What is dark?

More definitions of "dark":

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

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

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

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

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

• (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

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

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

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

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

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

• (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

Famous quotes containing the word dark:

“The sea
takes on that desperate tone
of dark that wives put on
when all their love is done.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“If this be love, to clothe me with dark thoughts,
Haunting untrodden paths to wail apart;
My pleasures horror, music tragic notes,
Tears in mine eyes and sorrow at my heart.
If this be love, to live a living death,
Then do I love and draw this weary breath.”
—Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)

“An American, a Negro ... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)