What is dark?

More definitions of "dark":

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (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

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

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word dark:

“The elaborate star-light throws a reflection
On the dark stream,
Till all the eddies gleam;
And thereupon there comes that scream
From terrified, invisible beast or bird:
Image of poignant recollection.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Such as boxed
Their feelings properly, complete to tags
A box for dark men and a box for Other
Would often find the contents had been scrambled.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“War is no strife
To the dark house and the detested wife.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)