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dark

noun

1 dark

Absence of light or illumination.

synonym: darkness.

Dutch: donkerheid, donker, donkerte, duister, duisternis
Polish: mrok, ciemność, ciemń, ciemno, szarzyzna, szarość, ciemnia, cień, pomroka, mroczność ... show more

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. ... show more

Roget 526: latent; lurking etc. v.; secret etc. 528; occult; implied etc. v.; dormant; abeyant.    ... show more

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, ... show more

Roget 528: concealed etc. v.; hidden; secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark; cryptic, cryptical; private, ... show more

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

Secret.

6 dark

Showing a brooding ill humor:
— A dark scowl.

synonyms: dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen.

Polish: posępny, chmurny, ponury

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.    ... show more

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; ... show more

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, ... show more

Roget 422: dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark 421.    faint, shadowed forth; glassy; cloudy; misty etc. ... show more

Roget 421: dark, darksome, darkling; obscure, tenebrious, sombrous, pitch dark, pitchy, pitch black; caliginous; black etc. (in color) 431.    ... show more

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 ... show more

Moby thesaurus: Egyptian darkness, Erebus, Gothicism, Stygian, ableptical, abominable, abstruse, adiaphanous, age of ignorance, amaurotic, amoral, amorphous, amorphousness, apocalyptic, arcane, arrant, atramentous, atrocious, bad, baleful ... show more.

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