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- 1 Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
"The room was too dark for reading."
- 2 Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.; Extinguished.
"Dark signals should be treated as all-way stop signs."
- 3 Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.; Deprived of sight; blind.
"He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years."
- 4 Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension
- 5 Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
"My sister’s hair is darker than mine."
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- 6 Ambiguously or unclearly expressed.
"What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?"
- 7 Marked by or conducted with secrecy.
"The dark side of the moon."
- 8 Marked by or conducted with secrecy.; Having racing capability not widely known.
"The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse, which had never been thought of, and which the careless [Duke of] St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph."
- 9 Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.
"a dark villain"
- 10 Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
"The Great Depression was a dark time."
- 11 Lacking progress in science or the arts.
"The dark ages began after the collapse of the Roman Empire."
- 12 Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
"September 11, 2001, the day when four terrorist attacks destroyed the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, is often referred to as America’s dark day."
- 13 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.
"The ending of this book is rather dark."
- 14 Off the air; not transmitting.
- 1 not giving performances; closed wordnet
- 2 brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes) wordnet
- 3 devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black wordnet
- 4 causing dejection wordnet
- 5 (used of color) having a dark hue wordnet
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- 6 marked by difficulty of style or expression wordnet
- 7 lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture wordnet
- 8 stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable wordnet
- 9 showing a brooding ill humor wordnet
- 10 secret wordnet
- 1 A surname.
- 1 A complete or (more often) partial absence of light. uncountable, usually
"Dark surrounds us completely."
- 2 an unenlightened state wordnet
- 3 Ignorance. uncountable, usually
"We kept him in the dark."
- 4 an unilluminated area wordnet
- 5 Nightfall. uncountable, usually
"It was after dark before we got to playing baseball."
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- 6 absence of light or illumination wordnet
- 7 A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc. uncountable, usually
"The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights."
- 8 absence of moral or spiritual values wordnet
- 9 the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside wordnet
- 1 To grow or become dark, darken. intransitive
- 2 To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed. intransitive
"To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'."
- 3 To make dark, darken; to obscure. transitive
Etymology
From Middle English derk, from Old English deorc, from Proto-West Germanic *derk (“dark”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg- (“dim, dull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“dull, dirty”).
From Middle English derk, derke, dirke, dyrke, from the adjective (see above), or possibly from an unrecorded Old English *dierce, *diercu (“dark, darkness”).
From Middle English derken, from Old English deorcian, from Proto-West Germanic *derkōn.
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