dark
noun
1 dark
Absence of light or illumination.
synonym: darkness.
Dutch: donkerheid, donker, donkerte, duister, duisternis
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2 dark
Absence of moral or spiritual values:
— The powers of darkness.
synonyms: darkness, wickedness.
Dutch: misdaad
3 dark
An unilluminated area:
— He moved off into the darkness.
synonyms: darkness, shadow.
4 dark
The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside.
synonyms: night, nighttime.
Dutch: nacht
Polish: noc
5 dark
An unenlightened state:
— He was in the dark concerning their intentions.
— His lectures dispelled the darkness.
synonym: darkness.
Polish: ciemnota
adjective
1 dark
Devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black.
Roget 940:
dishonest,
dishonorable;
unconscientious,
unscrupulous;
fraudulent
etc.
545;
knavish;
disgraceful
etc.
(disreputable)
974;
wicked
etc.
945.
false-hearted,
disingenuous;
unfair,
one-sided;
double,
double-hearted,
double-tongued,
double-faced;
timeserving†,
crooked,
tortuous,
insidious,
Machiavelian,
dark,
slippery;
fishy;
perfidious,
treacherous,
perjured.
infamous,
arrant,
foul,
base,
vile,
ignominious,
blackguard.
contemptible,
unrespectable,
abject,
mean,
shabby,
little,
paltry,
dirty,
scurvy,
scabby,
sneaking,
groveling,
scrubby,
rascally,
pettifogging;
beneath one.
low-minded,
low-thoughted†;
base-minded.
undignified,
indign†;
unbecoming,
unbeseeming†,
unbefitting;
derogatory,
degrading;
infra dignitatem [Lat.],
beneath one's dignity;
ungentlemanly,
ungentlemanlike;
unknightly†,
unchivalric†,
unmanly,
unhandsome;
recreant,
inglorious.
corrupt,
venal;
debased,
mongrel.
faithless,
of bad faith,
false,
unfaithful,
disloyal;
untrustworthy;
trustless,
trothless†;
lost to shame,
dead to honor;
barratrous.
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Roget 526:
latent;
lurking
etc.
v.;
secret
etc.
528;
occult;
implied
etc.
v.;
dormant;
abeyant.
unapparent,
unknown,
unseen
etc.
441;
in the background;
invisible
etc.
447;
indiscoverable†,
dark;
impenetrable
etc.
(unintelligible)
519;
unspied†,
unsuspected.
unsaid,
unwritten,
unpublished,
unbreathed†,
untalked of†,
untold
etc.
527,
unsung,
unexposed,
unproclaimed†,
undisclosed
etc.
529,
unexpressed;
not expressed,
tacit.
undeveloped,
solved,
unexplained,
untraced†,
undiscovered
etc.
480.1,
untracked,
unexplored,
uninvented†.
indirect,
crooked,
inferential;
by inference,
by implication;
implicit;
constructive;
allusive,
covert,
muffled;
steganographic†;
understood,
underhand,
underground;
delitescent†,
concealed
etc.
528.
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Roget 442:
blind;
eyeless,
sightless,
visionless;
dark;
stone-blind,
sand-blind,
stark-blind;
undiscerning†;
dimsighted
etc.
443.
blind as a bat,
blind as a buzzard,
blind as a beetle,
blind as a mole,
blind as an owl;
wall-eyed.
blinded
etc.
v..
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Roget 528:
concealed
etc.
v.;
hidden;
secret,
recondite,
mystic,
cabalistic,
occult,
dark;
cryptic,
cryptical†;
private,
privy,
in petto,
auricular,
clandestine,
close,
inviolate;
tortuous.
behind a screen
etc.
530;
undercover,
under an eclipse;
in ambush,
in hiding,
in disguise;
in a cloud,
in a fog,
in a mist,
in a haze,
in a dark corner;
in the shade,
in the dark;
clouded,
wrapped in clouds,
wrapt in clouds†;
invisible
etc.
447;
buried,
underground,
perdu [Fr.];
secluded
etc.
893.
undisclosed
etc.
529,
untold
etc.
527;
covert
etc.
(latent)
526;
untraceable;
mysterious
etc.
(unintelligible)
519.
irrevealable†,
inviolable;
confidential;
esoteric;
not to be spoken of;
unmentionable.
obreptitious†,
furtive,
stealthy,
feline;
skulking
etc.
v.;
surreptitious,
underhand,
hole and corner;
sly
etc.
(cunning)
702;
secretive,
evasive;
reserved,
reticent,
uncommunicative,
buttoned up;
close,
close as wax;
taciturn
etc.
585.
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2 dark
used of color Having a dark hue.
Polish: ciemny
3 dark
Brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes).
Polish: śniady
4 dark
Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable:
— Darth Vader of the dark side.
— A dark purpose.
— Dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility.
synonyms: black, sinister.
5 dark
6 dark
7 dark
Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture:
— The dark ages.
— A dark age in the history of education.
synonym: benighted.
8 dark
Marked by difficulty of style or expression:
— Much that was dark is now quite clear to me.
synonym: obscure.
Roget 519:
unintelligible,
unaccountable,
undecipherable,
undiscoverable,
unknowable,
unfathomable;
incognizable†,
inexplicable,
inscrutable;
inapprehensible†,
incomprehensible;
insolvable†,
insoluble;
impenetrable.
illegible,
as Greek to one,
unexplained,
paradoxical;
enigmatic,
enigmatical,
puzzling
(secret)
533;
indecipherable.
obscure,
dark,
muddy,
clear as mud,
seen through a mist,
dim,
nebulous,
shrouded in mystery;
opaque,
dense;
undiscernible
etc.
(invisible)
447†;
misty
etc.
(opaque)
426;
hidden
etc.
528;
latent
etc.
526.
indefinite,
garbled
etc.
(indistinct)
447;
perplexed
etc.
(confused)
59;
undetermined,
vague,
loose,
ambiguous;
mysterious;
mystic,
mystical;
acroamatic†,
acroamatical†;
metempirical;
transcendental;
occult,
recondite,
abstruse,
crabbed.
inconceivable,
inconceptible†;
searchless†;
above comprehension,
beyond comprehension,
past comprehension;
beyond one's depth;
unconceived.
inexpressible,
undefinable,
incommunicable.
unpredictable,
unforeseeable.
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Roget 447:
invisible,
imperceptible;
undiscernible†,
indiscernible;
unapparent,
non-apparent;
out of sight,
not in sight;
a perte de vue [Fr.];
behind the scenes,
behind the curtain;
viewless,
sightless;
inconspicuous,
unconspicuous†;
unseen
etc.
(see)
etc.
441;
covert
etc.
(latent)
526;
eclipsed,
under an eclipse.
dim
etc.
(faint)
422;
mysterious,
dark,
obscure,
confused;
indistinct,
indistinguishable;
shadowy,
indefinite,
undefined;
ill-defined,
ill-marked;
blurred,
fuzzy,
out of focus;
misty
etc.
(opaque)
426;
delitescent†.
hidden,
obscured,
covered,
veiled
(concealed)
528.
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9 dark
Causing dejection:
— The dark days of the war.
— A dark gloomy day.
synonyms: blue, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry.
Roget 837:
cheerless,
joyless,
spiritless;
uncheerful,
uncheery†;
unlively†;
unhappy
etc.
828;
melancholy,
dismal,
somber,
dark,
gloomy,
triste [Fr.],
clouded,
murky,
lowering,
frowning,
lugubrious,
funereal,
mournful,
lamentable,
dreadful.
dreary,
flat;
dull,
dull as a beetle,
dull as ditchwater†;
depressing
etc.
v..
melancholy as a gib cat;"
oppressed with melancholy,
a prey to melancholy;
downcast,
downhearted;
down in the mouth,
down in one's luck;
heavy-hearted;
in the dumps,
down in the dumps,
in the suds,
in the sulks,
in the doldrums;
in doleful dumps,
in bad humor;
sullen;
mumpish†,
dumpish,
mopish†,
moping;
moody,
glum;
sulky
etc.
(discontented)
832;
out of sorts,
out of humor,
out of heart,
out of spirits;
ill at ease,
low spirited,
in low spirits,
a cup too low;
weary
etc.
841;
discouraged,
disheartened;
desponding;
chapfallen†,
chopfallen†,
jaw fallen,
crest fallen.
sad,
pensive,
penseroso [It],
tristful†;
dolesome†,
doleful;
woebegone;
lacrymose,
lachrymose,
in tears,
melancholic,
hypped†,
hypochondriacal,
bilious,
jaundiced,
atrabilious†,
saturnine,
splenetic;
lackadaisical.
serious,
sedate,
staid,
stayed;
grave as a judge,
grave as an undertaker,
grave as a mustard pot;
sober,
sober as a judge,
solemn,
demure;
grim;
grim-faced,
grim-visaged;
rueful,
wan,
long-faced.
disconsolate;
unconsolable,
inconsolable;
forlorn,
comfortless,
desolate,
desole [Fr.],
sick at heart;
soul sick,
heart sick;
au desespoir [Fr.];
in despair
etc.
859;
lost.
overcome;
broken down,
borne down,
bowed down;
heartstricken
etc.
(mental suffering)
828†;
cut up,
dashed,
sunk;
unnerved,
unmanned;
down fallen,
downtrodden;
broken-hearted;
careworn.
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Roget 422:
dim,
dull,
lackluster,
dingy,
darkish,
shorn of its beams,
dark
421.
faint,
shadowed forth;
glassy;
cloudy;
misty
etc.
(opaque)
426;
blear;
muggy†,
fuliginous†;
nebulous,
nebular;
obnubilated†,
overcast,
crepuscular,
muddy,
lurid,
leaden,
dun,
dirty;
looming
etc.
v..
pale
etc.
(colorless)
429;
confused
etc.
(invisible)
447.
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Roget 421:
dark,
darksome†,
darkling;
obscure,
tenebrious†,
sombrous†,
pitch dark,
pitchy,
pitch black;
caliginous†;
black
etc.
(in color)
431.
sunless,
lightless
etc.
(sun)
(light),
etc.
423;
somber,
dusky;
unilluminated
etc.
(illuminate)
etc.
420†;
nocturnal;
dingy,
lurid,
gloomy;
murky,
murksome†;
shady,
umbrageous;
overcast
etc.
(dim)
422;
cloudy
etc.
(opaque)
426;
darkened;
etc.
v..
dark as pitch,
dark as a pit,
dark as Erebus [Lat.].
benighted;
noctivagant†,
noctivagous†.
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Polish: mroczny
10 dark
Not giving performances; closed.
verb
Roget 431:
be black
etc.
adj.;
render black
etc.
adj..
blacken,
infuscate†,
denigrate;
blot,
blotch;
smutch†;
smirch;
darken
etc.
421.
black,
sable,
swarthy,
somber,
dark,
inky,
ebony,
ebon,
atramentous†,
jetty;
coal-black,
jet-black;
fuliginous†,
pitchy,
sooty,
swart,
dusky,
dingy,
murky,
Ethiopic;
low-toned,
low in tone;
of the deepest dye.
black as jet
etc.
n.,
black as my hat,
black as a shoe,
black as a tinker's pot,
black as November,
black as thunder,
black as midnight;
nocturnal
etc.
(dark)
421;
nigrescent†;
gray
etc.
432;
obscure
etc.
421.
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