dark
1. absence of light or illumination (Freq. 9)
• Syn:
darkness
• Ant:
light
• Hypernyms:
illumination
• Hyponyms:
night, total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness,
black, blackout, brownout, dimout, semidarkness
2. absence of moral or spiritual values (Freq. 5)
- the powers of darkness
• Syn:
iniquity, wickedness, darkness
• Derivationally related forms:
dark (for: darkness), wicked (for: wickedness)
• Hypernyms:
condition, status
• Hyponyms:
foulness
3. an unilluminated area (Freq. 4)
- he moved off into the darkness
• Syn:
darkness, shadow
• Derivationally related forms:
shadow (for: shadow), dark (for: darkness)
• Hypernyms:
scene
4. the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside (Freq. 3)
• Syn:
night, nighttime
• Ant:
day (for: night)
• Derivationally related forms:
nightly (for: night)
• Hypernyms:
time period, period of time, period
• Hyponyms:
weeknight, wedding night
• Part Holonyms:
day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day
• Part Meronyms:
evening, late-night hour, midnight, small hours, lights-out
5. an unenlightened state (Freq. 2)
- he was in the dark concerning their intentions
- his lectures dispelled the darkness
• Syn:
darkness
• Derivationally related forms:
dark (for: darkness)
• Hypernyms:
unenlightenment
1. devoid of or deficient in light or brightness;
shadowed or black (Freq. 49)
- sitting in a dark corner
- a dark day
- dark shadows
- dark as the inside of a black cat
• Ant:
light
• Similar to:
Acheronian, Acherontic, Stygian, aphotic, black,
pitch-black, pitch-dark, caliginous, Cimmerian, crepuscular, darkened,
darkening, darkling, dim, subdued, dusky, twilight,
twilit, glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky, lightless,
lightless, unlighted, unlit, semidark, tenebrous,
tenebrific, tenebrious
• Derivationally related forms:
darkness
• Attrubites:
light, lightness
2. (used of color) having a dark hue (Freq. 27)
- dark green
- dark glasses
- dark colors like wine red or navy blue
• Ant:
light
• Similar to:
darkish
• See Also:
black
• Derivationally related forms:
darkness
• Attrubites:
value
3. brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes) (Freq. 13)
- dark eyes
• Similar to:
brunet, brunette
• Derivationally related forms:
darkness
4. stemming from evil characteristics or forces;
wicked or dishonorable (Freq. 5)
- black deeds
- a black lie
- his black heart has concocted yet another black deed
- Darth Vader of the dark side
- a dark purpose
- dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility
- "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy
• Syn:
black, sinister
• Similar to:
evil
• Derivationally related forms:
darkness
5. secret
- keep it dark
• Similar to:
concealed
• Derivationally related forms:
darkness
6. showing a brooding ill humor
- a dark scowl
- the proverbially dour New England Puritan
- a glum, hopeless shrug
- he sat in moody silence
- a morose and unsociable manner
- "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven
- a sour temper
- a sullen crowd
• Syn:
dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose,
saturnine, sour, sullen
• Similar to:
ill-natured
• Derivationally related forms:
sullenness (for: sullen), sourness (for: sour), moroseness (for: morose), moodiness (for: moody), glumness (for: glum)
7. lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
- this benighted country
- benighted ages of barbarism and superstition
- the dark ages
- a dark age in the history of education
• Syn:
benighted
• Similar to:
unenlightened
• Derivationally related forms:
darkness
8. marked by difficulty of style or expression
- much that was dark is now quite clear to me
- those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure
• Syn:
obscure
• Similar to:
incomprehensible, uncomprehensible
• Derivationally related forms:
obscurity (for: obscure), obscureness (for: obscure), darkness
9. having skin rich in melanin pigments
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- dark-skinned peoples
• Syn:
colored, coloured, dark-skinned, non-white
• Similar to:
black
• Derivationally related forms:
darkness, colored (for: colored)
10. causing dejection
- a blue day
- the dark days of the war
- a week of rainy depressing weather
- a disconsolate winter landscape
- the first dismal dispiriting days of November
- a dark gloomy day
- grim rainy weather
• Syn:
blue, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy,
grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
• Similar to:
depressing, cheerless, uncheerful
• Derivationally related forms:
dreariness (for: dreary)
11. not giving performances;
closed
- the theater is dark on Mondays
• Similar to:
inactive
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