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Definition of 'dark'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) dark
having very little or no light:
a dark room.

2.  dark
radiating, admitting, or reflecting little light:
a dark color.

3.  dark
approaching black in hue:
a dark brown.

4.  dark
not pale or fair; swarthy:
a dark complexion.

5.  dark
brunette; dark-colored:
dark eyebrows.

6.  dark
having brunette hair.

7.  dark
(of coffee) containing only a small amount of milk or cream.

8.  dark
gloomy; dismal:
the dark days of the war.

9.  dark
sullen; frowning:
a dark expression.

10.  dark
evil; iniquitous; wicked:
a dark plot.

11.  dark
destitute of knowledge or culture; unenlightened.

12.  dark
hard to understand; obscure.

13.  dark
hidden; secret.

14.  dark
(of a theater) offering no performances; closed.

15.  dark
(of an l-sound) pronounced with the back of the tongue raised, giving back-vowel resonance, as the l in
full.

16. (n.) dark
the absence of light.

17.  dark
night; nightfall:
to come home after dark.

18.  dark
a dark place.

19.  dark
a dark color.

20. (v.i.) dark
to make or grow dark; darken.

21.  dark
in ignorance; uninformed.

Etymology: (bef. 1000; ME derk, OE deorc)

Definition of 'dark'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) dark, darkness
absence of light or illumination

2. (noun) iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark
absence of moral or spiritual values
"the powers of darkness"

3. (noun) darkness, dark, shadow
an unilluminated area
"he moved off into the darkness"

4. (noun) night, nighttime, dark
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

5. (adj) dark, darkness
an unenlightened state
"he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness"

6. (adj) 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"

7. (adj) dark
(used of color) having a dark hue
"dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue"

8. (adj) dark
brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
"dark eyes"

9. (adj) black, dark, sinister
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

10. (adj) dark
secret
"keep it dark"

11. (adj) dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
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"

12. (adj) benighted, 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"

13. (adj) dark, obscure
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"

14. (adj) blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
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"

15. (adj) colored, coloured, dark, dark-skinned, non-white
having skin rich in melanin pigments
"National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "dark-skinned peoples"

16. (adj) dark
not giving performances; closed
"the theater is dark on Mondays"

Definition of 'dark'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) dark
with little or no light
too dark to see in the room; a very dark night

2.  dark
get dark
to become dark outside
It'll be getting dark soon.

3.  dark
closer to black than white
He wore dark clothes.; dark blue/green/brown/gray

4.  dark
the time when it becomes night
The fireworks start at dark.; Be home before dark.

5.  dark
in the dark about
having no knowledge of
I was completely in the dark about all the changes.

Definition of 'dark'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) dark
destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion

2. (adj) dark
not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden

3. (adj) dark
destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant

4. (adj) dark
evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed

5. (adj) dark
foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious

6. (adj) dark
deprived of sight; blind

7. (noun) dark
absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light

8. (noun) dark
the condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy

9. (noun) dark
a dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted

10. (verb) dark
to darken to obscure

Translation of 'dark'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: without light a dark room; It's getting dark; the dark (= not cheerful) side.
Afrikaans: donker	Arabic: مُظْلِم	Bulgarian: тъмен
Brazilian: escuro	Czech: tmavý	German: dunkel
Danish: mørk	Greek: σκοτεινός	Spanish: oscuro
Estonian: pime	Farsi: تاریک	Finnish: pimeä
French: noir	Hebrew: אָפֵל, חָשוּך	Hindi: अंधेरा
Croatian: mračan, taman	Hungarian: sötét	Indonesian: gelap
Icelandic: myrkur, dimmur	Italian: scuro	Japanese: 暗い
Korean: 어두운	Lithuanian: tamsus	Latvian: tumšs
Malay: gelap	Dutch: donker	Norwegian: mørk
Polish: ciemny	Persian: تاریک	Pashto: تياره، تور، پټ مبهم، بې ن
Portuguese: escuro	Romanian: întunecat	Russian: тёмный
Slovak: tmavý	Slovenian: temen	Serbian: mračan
Swedish: mörk	Thai: มืด	Turkish: karanlık
Taiwanese: 黑暗的	Ukrainian: темний	Urdu: تاریک
Vietnamese: tối tăm	Chinese: 黑暗的
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