dark
Adjective
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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 picturessimilar 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
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(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 lighttells us about: value - relative darkness or lightness of a colorsimilar to: darkish - slightly dark
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Brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes) (synset 300246056)
"dark eyes"
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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 -
Secret (synset 302096028)
"keep it dark"similar to: concealed - hidden on any grounds for any motive
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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
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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; ignorantsame as: benighted
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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 understandsame as: obscure
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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"
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Not giving performances;
Closed (synset 300036876)"the theater is dark on Mondays"similar to: inactive - lacking activity; lying idle or unused
Noun
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Absence of light or illumination (synset 114007000)
is a type of: illumination - the degree of visibility of your environmentsubtypes:
- 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 -
Absence of moral or spiritual values (synset 114587156)
"the powers of darkness"subtypes: foulness - disgusting wickedness and immoralitysame as: darkness, wickedness
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An unilluminated area (synset 108663881)
"he moved off into the darkness"is a type of: scene - the place where some action occurs
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The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside (synset 115192074)
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 -
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 understandingsame as: darkness
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