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dark (därk)adj. dark·er, dark·est 1. a. Lacking or having very little light: a dark corner. b. Lacking brightness: a dark day. 2. Reflecting only a small fraction of incident light. 3. Of a shade tending toward black in comparison with other shades. Used of a color. 4. Having a complexion that is not fair; swarthy. 5. Served without milk or cream: dark coffee. 6. Characterized by gloom; dismal: took a dark view of the consequences. 7. Sullen or threatening: a dark scowl. 8. Difficult to understand; obscure: stories that are large in scope and dark in substance. 9. Concealed or secret; mysterious: "the dark mysteries of Africa and the fabled wonders of the East" W. Bruce Lincoln. 10. Lacking enlightenment, knowledge, or culture: a dark age in the history of education. 11. Exhibiting or stemming from evil characteristics or forces; sinister: "churned up dark undercurrents of ethnic and religious hostility" Peter Maas. 12. Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor. 13. Having richness or depth: a dark, melancholy vocal tone. 14. Not giving performances; closed: The movie theater is dark on Mondays. 15. Linguistics Pronounced with the back of the tongue raised toward the velum. Used of the sound (l) in words like full. n.1. Absence of light. 2. A place having little or no light. 3. Night; nightfall: home before dark. 4. A deep hue or color. Idiom: in the dark1. In secret: high-level decisions made in the dark. 2. In a state of ignorance; uninformed: kept me in the dark about their plans.
[Middle English derk, from Old English deorc.]
dark ish adj. dark ly adv. dark ness n. Synonyms: dark, dim, murky, dusky, obscure, opaque, shady, shadowy These adjectives indicate the absence of light or clarity. Dark, the most widely applicable, can refer to insufficiency of illumination for seeing (a dark evening), deepness of shade or color (dark brown), absence of cheer (a dark, somber mood), or lack of rectitude (a dark past). Dim suggests lack of clarity of outline: "life and the memory of it cramped,/dim, on a piece of Bristol board" Elizabeth Bishop. It can also apply to a source of light to indicate insufficiency: "storied Windows richly dight,/Casting a dim religious light" John Milton. Murky implies darkness, often extreme, such as that produced by smoke or fog: "The path was altogether indiscernible in the murky darkness which surrounded them" Sir Walter Scott. Dusky suggests the dimness that is characteristic of diminishing light, as at twilight: "The dusky night rides down the sky,/And ushers in the morn" Henry Fielding. Also, it often refers to deepness of shade of a color: "A dusky blush rose to her cheek" Edith Wharton. Obscure usually means unclear to the mind or senses, but it can refer to physical darkness: the obscure rooms of a shuttered mansion. Opaque means incapable of being penetrated by light: an opaque window shade ; figuratively it applies to something that is unintelligible: opaque philosophical arguments. Shady refers literally to what is sheltered from light, especially sunlight (a shady grove of pines) or figuratively to what is of questionable honesty (shady business deals). Shadowy also implies obstructed light (a shadowy path) but may suggest shifting illumination and indistinctness: "[He] retreated from the limelight to the shadowy fringe of music history" Charles Sherman. It can also refer to something that seems to lack substance and is mysterious or sinister: a shadowy figure in a black cape. |
dark Adjective 1. having little or no light 2. (of a colour) reflecting little light: dark brown 3. (of hair or skin) brown or black 4. (of thoughts or ideas) gloomy or sad 5. sinister or evil: a dark deed 6. sullen or angry: a dark scowl 7. secret or mysterious: keep it dark Noun 1. absence of light; darkness 2. night or nightfall 3. in the dark in ignorance [Old English deorc] darkly adv darkness n
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Noun | 1. | dark - absence of light or illumination night - darkness; "it vanished into the night" brownout, dimout, blackout - darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) lighting, light - having abundant light or illumination; "they played as long as it was light"; "as long as the lighting was good" | | 2. | dark - absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness"condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" foulness - disgusting wickedness and immorality; "he understood the foulness of sin"; "his display of foulness deserved severe punishment"; "mouths which speak such foulness must be cleansed" | | 3. | dark - an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness"scene - the place where some action occurs; "the police returned to the scene of the crime" | | 4. | dark - the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outsideperiod, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" weeknight - any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday evening - the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way; "an evening at the opera" midnight - 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night; "young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight" wedding night - the night after the wedding when bride and groom sleep together | | 5. | dark - an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness" | | Adj. | 1. | dark - 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"light - characterized by or emitting light; "a room that is light when the shutters are open"; "the inside of the house was airy and light" | | 2. | dark - (used of color) having a dark hue; "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue"black - being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" light-colored, light - (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent; "light blue"; "light colors such as pastels"; "a light-colored powder" | | 3. | dark - brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes); "dark eyes"brunet, brunette - marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes; "a brunette beauty" | | 4. | dark - 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 Hardyevil - morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" | | 5. | dark - secret; "keep it dark"concealed - hidden on any grounds for any motive; "a concealed weapon"; "a concealed compartment in his briefcase" | | 6. | dark - 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"ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition | | 7. | dark - 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"unenlightened - not enlightened; ignorant; "the devices by which unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order" | | 8. | dark - 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" | | 9. | dark - 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"cheerless, depressing, uncheerful - causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" | | 10. | dark - having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "dark-skinned peoples"black - of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. | | 11. | dark - not giving performances; closed; "the theater is dark on Mondays"inactive - lacking activity; lying idle or unused; "an inactive mine"; "inactive accounts"; "inactive machinery" |
dark adjective 1. dim, murky, shady, shadowy, grey, cloudy, dingy, overcast, dusky, unlit, pitch-black, indistinct, poorly lit, sunless, tenebrous, darksome ( literary) pitchy, unilluminated adjective 3. evil, foul, horrible, sinister, infamous, vile, satanic, wicked, atrocious, sinful, hellish, infernal, nefarious, damnable adjective 4. secret, deep, hidden, mysterious, concealed, obscure, mystic, enigmatic, puzzling, occult, arcane, cryptic, abstruse, recondite, Delphic adjective 5. gloomy, sad, grim, miserable, low, bleak, moody, dismal, pessimistic, melancholy, sombre, morbid, glum, mournful, morose, joyless, doleful, cheerless << OPPOSITE cheerful adjective 6. angry, threatening, forbidding, frowning, ominous, dour, scowling, sullen, glum, glowering, sulky
Translationsdark [dɑːk] adj → oscuro; [ hair, complexion] → moreno; it is/is getting dark → es de noche/está oscureciendo; dark [dɑːk] adj → dunkel; dark chocolate → Zartbitterschokolade f dark [dɑːk] adj [ night, room] → buio/a, scuro/a; [ colour, complexion] → scuro/a; it is/is getting dark → è/si sta facendo buio; after dark → a notte fatta; darkadj dark [daːk]1 without light a dark room; It's getting dark; the dark (= not cheerful) side. donker مُظْلِم тъмен tmavý mørk dunkel σκοτεινός oscuro pime تاریک pimeä noir אָפֵל, חָשוּך अंधेरा mračan, taman sötét gelap myrkur, dimmur scuro 暗い 어두운 tamsus tumšs gelap donker mørk ciemny escuro întunecat тёмный tmavý temen mračan mörk มืด karanlık 黑暗的 темний تاریک tối tăm 黑暗的 2 blackish or closer to black than white a dark red colour; a dark (= not very white or fair) complexion; Her hair is dark. donker داكِن، غامِق тъмен tmavý mørk; mørke- dunkel σκούρος oscuro tume, must تیره tumma foncé כֵּהֶה गहरा taman sötét kehitaman dökkur scuro 黒い 거무스름한, 검은 tamsus tumšs; patumšs hitam donker mørk ciemny escuro închis (la culoare) тёмный;смуглый tmavý temen taman mörk คล้ำ esmer 黑色的,深色的 смуглявий گہرا ، سیاح ، سانولا đen đen 黑色的,深色的 3 evil and usually secret dark deeds; a dark secret. donker شِرّير، سِرّي، مُبْهَم тъмен zlý, temný dyster dunkel καταχθόνιος misterioso, oscuro, secreto tume خبیث؛ پنهان synkkä noir אָפֵל וִּמסתוֹרִי गुप्त mračan, skriven sötét jahat leynilegur, dulinn oscuro 腹黒い 음흉한, 감춰진 juodas, baisus (par nodomu u.tml.) ļauns; slepens rahsia duister mørk, dyster; hemmelig ciemny sinistro tenebros тёмный zlovestný temen mračan mörk, dunkel ชั่วร้าย kötü 隱秘的 нечистий بد ، خفیہ ám muội 隐秘的 n absence of light in the dark; afraid of the dark; He never goes out after dark; We are in the dark (= we have no knowledge) about what is happening. donker, donkerte ظُلْمَه، ظَلام тъмнина tma, setmění; nevědomost mørke; mørkets frembrud; uvidenhed die Dunkelheit σκοτάδι oscuridad pime(dus) تاریکی pimeä noir חוֹשֶׁך अंधेरा mrak, tama sötétség gelap myrkur oscurità, buio 暗がり 어둠, 황혼, 무지 tamsa tumsa; neziņa gelap donker mørke ciemność escuro întuneric темнота; неведение tma, nevedomosť tema mrak mörker ช่วงเวลาดึก; ความมืด karanlık 黑暗 темрява, темнота اندھیرا sự tối tăm 黑暗 v ˈdarkento make or become dark or darker. verdonker يُظْلِم، يُصْبِحُ داكِنا потъмнявам ztmavnout, zatemnit blive mørk; formørke; gøre mørk verdunkeln σκοτεινιάζω oscurecer pimendama, pimenema تاریک شدن؛ تیره شدن pimetä, pimentää s'assombrir להאפיל, להחשיך काला हो जाना zatamniti, zamračiti elsötétít; elsötétül menggelapkan dekkja; verða dimmur oscurarsi 暗くする 어두워지다; 어둡게 하다 tamsėti, tamsinti satumst; aptumšot menggelapkan verdonkeren, donkerder worden mørkne, formørke ściemniać, ciemnieć escurecer a se întuneca затемнять; темнеть stmievať sa, zachmúriť sa zatemniti zamračiti mörkna, förmörkas, mörklägga ทำให้มืด karar(t)mak 使變暗 темніти; затемнювати سیاہ کرنا ، سیاہ ہو جانا làm cho cái gì trở thành tối 使变暗 n ˈdarknessthe state of being dark. donker, donkerte ظُلْمَه، ظَلام тъмнина tma, temnota mørke die Dunkelheit σκοτεινιά oscuridad pimedus تاریکی pimeys obscurité אֲפֵילָה, חֲשֵיכָה अंधकार, धुंधलापन, अज्ञानता tama, tmina sötétség kegelapan dimma, myrkur oscurità やみ 어둠 tamsa tumsa; neziņa kegelapan donker mørke, mørkhet ciemność escuridão întuneric, obscuritate темнота tma tema zamračenost mörker ความมืด karanlık 黑暗 темнота; темрява تاریکی tình trạng tối 黑暗 keep it darkto keep something a secret They're engaged to be married but they want to keep it dark. iets geheim hou يُبقي الشّيء سِرا пазя в тайна chovat v tajnosti holde hemmeligt etwas geheimhalten κρατώ κτ. μυστικό mantener algo en secreto asja salajas hoidma محرمانه نگه داشتن pitää asia salassa garder secret לַתֵת לְמִישֶהוּ לְגָשֵש בַּאֲפֵילָה गहरे अधंरे में, अज्ञानतावश čuvati tajnu eltitkol merahasiakan halda leyndu tenere qualcosa segreto 秘密にする 비밀로 하다 laikyti paslaptyje turēt kaut ko slepenībā rahsia geheim houden holde hemmelig trzymać w tajemnicy às escondidas agir a ţine secret держать в секрете (za)tajiť skrivati tajiti hålla det hemligt ลึกลับ sır olarak saklamak 保守秘密 тримати в секреті پوشیدہ رکھنا giữ bí mật 保守秘密
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