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 | ||