Dark

More definitions of "dark":

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

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

• (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"

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

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

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

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

• (adj): Having skin rich in melanin pigments.
  Example: "The dark races"; "dark-skinned peoples"
  Synonyms: colored, coloured, dark-skinned

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

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

• (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

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

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

• (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

Famous quotes containing the word dark:

“Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

“The mind too closes as it were. As the window might close of a dark empty room.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“The inhabitants of earth behold commonly but the dark and shadowy under side of heaven’s pavement; it is only when seen at a favorable angle in the horizon, morning or evening, that some faint streaks of the rich lining of the clouds are revealed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)