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| ADJECTIVE | 1 | dark | Devoid of or deficient in light or brightness |
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| 2 | dark | (used of color) having a dark hue | |
| 3 | dark | Brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes) | |
| 4 | dark, black, sinister | Stemming from evil characteristics or forces | |
| 5 | dark, blue, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary | Causing dejection | |
| 6 | dark | Secret | |
| 7 | dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen | Showing a brooding ill humor | |
| 8 | dark, benighted | Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | |
| 9 | dark, obscure | Marked by difficulty of style or expression | |
| 10 | dark, colored, coloured, dark-skinned, non-white | Having skin rich in melanin pigments | |
| 11 | dark | Not giving performances | |
| NOUN | 1 | dark, darkness | Absence of light or illumination |
| 2 | dark, iniquity, wickedness, darkness | Absence of moral or spiritual values | |
| 3 | dark, darkness, shadow | An unilluminated area | |
| 4 | dark, night, nighttime | The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | |
| 5 | dark, darkness | An unenlightened state |
| Sounds | daa'rk |
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| Rhymes | aardvark, arc, ark / Ark, and 37 more rhymes in aark... |
| Meaning | Devoid of or deficient in light or brightness. Shadowed or black. |
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| Examples | "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat" |
| Contrary | light |
| Similar | Acheronian, Acherontic, Stygian; aphotic; black, pitch-black, pitch-dark; caliginous; Cimmerian; crepuscular; darkened; darkening; darkling; darkling; dim, subdued; dusky, twilight, twilit; glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky; lightless, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit; semidark; tenebrous, tenebrific, tenebrious |
| Attribute of | light, lightness |
| Nouns | darkness |
| Adverbs | darkly |
| Meaning | (used of color) having a dark hue. |
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| Examples | "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue" |
| Contrary | light, light-colored |
| Similar | darkish |
| See also | black |
| Attribute of | value |
| Nouns | darkness |
| Meaning | Brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes). |
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| Examples | "dark eyes" |
| Similar to | brunet, brunette |
| Nouns | darkness |
| Meaning | Stemming from evil characteristics or forces. Wicked or dishonorable. |
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| Examples | "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility" |
| Synonyms | black, sinister |
| Similar to | evil |
| Nouns | darkness |
| Meaning | Causing dejection. |
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| Examples | "the dark days of the war"; "a dark gloomy day" |
| Synonyms | blue, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary |
| Similar to | cheerless, uncheerful |
| Meaning | Secret. |
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| Examples | "keep it dark" |
| Similar to | concealed |
| Nouns | darkness |
| Meaning | Showing a brooding ill humor. |
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| Examples | "a dark scowl" |
| Synonyms | dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
| Similar to | ill-natured |
| Adverbs | darkly |
| Meaning | Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture. |
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| Examples | "the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education" |
| Synonyms | benighted |
| Similar to | unenlightened |
| Nouns | darkness |
| Meaning | Marked by difficulty of style or expression. |
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| Examples | "much that was dark is now quite clear to me" |
| Synonyms | obscure |
| Similar to | incomprehensible, uncomprehensible |
| Nouns | darkness |
| Meaning | Having skin rich in melanin pigments. |
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| Examples | "the dark races"; "dark-skinned peoples" |
| Synonyms | colored, coloured, dark-skinned, non-white |
| Similar to | black |
| Nouns | darkness |
| Meaning | Not giving performances. Closed. |
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| Examples | "the theater is dark on Mondays" |
| Similar to | inactive |
| Meaning | Absence of light or illumination. |
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| Synonyms | darkness |
| Contrary | light, lighting |
| Broader | illumination |
| Narrower | night; total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black; blackout, brownout, dimout; semidarkness |
| Meaning | Absence of moral or spiritual values. |
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| Examples | "the powers of darkness" |
| Synonyms | iniquity, wickedness, darkness |
| Broader | condition, status |
| Narrower | foulness |
| Meaning | An unilluminated area. |
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| Examples | "he moved off into the darkness" |
| Synonyms | darkness, shadow |
| Broader | scene |
| Meaning | The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside. |
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| Synonyms | night, nighttime |
| Contrary | day, daytime, daylight |
| Part of | day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day |
| Parts | evening; late-night hour; midnight; small hours; lights-out |
| Broader | time period, period of time, period |
| Narrower | weeknight; wedding night |
| Meaning | An unenlightened state. |
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| Examples | "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness" |
| Synonyms | darkness |
| Broader | unenlightenment |
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