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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



... as I approached the hillock on which the ruin stands, I observed, among the beautiful flowers, the blooming cacti, and the dwarf bushes of the desert, what were apparently numbers of dark-brown boulders. On closer examination, it proved that there is really not a single rock, hardly even a pebble, on this hillock; all these apparent boulders are ponderous fossils which have slowly accumulated or washed out on the surface from a great dinosaur bed beneath. A ...
— Dinosaurs - With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections • William Diller Matthew

... knees and feet. The edges of the beds—gentle waves that never degenerate to straightness—are thickly bordered with mignonette. Not an audacious thing, not a red blossom nor a strong yellow one, nor one broad leaf, nor any mass of dense or dark foliage, comes into view until one reaches a side of the dwelling. But there at once he finds the second phase in a crescendo of floral colors. The base of the house, and especially those empty eye-sockets, ...
— The Amateur Garden • George W. Cable

... midst of tribulations. The Spirit of God and of glory rests upon the devoted Christian in affliction's furnace, and a bright, blessed hope of great eternal reward ever cheers and nerves his faltering soul. He, who, in this dark world will suffer with the Savior shall share ...
— The Gospel Day • Charles Ebert Orr

... his temper. 'It's the way you go on,' he screamed; but the din was now so great, not even he could be heard. He stood there waving his arms and moving his lips while his dark eyes glittered. ...
— The Convert • Elizabeth Robins

... in Sumatra, when the chief officer and myself observed a dark line out at sea which bore the appearance of a tidal wave. While we were remarking this, the captain (who was just then taking his bath) rushed on to the bridge, and telegraphed to the engine-room to steam ...
— A Visit to Java - With an Account of the Founding of Singapore • W. Basil Worsfold


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