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Defenition of the word dark

    • Defenition of the word dark

      • Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
      • Marked by difficulty of style or expression.
      • Making despondent or depressive.
      • Moody and melancholic.
      • (For a color) Having a lower brightness.
      • 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"
      • 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
      • 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"
      • having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "the dark races"; "dark-skinned peoples"
      • not giving performances; closed; "the theater is dark on Mondays"
      • (used of hair or skin or eyes) "dark eyes"
      • devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness; shadowed or black or somber-colored; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "the theater is dark on Mondays"; "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"
      • secret; "keep it dark"; "the dark mysteries of Africa and the fabled wonders of the East"
      • an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness"
      • absence of light or illumination
      • 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"
      • 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"
      • an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness"
      • absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness"
      • the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
      • brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes); "dark eyes"
      • 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"
      • 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 sc
      • 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
      • an unenlightened state
      • an unilluminated area
      • absence of moral or spiritual values
      • not giving performances; closed
      • having skin rich in melanin pigments
      • brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
      • devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
      • causing dejection
      • (used of color) having a dark hue
      • marked by difficulty of style or expression
      • lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
      • stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
      • showing a brooding ill humor
      • secret

    Synonyms for the word dark

      • benighted
      • black
      • bleak
      • blue
      • brown
      • brunette
      • colored
      • coloured
      • dark-skinned
      • darkness
      • depressing
      • dim
      • dimness
      • disconsolate
      • dismal
      • dispiriting
      • dour
      • dusk
      • evil
      • gloom
      • gloomy
      • glowering
      • glum
      • grim
      • iniquity
      • moody
      • morose
      • murky
      • mysterious
      • night
      • nighttime
      • obscure
      • obscurity
      • sad
      • saturnine
      • shade
      • shadow
      • shadows
      • shadowy
      • shady
      • sinister
      • sour
      • sullen
      • threatening
      • unhappy
      • wickedness

    Similar words in the dark

      • Acheronian
      • Acherontic
      • achromatic
      • aphotic
      • black
      • brunet
      • brunette
      • caliginous
      • cheerless
      • Cimmerian
      • concealed
      • crepuscular
      • dark
      • darken
      • darkened
      • darkening
      • darkens
      • darker
      • darkest
      • darkish
      • darklier
      • darkliest
      • darkling
      • darkly
      • darkroom
      • darkroom's
      • darkrooms
      • dim
      • dusky
      • evil
      • gloomful
      • glooming
      • gloomy
      • ill-natured
      • inactive
      • incomprehensible
      • light-tight
      • lightless
      • lightproof
      • pitch-black
      • pitch-dark
      • Stygian
      • subdued
      • tenebrific
      • tenebrious
      • tenebrous
      • twilight
      • twilight(a)
      • twilit
      • uncheerful
      • uncomprehensible
      • unenlightened
      • unilluminated
      • unlighted
      • unlit
      • wicked

    Meronymys for the word dark

      • day
      • evening
      • late-night hour
      • lights-out
      • mean solar day
      • midnight
      • small hours
      • solar day
      • twenty-four hours

    Hyponyms for the word dark

      • black
      • blackness
      • blackout
      • brownout
      • darkish
      • dimout
      • foulness
      • lightlessness
      • night
      • pitch blackness
      • semidarkness
      • total darkness
      • wedding night
      • weeknight

    Hypernyms for the word dark

      • amount of time
      • condition
      • illumination
      • period
      • period of time
      • scene
      • status
      • surname
      • time period
      • unenlightenment

    Antonyms for the word dark

      • darkless
      • day
      • daylight
      • daytime
      • light
      • light-colored
      • lighting

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