]
  • Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Till we perceive by our own understandings, we are as much in the dark, and as void of knowledge, as before. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Fine Arts) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted. [1913 Webster]
  • The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Dark'

From: GCIDE
  • Dark \Dark\, v. t. To darken; to obscure. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'dark'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Dark'