| Noun | 1. | dark - absence of light or illuminationnight - darkness; "it vanished into the night" brownout, dimout, blackout - darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) 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"condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" | |
| 3. | dark - an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness"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 outsideperiod, 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" day, mean solar day, solar day, 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" midnight - 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night; "young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight" 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" | |
| Adj. | 1. | dark - devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness; shadowed or black or somber-colored; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "the theater is dark on Mondays"; "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, achromatic - 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 Hardyevil, wicked - morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" | |
| 5. | 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"cheerless, uncheerful - lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" | |
| 6. | dark - secret; "keep it dark"; "the dark mysteries of Africa and the fabled wonders of the East"concealed - concealed or hidden on any grounds for any motive; "a concealed weapon"; "a concealed compartment in his briefcase" | |
| 7. | 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"ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition; "an ill-natured disagreeable old man" | |
| 8. | 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"unenlightened - not enlightened; ignorant; "the devices by which unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order" | |
| 9. | 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" | |
| 10. | dark - having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "the dark races"; "dark-skinned peoples"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" | |