dark
Meaning of dark
adjective
- Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
The room was too dark for reading.
- (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
my sister's hair is darker than mine; her skin grew dark with a suntan
- Hidden, secret, obscure.
- Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
a dark villain; a dark deed
- Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
the Great Depression was a dark time; the film was a dark psychological thriller
- Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
- With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form or a portion of either.
The ending of this book is rather dark.
- A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
Dark surrounds us completely.
- Ignorance.
The lawyer was left in the dark as to why the jury was dismissed.
- Nightfall.
It was after dark before we got to playing baseball.
- A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
- To grow or become dark, darken.
- To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
- To make dark, darken; to obscure.
Information about dark
- The plural form of dark is: darks.
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Hyphenation of dark
dark
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- dark is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
dark synonyms
Meaning black:
Meaning blue:
blue, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
Meaning dour:
dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
Meaning benighted:
Meaning obscure:
Meaning colored:
Meaning darkness:
Meaning iniquity:
iniquity, wickedness, darkness
Meaning night:
Meaning :
hopeless, negative, pessimistic, unenlightened, deep, dim, hidden, secret, malign
dark antonyms
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Translation of dark
- French: noir, sombre, obscure, obscur, décourageant, morose, lugubre, foncé
- German: dunkel, düster, finster, lichtlos, entmutigen
- Spanish: oscuro, obscuro, oscura, obscura, desconsolado, desconsolada, deprimente, depresivo, depresiva, apesadumbrado, apesadumbrada, lúgubre
- Italian: scuro, buio, oscuro, triste, deprimente, scoraggiante, sconsolante, scontento, fosco, torvo
- Portuguese: escuro, obscuro
Anagrams of dark
Words that rhyme with dark
bedark, predark, semidark, endark, nondark, undark
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