Dark

More definitions of "dark":

• (noun): Absence of moral or spiritual values.
  Synonyms: iniquity, wickedness, darkness

• (adj): Secret.
  Example: "Keep it dark"; "the dark mysteries of Africa and the fabled wonders of the East"

• (noun): Absence of light or illumination.
  Synonyms: darkness

• (adj): Marked by difficulty of style or expression.
  Example: "Much that was dark is now quite clear to me"
  Synonyms: obscure

• (adj): Brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes).
  Example: "Dark eyes"

• (adj): Showing a brooding ill humor.
  Example: "A dark scowl"
  Synonyms: dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen

• (adj): Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture.
  Example: "The dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education"
  Synonyms: benighted

• (adj): Causing dejection.
  Example: "The dark days of the war"; "a dark gloomy day"
  Synonyms: blue, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim

• (noun): An unilluminated area.
  Synonyms: darkness, shadow

• (noun): The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside.
  Synonyms: night, nighttime

• (adj): Devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness; shadowed or black or somber-colored.
  Example: "Sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "the theater is dark on Mondays"; "dark as the inside of a black cat"

• (adj): Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable.
  Example: "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"
  Synonyms: black, sinister

• (adj): (used of color) having a dark hue.
  Example: "Dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue"

• (noun): An unenlightened state.
  Example: "He was in the dark concerning their intentions"
  Synonyms: darkness

• (adj): Not giving performances; closed.
  Example: "The theater is dark on Mondays"

Famous quotes containing the word dark:

“Spite of all the Indian-summer sunlight on the hither side of Hawthorne’s soul, the other side—like the dark half of the physical sphere—is shrouded in a blackness, ten times black.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

““You will go a long journey,
In a strange bed take rest,”
And a dark girl will kiss you....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“When Americans look out on the world, they see nothing but dark and menacing strangers who appear to have no sense of rhythm at all, nor any respect or affection for white people; and white Americans really do not know what to make of all this, except to increase the defense budget.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)