dark
1. absence of light or illumination (Freq. 9) • Syn: darkness • Ant: light • Hypernyms: illumination • Hyponyms: night, total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black, blackout, brownout, dimout, semidarkness 2. absence of moral or spiritual values (Freq. 5) - the powers of darkness • Syn: iniquity, wickedness, darkness • Derivationally related forms: dark (for: darkness), wicked (for: wickedness) • Hypernyms: condition, status • Hyponyms: foulness 3. an unilluminated area (Freq. 4) - he moved off into the darkness • Syn: darkness, shadow • Derivationally related forms: shadow (for: shadow), dark (for: darkness) • Hypernyms: scene 4. the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside (Freq. 3) • Syn: night, nighttime • Ant: day (for: night) • Derivationally related forms: nightly (for: night) • Hypernyms: time period, period of time, period • Hyponyms: weeknight, wedding night • Part Holonyms: day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day • Part Meronyms: evening, late-night hour, midnight, small hours, lights-out 5. an unenlightened state (Freq. 2) - he was in the dark concerning their intentions - his lectures dispelled the darkness • Syn: darkness • Derivationally related forms: dark (for: darkness) • Hypernyms: unenlightenment
1. devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black (Freq. 49) - sitting in a dark corner - a dark day - dark shadows - dark as the inside of a black cat • Ant: light • Similar to: Acheronian, Acherontic, Stygian, aphotic, black, pitch-black, pitch-dark, caliginous, Cimmerian, crepuscular, darkened, darkening, darkling, dim, subdued, dusky, twilight, twilit, glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky, lightless, lightless, unlighted, unlit, semidark, tenebrous, tenebrific, tenebrious • Derivationally related forms: darkness • Attrubites: light, lightness 2. (used of color) having a dark hue (Freq. 27) - dark green - dark glasses - dark colors like wine red or navy blue • Ant: light • Similar to: darkish • See Also: black • Derivationally related forms: darkness • Attrubites: value 3. brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes) (Freq. 13) - dark eyes • Similar to: brunet, brunette • Derivationally related forms: darkness 4. stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable (Freq. 5) - 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 • Syn: black, sinister • Similar to: evil • Derivationally related forms: darkness 5. secret - keep it dark • Similar to: concealed • Derivationally related forms: darkness 6. 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 • Syn: dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen • Similar to: ill-natured • Derivationally related forms: sullenness (for: sullen), sourness (for: sour), moroseness (for: morose), moodiness (for: moody), glumness (for: glum) 7. 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 • Syn: benighted • Similar to: unenlightened • Derivationally related forms: darkness 8. 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 • Syn: obscure • Similar to: incomprehensible, uncomprehensible • Derivationally related forms: obscurity (for: obscure), obscureness (for: obscure), darkness 9. having skin rich in melanin pigments - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - dark-skinned peoples • Syn: colored, coloured, dark-skinned, non-white • Similar to: black • Derivationally related forms: darkness, colored (for: colored) 10. 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 • Syn: blue, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary • Similar to: depressing, cheerless, uncheerful • Derivationally related forms: dreariness (for: dreary) 11. not giving performances; closed - the theater is dark on Mondays • Similar to: inactive
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