dark

/dˈɑrk/

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Adjective
devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat"
Adjective
(used of color) having a dark hue; "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue"
Adjective Satellite
brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes); "dark eyes"
Adjective Satellite
stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "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
Adjective Satellite
secret; "keep it dark"
Adjective Satellite
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"
Adjective Satellite
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"
Adjective Satellite
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"
Adjective Satellite
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"
Adjective Satellite
having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "dark-skinned peoples"
Adjective Satellite
not giving performances; closed; "the theater is dark on Mondays"
Noun
absence of light or illumination
Noun
absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness"
Noun
an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness"
Noun
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
Noun
an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness"
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light
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