dark

1. Devoid of or deficient in light or brightness;
   Shadowed or black (synset 300273948)
   "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat"
   tells us about: light, lightness - the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures
   similar to:

   • acheronian, acherontic, stygian - dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades
   • aphotic - lacking light; especially not reached by sunlight
   • black, pitch-black, pitch-dark - extremely dark
   • caliginous - dark and misty and gloomy
   • cimmerian - intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness
   • crepuscular - like twilight; dim
   • darkened - become or made dark by lack of light
   • darkening - becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over
   • darkling - (poetic) occurring in the dark or night
   • darkling - uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure
   • dim, subdued - lacking in light; not bright or harsh
   • dusky, twilight, twilit - lighted by or as if by twilight
   • gloomful, glooming, gloomy, sulky - depressingly dark
   • lightless, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit - without illumination
   • semidark - partially devoid of light or brightness
   • tenebrific, tenebrious, tenebrous - dark and gloomy
2. (used of color) having a dark hue (synset 300410517)
   "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue"
   also: black - being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
   tells us about: value - relative darkness or lightness of a color
   similar to: darkish - slightly dark
3. Brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes) (synset 300246056)
   "dark eyes"
   similar to: brunet, brunette - marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes
4. Stemming from evil characteristics or forces;
   Wicked or dishonorable (synset 301135435)
   "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"
   similar to: evil - morally bad or wrong
   same as: black, sinister
5. Secret (synset 302096028)
   "keep it dark"
   similar to: concealed - hidden on any grounds for any motive
6. Showing a brooding ill humor (synset 301140878)
   "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"; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
   similar to: ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
   same as: dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
7. Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture (synset 300887743)
   "this benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"; "the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education"
   similar to: unenlightened - not enlightened; ignorant
   same as: benighted
8. Marked by difficulty of style or expression (synset 300536470)
   "much that was dark is now quite clear to me"; "those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure"
   similar to: incomprehensible, uncomprehensible - difficult to understand
   same as: obscure
9. Causing dejection (synset 300365961)
   "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"
   similar to: cheerless, depressing, uncheerful - causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
   same as: blue, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry
10. Not giving performances;
    Closed (synset 300036876)
    "the theater is dark on Mondays"
    similar to: inactive - lacking activity; lying idle or unused

1. Absence of light or illumination (synset 114007000)
   is a type of: illumination - the degree of visibility of your environment
   subtypes:

   • night - darkness
   • black, blackness, lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness - total absence of light
   • blackout, brownout, dimout - darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)
   • semidarkness - partial darkness
   same as: darkness
2. Absence of moral or spiritual values (synset 114587156)
   "the powers of darkness"
   is a type of: condition, status - a state at a particular time
   subtypes: foulness - disgusting wickedness and immorality
   same as: darkness, wickedness
3. An unilluminated area (synset 108663881)
   "he moved off into the darkness"
   is a type of: scene - the place where some action occurs
   same as: darkness, shadow
4. The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside (synset 115192074)
   is a type of: period, period of time, time period - an amount of time
   subtypes:

   • weeknight - any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday
   • wedding night - the night after the wedding when bride and groom sleep together
   has:

   • evening - the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way
   • late-night hour - the latter part of night
   • midnight - 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
   • small hours - the hours just after midnight
   • lights-out - a prescribed bedtime
   is a part of: 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours - time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
   same as: night, nighttime
5. An unenlightened state (synset 105997383)
   "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness"
   is a type of: unenlightenment - a lack of understanding
   same as: darkness

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