When something's dark, there is no light. Far from the city lights, it gets so dark at night that you can see many stars in the sky.
Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored;
Noun
an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness"
Noun
an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness"
Noun
absence of light or illumination
Noun
absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness"
Noun
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
Adjective S.
not giving performances; closed; "the theater is dark on Mondays"
Adjective S.
having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "the dark races"; "dark-skinned peoples"
Adjective S.
brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes); "dark eyes"
Adjective
devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness; shadowed or black or somber-colored; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "the theater is dark on Mondays"; "dark as the inside of a black cat"
Adjective S.
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
(used of color) having a dark hue; "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue"
Adjective S.
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 S.
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 S.
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 sc
Adjective S.
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
Adjective S.
secret; "keep it dark"; "the dark mysteries of Africa and the fabled wonders of the East"
a.
Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving,
reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some
deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day;
dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion.
a.
Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through;
obscure; mysterious; hidden.
a.
Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual
darkness; unrefined; ignorant.
a.
Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked;
atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.
a.
Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious.
a.
Deprived of sight; blind.
n.
Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is
little or no light.
n.
The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.
n.
A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the
like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.
v. t.
To darken to obscure.
Dark
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverable dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
In the dark and silent grave.2.
The dark problems of existence.
What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain.
What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?3.
The age wherin he lived was dark, but he Cobld not want light who taught the world oto see.
The tenth century used to be reckoned by medi'91val historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night.4.
Left him at large to his own dark designs.5.
More dark and dark our woes.
A deep melancholy took possesion of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature.
There is, in every true woman-s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.6.
He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years.
Dark
Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out.2.
Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark.
Till we perceive by our own understandings, we are as muc in the dark, and as void of knowledge, as before.3.
The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights.
Dark
Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored;
Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.
To darken to obscure.
Usage Examples
An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.
Black beauty - he's a dark horse.
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.
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Other Usage ExamplesA lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.
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