'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
noun
Absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness" [syn: iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark]
noun
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
- ableptical,
- abominable,
- abstruse,
- adiaphanous,
- age of ignorance,
- amaurotic,
- amoral,
- amorphous,
- amorphousness,
- apocalyptic,
- arcane,
- arrant,
- atramentous,
- atrocious,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- barbarism,
- base,
- beamless,
- beetle-browed,
- benighted,
- benightedness,
- benightment,
- bereft of light,
- black,
- black as coal,
- black as ebony,
- black as ink,
- black as midnight,
- black as night,
- black-browed,
- black-skinned,
- blackish,
- blackness,
- blamable,
- blameworthy,
- bleak,
- blear,
- bleared,
- bleary,
- blind,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- brown,
- brunet,
- cabalistic,
- caliginous,
- castellatus,
- censored,
- cheerless,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- classified,
- clear as mud,
- close,
- closed,
- closemouthed,
- cloud-flecked,
- clouded,
- cloudy,
- coal-black,
- coaly,
- color-blind,
- colored,
- complicated,
- concealed,
- confused,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cryptic,
- cumuliform,
- cumulous,
- damnable,
- dark age,
- dark as night,
- dark as pitch,
- dark-colored,
- dark-complexioned,
- dark-skinned,
- darkish,
- darkling,
- darkness,
- darkness visible,
- darksome,
- dead of night,
- deep,
- deep black,
- dejected,
- devilish,
- devious,
- dim,
- dim-sighted,
- dire,
- dirty,
- discreet,
- disgraceful,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- dismal,
- doleful,
- doomful,
- doubtful,
- dour,
- drab,
- drear,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dubious,
- dull,
- dumpish,
- dun,
- dusk,
- dusky,
- ebon,
- ebony,
- eclipsed,
- Egyptian darkness,
- enigmatic,
- Erebus,
- esoteric,
- evasive,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- execrable,
- eyeless,
- faint,
- fateful,
- feeble,
- felonious,
- filmy,
- fishy,
- flagitious,
- flagrant,
- fog,
- fogginess,
- foggy,
- foreboding,
- foul,
- fraudulent,
- frowning,
- funebrial,
- funereal,
- fuzziness,
- fuzzy,
- gloom,
- gloominess,
- gloomy,
- glowering,
- glum,
- Gothicism,
- grave,
- gray,
- grim,
- grum,
- grumly,
- half-seen,
- half-visible,
- hazy,
- heathenism,
- heavy,
- heinous,
- hellish,
- hemeralopic,
- hermetic,
- hidden,
- hush-hush,
- ignorance,
- ignorant,
- ill,
- ill-boding,
- ill-defined,
- ill-fated,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- ill-lighted,
- ill-lit,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- immoral,
- impenetrable,
- impervious to light,
- improper,
- in darkness,
- in the dark,
- inauspicious,
- incomprehensible,
- inconspicuous,
- indefinite,
- indeterminate,
- indeterminateness,
- indirect,
- indistinct,
- indistinctness,
- indistinguishable,
- infamous,
- iniquitous,
- ink-black,
- inky,
- insidious,
- intense darkness,
- intransparent,
- intricate,
- jetty,
- joyless,
- knavish,
- knotty,
- latent,
- lenticularis,
- lightlessness,
- low,
- low-profile,
- lowering,
- mammatus,
- melancholy,
- melanian,
- melanic,
- melanistic,
- melano,
- melanotic,
- melanous,
- menacing,
- merely glimpsed,
- midnight,
- mind-blind,
- mist,
- mistiness,
- misty,
- monstrous,
- moodish,
- moody,
- moonlessness,
- mopey,
- moping,
- mopish,
- morose,
- mournful,
- muddy,
- mumbo jumbo,
- mumpish,
- murk,
- murkiness,
- murky,
- mysterious,
- mystic,
- mystical,
- mystification,
- mystifying,
- naughty,
- nebulous,
- nefarious,
- night,
- night-black,
- night-clad,
- night-cloaked,
- night-dark,
- night-enshrouded,
- night-filled,
- night-mantled,
- night-veiled,
- nightfall,
- nigrescent,
- nigrous,
- nimbose,
- not kosher,
- nubilous,
- nyctalopic,
- obfuscated,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- obscure,
- obscure darkness,
- obscured,
- obscurity,
- occult,
- occulted,
- of evil portent,
- ominous,
- opacity,
- opaque,
- out of focus,
- overcast,
- overclouded,
- paganism,
- pale,
- peccant,
- perplexity,
- pessimistic,
- pitch-black,
- pitch-dark,
- pitch-darkness,
- pitchy,
- pitchy darkness,
- portending,
- profound,
- puzzling,
- questionable,
- rank,
- raven,
- raven-black,
- rayless,
- recondite,
- reprehensible,
- reprobate,
- restricted,
- roiled,
- roily,
- rotten,
- sable,
- sad,
- satanic,
- saturnine,
- savagery,
- scandalous,
- scowling,
- secret,
- secretive,
- semivisible,
- shadowy,
- shady,
- shameful,
- shameless,
- shapeless,
- shapelessness,
- shifty,
- sightless,
- sinful,
- sinister,
- slippery,
- sloe,
- sloe-black,
- sloe-colored,
- smothered,
- sober,
- solemn,
- somber,
- sombrous,
- sorrowful,
- spiritually blind,
- squally,
- stark blind,
- starless,
- starlessness,
- stifled,
- stone-blind,
- stormy,
- stratiform,
- stratous,
- Stygian,
- subfusc,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- sunless,
- sunlessness,
- suntanned,
- suppressed,
- surly,
- suspicious,
- swart,
- swarth,
- swarthiness,
- swarthy,
- tar-black,
- tarry,
- tenebrious,
- tenebrose,
- tenebrosity,
- tenebrous,
- tenebrousness,
- the palpable obscure,
- threatening,
- thunderheaded,
- top secret,
- total darkness,
- transcendent,
- tricky,
- triste,
- turbid,
- ulterior,
- unbreatheable,
- uncertain,
- unclarity,
- unclear,
- unclearness,
- uncommunicative,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- undefined,
- under security,
- under wraps,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undiscerning,
- undisclosable,
- undisclosed,
- undivulgable,
- undivulged,
- unenlightened,
- unenlightenment,
- unethical,
- unfathomable,
- unfavorable,
- unforgivable,
- unfortunate,
- unilluminated,
- unlighted,
- unlit,
- unlucky,
- unobserving,
- unpardonable,
- unperceiving,
- unplain,
- unplainness,
- unprincipled,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- unrecognizable,
- unrevealable,
- unrevealed,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unseeing,
- unspeakable,
- unspoken,
- unstraightforward,
- untellable,
- untold,
- untoward,
- unutterable,
- unuttered,
- unwhisperable,
- unworthy,
- vague,
- vagueness,
- velvet darkness,
- vicious,
- vile,
- villainous,
- visionless,
- weak,
- weariful,
- wearisome,
- weary,
- wicked,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- wrong
Words containing 'Dark'
- Darke,
- Darkful,
- Darkly,
- Darkness,
- in darkness,
- in the dark,
- A dark horse,
- Dark Ages,
- Dark house,
- Dark lantern,
- Dark room,
- Dark sentence,
- Darke County,
- Darke, OH,
- Prince of darkness,
- The dark day,
- To keep dark,
- To walk in darkness,
- dark adaptation,
- dark blue,
- dark bread,
- dark chocolate,
- dark cloud,
- dark comedy,
- dark glasses,
- dark horse,
- dark matter,
- dark meat,
- dark red,
- grope in the dark,
- total darkness,
- Darke County, OH,
- Pitch-dark,
- The Dark and Bloody Ground,
- dark field illumination,
- dark ground illumination,
- dark-blue,
- dark-brown,
- dark-coated,
- dark-colored,
- dark-coloured,
- dark-fruited,
- dark-gray,
- dark-green,
- dark-grey,
- dark-haired,
- dark-skinned,
- dark-spotted,
- dark-eyed junco,
- dark-field microscope,
- brown brownish dark-brown,
- black-haired dark-haired,
- blue bluish light-blue dark-blue,
- green greenish light-green dark-green