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English adjective: dark | |||
| 1. | dark devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black | ||
| Samples | Sitting in a dark corner. A dark day. Dark shadows. Dark as the inside of a black cat. | ||
| Similar | Acheronian, Acherontic, aphotic, black, caliginous, Cimmerian, crepuscular, darkened, darkening, darkling, darkling, dim, dusky, gloomful, glooming, gloomy, lightless, pitch-black, pitch-dark, semidark, Stygian, subdued, sulky, tenebrific, tenebrious, tenebrous, twilight, twilit, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit | ||
| Attribute | light, lightness | ||
| Antonyms | light | ||
| 2. | dark (used of color) having a dark hue | ||
| Samples | Dark green. Dark glasses. Dark colors like wine red or navy blue. | ||
| Similar | darkish | ||
| See also | black | ||
| Attribute | value | ||
| Antonyms | light-colored, light | ||
| 3. | dark brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes) | ||
| Samples | Dark eyes. | ||
| Similar | brunet, brunette | ||
| Antonyms | blond, blonde, light-haired | ||
| 4. | dark stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | black, sinister | ||
| Similar | evil | ||
| Antonyms | good | ||
| 5. | dark secret | ||
| Samples | Keep it dark. | ||
| Similar | concealed | ||
| Antonyms | unconcealed | ||
| 6. | dark showing a brooding ill humor | ||
| Samples | 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. A sour temper. A sullen crowd. | ||
| Synonyms | dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen | ||
| Similar | ill-natured | ||
| Antonyms | good-natured | ||
| 7. | dark lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | ||
| Samples | This benighted country. Benighted ages of barbarism and superstition. The dark ages. A dark age in the history of education. | ||
| Synonyms | benighted | ||
| Similar | unenlightened | ||
| Antonyms | enlightened | ||
| 8. | dark marked by difficulty of style or expression | ||
| Samples | Much that was dark is now quite clear to me. Those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure. | ||
| Synonyms | obscure | ||
| Similar | incomprehensible, uncomprehensible | ||
| Antonyms | comprehendible, comprehensible | ||
| 9. | dark causing dejection | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | blue, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry | ||
| Similar | cheerless, depressing, uncheerful | ||
| Antonyms | cheerful | ||
| 10. | dark having skin rich in melanin pigments | ||
| Samples | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Dark-skinned peoples. | ||
| Synonyms | colored, coloured, dark-skinned, non-white | ||
| Similar | black | ||
| Antonyms | white | ||
| 11. | dark not giving performances; closed | ||
| Samples | The theater is dark on Mondays. | ||
| Similar | inactive | ||
| Antonyms | active | ||
English noun: dark | |||
| 1. | dark (state) absence of light or illumination | ||
| Synonyms | darkness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | illumination | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | black, blackness, blackout, brownout, dimout, lightlessness, night, pitch blackness, semidarkness, total darkness | ||
| Antonyms | lighting, light | ||
| 2. | dark (state) absence of moral or spiritual values | ||
| Samples | The powers of darkness. | ||
| Synonyms | darkness, iniquity, wickedness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | condition, status | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | foulness | ||
| 3. | dark (location) an unilluminated area | ||
| Samples | He moved off into the darkness. | ||
| Synonyms | darkness, shadow | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | scene | ||
| 4. | dark (time) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | ||
| Synonyms | night, nighttime | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | period, period of time, time period | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | wedding night, weeknight | ||
| Part holonym | evening, late-night hour, lights-out, midnight, small hours | ||
| Part meronym | 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours | ||
| Antonyms | daylight, daytime, day | ||
| 5. | dark (cognition) an unenlightened state | ||
| Samples | He was in the dark concerning their intentions. His lectures dispelled the darkness. | ||
| Synonyms | darkness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | unenlightenment | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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