dark
adjective
1. devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
- sitting in a dark corner
- a dark day
- dark shadows
Similar word(s): acheronian, acherontic, stygian, aphotic, black, caliginous, cimmerian, crepuscular, darkened, darkening, darkling, dim, subdued, dusky, twilight, twilit, gloomful, glooming, gloomy, sulky, lightless, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit, semidark, tenebrific, tenebrious, tenebrous
2. (used of color) having a dark hue
- dark green
- dark glasses
- dark colors like wine red or navy blue
Similar word(s): black, darkish
3. brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
- dark eyes
Similar word(s): brunet, brunette
4. stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
- Darth Vader of the dark side
- a dark purpose
- dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility
Similar word(s): evil, black, sinister
5. secret
- keep it dark
Similar word(s): concealed
6. showing a brooding ill humor
- a dark scowl
Similar word(s): dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
7. lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
- the dark ages
- a dark age in the history of education
Similar word(s): unenlightened, benighted
8. marked by difficulty of style or expression
- much that was dark is now quite clear to me
Similar word(s): incomprehensible, uncomprehensible, obscure
9. causing depression
- the dark days of the war
- a dark gloomy day
Similar word(s): cheerless, depressing, uncheerful, blue, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry
10. not giving performances; closed
- the theater is dark on Mondays
Similar word(s): inactive
Sentences with dark as an adjective:
- The room was too dark for reading.
- Dark signals should be treated as all-way stop signs.
- my sister's hair is darker than mine; her skin grew dark with a suntan
- a dark villain; a dark deed
- the Great Depression was a dark time; the film was a dark psychological thriller
- The ending of this book is rather dark.
noun
1. absence of light or illumination
Similar word(s): darkness
Definition categories: state, illumination
2. absence of moral or spiritual values
- the powers of darkness
Similar word(s): darkness, wickedness
Definition categories: state, condition, status
3. an unilluminated area
- he moved off into the darkness
Similar word(s): darkness, shadow
Definition categories: location, scene
4. the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
Similar word(s): night, nighttime
Definition categories: time, period
5. an unenlightened state
- he was in the dark concerning their intentions
- his lectures dispelled the darkness
Similar word(s): darkness
Definition categories: thought
Sentences with dark as a noun:
- Dark surrounds us completely.
- We kept him in the dark.
- The lawyer was left in the dark as to why the jury was dismissed.
- It was after dark before we got to playing baseball.