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Dark   /dɑrk/   Listen
Dark

adjective
1.
Devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black.  "A dark day" , "Dark shadows" , "Dark as the inside of a black cat"
2.
(used of color) having a dark hue.  "Dark glasses" , "Dark colors like wine red or navy blue"
3.
Brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes).
4.
Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable.  Synonyms: black, sinister.  "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"
5.
Secret.
6.
Showing a brooding ill humor.  Synonyms: dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen.  "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"
7.
Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture.  Synonym: benighted.  "Benighted ages of barbarism and superstition" , "The dark ages" , "A dark age in the history of education"
8.
Marked by difficulty of style or expression.  Synonym: obscure.  "Those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure"
9.
Causing dejection.  Synonyms: blue, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry.  "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"
10.
Having skin rich in melanin pigments.  Synonyms: colored, coloured, dark-skinned, non-white.  "Dark-skinned peoples"
11.
Not giving performances; closed.
noun
1.
Absence of light or illumination.  Synonym: darkness.
2.
Absence of moral or spiritual values.  Synonyms: darkness, iniquity, wickedness.
3.
An unilluminated area.  Synonyms: darkness, shadow.
4.
The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside.  Synonyms: night, nighttime.
5.
An unenlightened state.  Synonym: darkness.  "His lectures dispelled the darkness"



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"Dark" Quotes from Famous Books



... foreground lies the grave of Hortense, with the carved likeness of the queenly sister of the flowers. Loneliness reigns around the spot, but above it, in the air, hovers the imperial eagle. The imperial mantle, studded with its golden bees, undulates behind him, like the train of a comet; the dark-red ribbon of the Legion of Honor, with the golden cross, hangs around his neck, and in his beak he bears a full-blooming branch of ...
— Queen Hortense - A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era • L. Muhlbach
... way, somewhat in the dark as to his enemy's movements, because he had despatched most of his cavalry upon raiding expeditions towards the important industrial centre of Harrisburg. Meade continued on a parallel course to him, with his army spread ...
— Abraham Lincoln • Lord Charnwood
... none of his genius, I see the folly of taking a violent part without any view, (I don't mean to commend a violent part with a view, that is still worse;) I leave the state to be scrambled for by Mazarine, at once cowardly and enterprising, ostentatious, jealous, and false; by Louvois, rash and dark; by Colbert, the affecter of national interest, with designs not much better; and I leave the Abb'e de la Rigbi'ere to sell the weak Duke of Orleans to whoever has money to buy him, or would buy him ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole
... glowring their eyes out of their heads at it, from morning till night; and, after they all were gone to their beds, both Nanse and me found ourselves so proud of our new situation in life, that we slipped out in the dark by ourselves, and had a prime look at ...
— The Life of Mansie Wauch - tailor in Dalkeith • D. M. Moir
... he should find it shut and locked, for he knew the door well, and had so rarely seen it open, that he couldn't reckon above three times in all. It was a low arched portal, outside the church, in a dark nook behind a column; and had such great iron hinges, and such a monstrous lock, that there was more hinge and lock ...
— The Chimes • Charles Dickens


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