dark
IPA: dˈɑrk
noun
- A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
- (uncountable) Ignorance.
- (uncountable) Nightfall.
- A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To grow or become dark, darken.
- (intransitive) To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
- (transitive) To make dark, darken; to obscure.
adjective
- Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- (of a source of light) Extinguished.
- Deprived of sight; blind.
- Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension: caliginous, darkling, dim, gloomy, lightless, sombre.
- (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
- Ambiguously or unclearly expressed: enigmatic, esoteric, mysterious, obscure, undefined.
- Marked by or conducted with secrecy: hidden, secret; clandestine, surreptitious.
- (gambling, of race horses) Having racing capability not widely known.
- Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.
- Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
- (of a time period) Lacking progress in science or the arts.
- The dark ages began after the collapse of the Roman Empire.
- The Greek Dark Ages began after the Bronze Age collapse.
- 1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning:
- Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
- With emphasis placed on the unpleasant and macabre aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
- (broadcasting, of a television station) Off the air; not transmitting.
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Examples of "dark" in Sentences
- Dusk is the beginning of darkness in the evening.
- He met me halfway, his expression dark with curiosity.
- The black sun is the ultimate power of the dark element.
- The dark of the night makes faraway voices quite nearer.
- The long dark night is waiting to gobble each piece of me.
- The hair of the Lion tailed Macaque is dark brown or black.
- "Dark, dark, and dark-'* Despair swept away before tenderness.
- Being in someone else's prop wash in the dark of night was frightful.
- It finally manages to catch a small carnivore in the dark of the night.
- The fruit is a legume, while the seed is oblong and dark to black in color.
- Their house is filthy and constantly in the dark, with the bulbs painted black.
- The night is starless, with a darkness so enveloping that it seems to possess palpability.
- II. iii.309 (63,9) [To the dark house] The _dark house_ is a house made gloomy by discontent.
- CindyLynn 5:58 pm: I would say Paranormal…also, some editors use the term dark fantasy that could also work.
- He would feel and cry out to her, 'Let me tell you alone, if I must tell it, and _in the dark, in the dark_!' when he could not see the heart-breaking shame grow upon her face, nor see his own guilty face reflected in her eyes.
- ~ Measuring the unseeable: Researchers probe proteins' 'dark energy' -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are the first to observe and measure the internal motion inside proteins, or its dark energy.
- Or when the substances are consumed _as solids_, then the spectral effects are reversed, and the lines that would be dark lines in the luminous colored spectrum become themselves luminous lines on the screen; but these lines hold the same relation in mathematical measurement, etc., as do the _dark_ lines in the colored spectrum.