dark (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 15 senses of the word *dark*:
ADJECTIVE	all	dark	devoid of or deficient in light or brightness
all	dark	(used of color) having a dark hue
all	dark	brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
all	dark, black, sinister	stemming from evil characteristics / characteristics or forces
all	dark	secret
all	dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen	showing a brooding ill humor
all	dark, benighted	lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
all	dark, obscure	marked by difficulty of style or expression
all	dark, blue, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary	causing dejection
all	dark	not giving performances
NOUN	state	dark, darkness	absence of light or illumination
state	dark, wickedness, darkness	absence of moral or spiritual values
location	dark, darkness, shadow	an unilluminated area
time	dark, night, nighttime	the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
cognition	dark, darkness	an unenlightened state

dark > pronunciation
Sounds	daa'rk
Rhymes	aardvark ... watermark: 41 rhymes with aark...

English > *dark*: 15 senses > adjective 1
Meaning	Devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black.
Examples	"sitting in a dark corner" "a dark day" "dark shadows" "dark as the inside of a black cat"
Attribute of	light, lightness	The visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures / pictures
Narrower	Acheronian, Acherontic, Stygian	dark and dismal as of the rivers ... / rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades
	Cimmerian	intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness
	aphotic	lacking light
	black, pitch-black, pitch-dark	Extremely dark
	caliginous	dark and misty and gloomy
	crepuscular	like twilight
	darkened	Become or made dark by lack of light
	darkening	Becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding ... / clouding over
	darkling	(poetic) occurring in the dark / dark or night
	darkling	uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure
	dim, subdued	lacking in light
	dusky, twilight, twilit	lighted by or as if by twilight
	glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky	depressingly dark
	lightless, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit	Without illumination
	semidark	partially devoid of light or brightness
	tenebrous, tenebrific, tenebrious	dark and gloomy
Opposite	light	Characterized by or emitting light
Spanish	obscuro, oscuro
Catalan	fosc, obscur
Nouns	dark	absence of light or illumination
Nouns	darkness, dark	an unilluminated area
Adverbs	darkly	without light

English > *dark*: 15 senses > adjective 2
Meaning	(used of color) having a dark hue.
Examples	"dark green" "dark glasses" "dark colors like wine red or navy blue"
Attribute of	value	relative darkness or lightness of a color
Narrower	darkish	slightly dark
See also	black	Of the achromatic color of maximum darkness
Opposite	light, light-colored	(used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent
Spanish	oscuro
Catalan	fosc, obscur
Nouns	darkness	having a dark or somber color / color

English > *dark*: 15 senses > adjective 3
Meaning	brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes).
Example	"dark eyes"
Broader	brunet, brunette	marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes
Spanish	oscuro
Catalan	fosc, obscur
Nouns	darkness	having a dark or somber color / color

English > *dark*: 15 senses > adjective 4
Meaning	stemming from evil characteristics / characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable.
Examples	"Darth Vader of the dark side" "a dark purpose" "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"
Synonyms	black, sinister
Broader	evil	morally bad or wrong
Spanish	corrupto, negro, obscuro, oscuro, perverso, siniestro
Catalan	negre, obscur
Nouns	darkness, dark	absence of moral or spiritual values

English > *dark*: 15 senses > adjective 5
Meaning	Secret.
Example	"keep it dark"
Broader	concealed	hidden on any grounds for any motive
Nouns	darkness	an unenlightened state

English > *dark*: 15 senses > adjective 6
Meaning	showing a brooding ill humor.
Example	"a dark scowl"
Synonyms	dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
Broader	ill-natured	Having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
Spanish	adusto, agrio, austero, desabrido, hosco, lúgubre, malhumorado, retraïdo, saturnino, sombrío, taciturno
Catalan	adust, agre, auster, esquerp, lúgubre, retret, sorrut, taciturn
Adverbs	darkly	in a dark glowering menacing manner

English > *dark*: 15 senses > adjective 7
Meaning	lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture.
Examples	"the dark ages" "a dark age in the history of education"
Synonym	benighted
Broader	unenlightened	not enlightened
Spanish	bárbaro, ignorante
Nouns	dark, darkness	an unenlightened state

English > *dark*: 15 senses > adjective 8
Meaning	marked by difficulty of style or expression.
Example	"much that was dark is now quite clear to me"
Synonym	obscure
Broader	incomprehensible, uncomprehensible	Difficult to understand
Spanish	obscuro
Nouns	darkness	an unenlightened state

English > *dark*: 15 senses > adjective 9
Meaning	Causing dejection.
Examples	"the dark days of the war" "a dark gloomy day"
Synonyms	blue, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
Broader	depressing, cheerless, uncheerful	Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
Spanish	deprimente, desalentador, desconsolado, macabro, negro, oscuro, triste
Catalan	depriment, desconsolat, descoratjador, macabre, negre, obscur, trist

English > *dark*: 15 senses > adjective 10
Meaning	not giving performances; closed.
Example	"the theater is dark on Mondays"
Broader	inactive	lacking activity

English > *dark*: 15 senses > noun 1, state
Meaning	absence of light or illumination.
Synonym	darkness
Narrower	blackout, brownout, dimout	darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy / enemy aircraft)
	night	darkness
	semidarkness	partial darkness
	total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black	Total absence of light
Broader	illumination	The degree of visibility of your environment
Opposite	light, lighting	Having abundant light or illumination
Spanish	negrura, oscuridad
Catalan	fosca, foscor, obscuritat
Adjectives	dark	devoid of or deficient in light or brightness

English > *dark*: 15 senses > noun 2, state
Meaning	absence of moral or spiritual values.
Example	"the powers of darkness"
Synonyms	wickedness, darkness
Narrower	foulness	disgusting wickedness and immorality
Broader	condition, status	A state at a particular time
Spanish	iniquidad, maldad
Catalan	iniquitat, malvestat
Adjectives	dark	stemming from evil characteristics / characteristics or forces

English > *dark*: 15 senses > noun 3, location
Meaning	An unilluminated area.
Example	"he moved off into the darkness"
Synonyms	darkness, shadow
Broader	scene	The place where some action occurs
Spanish	oscuridad, sombra
Catalan	fosca, foscor, obscuritat
Adjectives	dark	devoid of or deficient in light or brightness

English > *dark*: 15 senses > noun 4, time
Meaning	The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside.
Synonyms	night, nighttime
Part of	day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day	Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
Parts	evening	The early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way
	late-night hour	The latter part of night
	lights-out	A prescribed bedtime
	midnight	12 o'clock at night
	small hours	The hours just after midnight
Narrower	wedding night	The night after the wedding when bride and groom sleep together
Narrower	weeknight	Any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday
Broader	time period, period of time, period	An amount of time
Opposite	day, daytime, daylight	The time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
Spanish	noche, tarde
Catalan	nit

English > *dark*: 15 senses > noun 5, cognition
Meaning	An unenlightened state.
Examples	"he was in the dark concerning their intentions" "his lectures dispelled the darkness"
Synonym	darkness
Broader	unenlightenment	A lack of understanding
Spanish	ignorancia, oscuridad
Catalan	fosca, foscor, ignorància, obscuritat
Adjectives	dark	lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture

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