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dark (därk)

adj. dark·er, dark·est

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.

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 dark

1. 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.]

darkish adj.

darkly adv.

darkness 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 darkness illumination - the degree of visibility of your environment night - darkness; "it vanished into the night" lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness, black, blackness - total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" brownout, dimout, blackout - darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) semidarkness - partial darkness 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" iniquity, wickedness, 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" darkness, shadow 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 outside night, nighttime period, 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" 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours - time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day" 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" late-night hour - the latter part of night midnight - 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night; "young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight" small hours - the hours just after midnight lights-out - a prescribed bedtime 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" darkness unenlightenment - a lack of understanding
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 Hardy sinister, black evil - 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" moody, morose, glowering, sullen, glum, saturnine, dour, sour 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" benighted 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" obscure uncomprehensible, incomprehensible - difficult to understand; "the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible"- A. Einstein
	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" dismal, drear, dreary, disconsolate, gloomy, dingy, drab, sorry, grim, blue 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" dark-skinned, non-white, colored, coloured 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 2. black, brunette, ebony, dark-skinned, sable, dusky, swarthy << OPPOSITE fair

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

noun 7. darkness, shadows, gloom, dusk, obscurity, murk, dimness, semi-darkness, murkiness

noun 8. night, twilight, evening, evo Austral. (slang) dusk, night-time, nightfall

Translations

dark [dɑːk] adj → oscuro; [hair, complexion] → moreno;

(fig) (= cheerless); triste, sombrío

n (gen) → oscuridad f (= night); tinieblas fpl;

dark chocolate → chocolate m amargo;

it is/is getting dark → es de noche/está oscureciendo;

in the dark about (fig) → ignorante de;

after dark → después del anochecer

dark [dɑːk] adj [night, room] → obscur(e) → sombre; [colour, complexion] → foncé(e) → sombre (fig); sombre

n in the dark → dans le noir;

to be in the dark about (fig) → ignorer tout de;

after dark → après la tombée de la nuit;

it is/is getting dark → il fait nuit/commence à faire nuit

dark [dɑːk] adj → dunkel;

(look) → finster

n in the dark → im Dunkeln;

to be in the dark about (fig) → keine Ahnung haben von;

after dark → nach Einbruch der Dunkelheit;

it is/is getting dark → es ist/wird dunkel;

dark chocolate → Zartbitterschokolade f

dark [dɑːk] adj [night, room] → buio/a, scuro/a; [colour, complexion] → scuro/a;

(fig) → cupo/a, tetro/a, nero/a

n in the dark → al buio;

it is/is getting dark → è/si sta facendo buio;

in the dark about (fig) → all'oscuro di;

after dark → a notte fatta;

dark chocolate → cioccolata amara

dark

adj dark [daːk]

1 without light a dark room; It's getting dark; the dark (= not cheerful) side.donkerمُظْلِمтъменtmavýmørkdunkelσκοτεινόςoscuropimeتاریکpimeänoirאָפֵל, חָשוּךअंधेराmračan, tamansötétgelapmyrkur, dimmurscuro暗い어두운tamsustumšsgelapdonkermørkciemnyescuroîntunecatтёмныйtmavýtemenmračanmörkมืดkaranlık黑暗的темнийتاریکtối 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.donkerداكِن، غامِقтъменtmavýmørk; mørke-dunkelσκούροςoscurotume, mustتیرهtummafoncéכֵּהֶהगहराtamansötétkehitamandökkurscuro黒い거무스름한, 검은tamsustumšs; patumšshitamdonkermørkciemnyescuroînchis (la culoare)тёмный;смуглыйtmavýtementamanmörkคล้ำesmer黑色的，深色的смуглявийگہرا ، سیاح ، سانولاđen đen黑色的，深色的

3 evil and usually secret dark deeds; a dark secret.donkerشِرّير، سِرّي، مُبْهَمтъменzlý, temnýdysterdunkelκαταχθόνιοςmisterioso, oscuro, secretotumeخبیث؛ پنهانsynkkänoirאָפֵל וִּמסתוֹרִיगुप्तmračan, skrivensötétjahatleynilegur, dulinnoscuro腹黒い음흉한, 감춰진juodas, baisus(par nodomu u.tml.) ļauns; slepensrahsiaduistermørk, dyster; hemmeligciemnysinistrotenebrosтёмныйzlovestnýtemenmračanmörk, dunkelชั่วร้ายkötü隱秘的нечистийبد ، خفیہám muội隐秘的

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, donkerteظُلْمَه، ظَلامтъмнинаtma, setmění; nevědomostmørke; mørkets frembrud; uvidenheddie Dunkelheitσκοτάδιoscuridadpime(dus)تاریکیpimeänoirחוֹשֶׁךअंधेराmrak, tamasötétséggelapmyrkuroscurità, buio暗がり어둠, 황혼, 무지tamsatumsa; neziņagelapdonkermørkeciemnośćescuroîntunericтемнота; неведениеtma, nevedomosťtemamrakmörkerช่วงเวลาดึก; ความมืดkaranlık黑暗темрява, темнотаاندھیراsự tối tăm黑暗

v ˈdarken

to make or become dark or darker. verdonkerيُظْلِم، يُصْبِحُ داكِناпотъмнявамztmavnout, zatemnitblive mørk; formørke; gøre mørkverdunkelnσκοτεινιάζωoscurecerpimendama, pimenemaتاریک شدن؛ تیره شدنpimetä, pimentääs'assombrirלהאפיל, להחשיךकाला हो जानाzatamniti, zamračitielsötétít; elsötétülmenggelapkandekkja; verða dimmuroscurarsi暗くする어두워지다; 어둡게 하다tamsėti, tamsintisatumst; aptumšotmenggelapkanverdonkeren, donkerder wordenmørkne, formørkeściemniać, ciemniećescurecera se întunecaзатемнять; темнетьstmievať sa, zachmúriť sazatemnitizamračitimörkna, förmörkas, mörkläggaทำให้มืดkarar(t)mak使變暗темніти; затемнюватиسیاہ کرنا ، سیاہ ہو جاناlàm cho cái gì trở thành tối使变暗

n ˈdarkness

the state of being dark. donker, donkerteظُلْمَه، ظَلامтъмнинаtma, temnotamørkedie Dunkelheitσκοτεινιάoscuridadpimedusتاریکیpimeysobscuritéאֲפֵילָה, חֲשֵיכָהअंधकार, धुंधलापन, अज्ञानताtama, tminasötétségkegelapandimma, myrkuroscuritàやみ어둠tamsatumsa; neziņakegelapandonkermørke, mørkhetciemnośćescuridãoîntuneric, obscuritateтемнотаtmatemazamračenostmörkerความมืดkaranlık黑暗темнота; темряваتاریکیtình trạng tối黑暗

keep it dark

to keep something a secret They're engaged to be married but they want to keep it dark.iets geheim houيُبقي الشّيء سِراпазя в тайнаchovat v tajnostiholde hemmeligtetwas geheimhaltenκρατώ κτ. μυστικόmantener algo en secretoasja salajas hoidmaمحرمانه نگه داشتنpitää asia salassagarder secretלַתֵת לְמִישֶהוּ לְגָשֵש בַּאֲפֵילָהगहरे अधंरे में, अज्ञानतावशčuvati tajnueltitkolmerahasiakanhalda leyndutenere qualcosa segreto秘密にする비밀로 하다laikyti paslaptyjeturēt kaut ko slepenībārahsiageheim houdenholde hemmeligtrzymać w tajemnicyàs escondidas agira ţine secretдержать в секрете(za)tajiťskrivatitajitihålla det hemligtลึกลับsır olarak saklamak保守秘密тримати в секретіپوشیدہ رکھناgiữ bí mật保守秘密

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